Zothique

So incredibly excessive, but so wonderful all the same. Smith, a poet by trade, has a way with words which he may go a bit far with, but it's all in the name of vivid, evocative madness. These stories are from an old and dying world, drenched in wickedness and ancient gods. Somewhat in the vein of

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Lovecraft (and they walked in the same circles, Smith writing sometimes in the Lovecraft canon), but more fantastic and less horrific. Ashton Smith's fantastic poetry (collected in The Last Oblivion) is... interesting, if nothing else.

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