tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post111093790765370981..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Zombies From the Pulps!: The Empire of the Necromancers - Clark Ashton SmithJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-77559098544232473072021-05-05T19:13:15.064-05:002021-05-05T19:13:15.064-05:00Not all zombies are bad guys, sometimes.......they...Not all zombies are bad guys, sometimes.......they are victims. On other hand, the friendly zombie is an old concept. Some british revenants, like Grace Connor, La Santa CompaƱia, some vetalas, the draugr Thorgunna, or the rusalkas, are good examples.megaraptor97https://www.blogger.com/profile/13627905934912475452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-79573058839976812202014-05-28T22:19:58.757-05:002014-05-28T22:19:58.757-05:00Thanks for the comments, guys. Walker, I ordered T...Thanks for the comments, guys. Walker, I ordered THE DARK EIDOLON, too, but I got the Kindle edition. John, I think "The Charnel God" is in that collection, so I'll be reading it. Chap, I thought WITCHERY was excellent. Victorian Barbarian, I miss the days when you could go into stores like Readers World and find so much great stuff. By the way, I saw your comment on the earlier post and meant to respond. We may well have been buying books in Readers World at the same time and never knew it!James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-73311446699653660932014-05-28T17:01:51.489-05:002014-05-28T17:01:51.489-05:00I started reading CAS back in the old Ballantine A...I started reading CAS back in the old Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperback collections, some of them bought, I think, from Linda Saunders at Readers World in Denton in the early 1970's.Victorian Barbarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16996053716446191390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-1423805811751598062014-05-28T15:17:24.761-05:002014-05-28T15:17:24.761-05:00CAS is one of my favorites among the WT writers, t...CAS is one of my favorites among the WT writers, too. I do agree that his style tends to "show not tell." When I wrote my semi-pastiche <i>Black Art in Vyones</i>, I had to consciously depart from what I considered a reflection of CAS's times to introduce more dialogue, more action and a little more pace in the storytelling. The collection in which my story appears,<i> Witchery: A Duo of Weird Tales</i>, seemed to satisfy Amazon Kindle customers! Chap O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404176810063857291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-80972494082708164262014-05-28T13:28:10.199-05:002014-05-28T13:28:10.199-05:00Hey James, I'd suggest, if I could, that you s...Hey James, I'd suggest, if I could, that you seek out Smith's short story, The Charnel God.<br /><br />It's a really ripping yarn that first showed up in the March, 1934issue of Weird Tales. It's got enough dark action that I can easily imagine REH reading it with approval.<br /><br />John HockingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-19084533751059553322014-05-28T10:23:34.495-05:002014-05-28T10:23:34.495-05:00I recently reread some Smith. Very interesting stu...I recently reread some Smith. Very interesting stuff. Not as high octane as Howard, which makes him not so enjoyable to me, but incredible vocabulary and description.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-80487690578335873642014-05-28T09:34:36.029-05:002014-05-28T09:34:36.029-05:00The recent collection of Smith's work that I m...The recent collection of Smith's work that I mentioned in my comment above, is THE DARK EIDOLON AND OTHER FANTASIES. Believe or not, the collection is a Penquin Classic, which shows the respect that Smith is getting nowadays.<br /><br />It is around 400 pages and has notes and comments about his fiction and poetry. Amazon.com has it discounted at only $12.32. A must buy for lovers of the bizarre and unusual and even though I have the stories in my SF and WEIRD TALES collections, I also have ordered THE DARK EIDOLON.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-81833616328948337932014-05-28T07:37:59.952-05:002014-05-28T07:37:59.952-05:00I'm re-reading the Zothique stories right now ...I'm re-reading the Zothique stories right now and enjoying them more than the first time through.<br />He is wordy, but unlike Lovecraft, who always sounds more like a 20th century version of Machen, Chambers, or Bierce, Smith always sounds like a translation of Homer from the original Greek, or Gilgamesh read straight from a cuneiform tablet or something...he has the unique abilitiy to make words you're not even familiar enough with to be able to pronounce sound hauntingly familiar.<br />CAS is a totally different kind of a thing from Howard or C.L. Moore or Jack Williamson, but in a good way...makes my brain all tingly!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407570655708987214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-48016838319463753932014-05-28T07:04:03.239-05:002014-05-28T07:04:03.239-05:00I like Clark Ashton Smith's horror stories, es...I like Clark Ashton Smith's horror stories, especially the Zothique series, all of which I found to be excellent. His style is certainly different and the creepy atmosphere of horror in a world where magic works is outstanding.<br /><br />A couple months ago, a major publisher released a paperback collection of some of his best work, so Smith is still undergoing a revival that keeps him a member of WEIRD TALES big three.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com