Out of Space and Time and Lost Worlds by Clark Ashton Smith



“Jeff VanderMeer, who introduces the Nebraska reprints of Smith’s first two major collections of stories, admits to a love-hate relationship with the writer, largely because of his overlush and ‘hyperelevated’ style. And yet without it, Smith couldn’t create the dark beauty and alluring otherness of his best work. If you’ve never read Clark Ashton Smith before, start with either the collection A Rendezvous in Averoigne or the reissues of Out of Space and Time and Lost Worlds.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World