| Re: Algernon Blackwood and Clark Ashton Smith Hmm.Have read many of CAS's stories and have been fascinated by them. Only one of the versions of "The monster of the prophesy",seemed a tad predictable, though a certain image of something coming from the comet was realy worth it."The treader of the dust" is my favourite.Haven't read Ubbo-Sathla yet,-then its "The city of the singing flame"
,"The abominations of Yondo", "The chain of aforgomon","The charnel god", "The collossus of Ylourgne","The Empire of Necromancers","The dark age", "the dark eidolon".
Am planing to read "The dweller in the gulf" at a near time.
Now,I had some beef with "The comming of the white worm"-its a wonderfully writen story and surly far bter handeled then Stoker's tale of a similar name, however,the reason behind the disapearances was again a tad bit predictable.
Of Blackwood I have read not as much.But I have to say "A psychical invasion", though its lengthy in the coming of the tru weirdness,has a superb ending and Silence's description of the spiritual "gulf" or whichever term he used,left a lasting impersion,it was too bad not more was writen around it in the story.
The other story of his I read was "Secret Worship",which was a very briliant story indeed-nearly flawless.
"The willows" and "Ancinet sorceries" are on my to-read list,but anyone know of any good short fiction of his aside from the most noted?I tried something random and,to be honest,"A haunted isle" kinda got ruined by the ending and not building up on some points. |