Tales of Science and Sorcery

1964 collection of stories by Clark Ashton Smith

Not to be confused with Science and Sorcery, a 1953 anthology of short stories edited by Garret Ford.

Tales of Science and Sorcery

Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for Tales of Science and Sorcery

Author| Clark Ashton Smith
Cover artist| Frank Utpatel
Language| English
Genre| Fantasy, horror, science fiction
Publisher| Arkham House

Publication date

| 1964
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (hardback)
Pages| 256

Tales of Science and Sorcery is a collection of stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1964 and was the author's fifth collection of stories published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 2,482 copies. The stories were originally published between 1930 and 1958 in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines.

The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Hyperborea, Averoigne and Zothique.

## Contents

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Tales of Science and Sorcery contains the following stories:

* "Clark Ashton Smith: A Memoir", by E. Hoffmann Price
* "Master of the Asteroid"
* "The Seed from the Sepulchre"
* "The Root of Ampoi"
* "The Immortals of Mercury"
* "Murder in the Fourth Dimension"
* "Seedling of Mars" (after a plot by E.M. Johnson)
* "The Maker of Gargoyles"
* "The Great God Awto"
* "Mother of Toads"
* "The Tomb-Spawn"
* "Schizoid Creator"
* "Symposium of the Gorgon"
* "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles"
* "Morthylla"

## Reprints

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* St. Albans, UK: Panther, 1976.

## See also

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* Clark Ashton Smith bibliography

## Sources

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* Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 75–76. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
* Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 42.
* Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 87\. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
* Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 92–93. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

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Works of Clark Ashton Smith

Bibliography
Deities

Short stories|

* "The Black Abbot of Puthuum"
* "The Charnel God"
* "The Dark Eidolon"
* "The Death of Ilalotha"
* "The Empire of the Necromancers"
* "The Isle of the Torturers"
* "The Last Hieroglyph"
* "A Night in Malnéant"
* "The Ninth Skeleton"
* "The Return of the Sorcerer"
* "Sadastor"
* "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
* "The Testament of Athammaus"
* "The Voyage of King Euvoran"
* "The Weaver in the Vault"
* "The Witchcraft of Ulua"
* "Xeethra"

Collections|

* Out of Space and Time
* Lost Worlds
* Genius Loci and Other Tales
* The Dark Chateau
* Spells and Philtres
* The Abominations of Yondo
* Tales of Science and Sorcery
* Poems in Prose
* Other Dimensions
* Zothique
* Hyperborea
* Xiccarph
* Poseidonis
* Selected Poems
* The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
* A Rendezvous in Averoigne
* The Emperor of Dreams
* Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith

Settings|

* Averoigne
* Hyperborea
* Zothique
* Poseidonis

Related|

* Cthulhu Mythos
* Cykranosh
* Philip Hastane
* Tsathoggua

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