Lost Worlds (book)

Infobox Book
name = Lost Worlds
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image_caption = Cover of "Lost Worlds"
author = Clark Ashton Smith
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cover_artist = Burt Trimpey and Clark Ashton Smith
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Fantasy, Horror, Science fiction short story collection
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1944
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 419 pp
isbn = NA
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"Lost Worlds" is a collection of Fantasy, Horror and Science fiction short stories by author Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1944 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House. 2,043 copies were printed.

The stories for this volume were selected by the author. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Hyperborea, Atlantis, Averoigne, Zothique and Xiccarph.

Contents

"Lost Worlds" contains the following tales:

# "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
# "The Door to Saturn"
# "The Seven Geases"
# "The Coming of the White Worm"
# "The Last Incantation"
# "A Voyage to Sfanomoë"
# "The Death of Malygris"
# "The Holiness of Azédarac"
# "The Beast of Averoigne"
# "The Empire of the Necromancers"
# "The Isle of the Torturers"
# "Necromancy in Naat"
# "Xeethra"
# "The Maze of Maal Dweb"
# "The Flower-Women"
# "The Demon of the Flower"
# "The Plutonian Drug"
# "The Planet of the Dead"
# "The Gorgon"
# "The Letter from Mohaun Los"
# "The Light from Beyond"
# "The Hunters from Beyond"
# "The Treader of the Dust"

Reprints

*Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1971.
*St. Albans, UK: Panter, 1974 (2 vols.).
*Lincoln, NE: Bison, 2006.

References

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