Labyrinth sorcerer. Faces, dreams and chimeras. Smith K.E.

On the last continent of the Earth under a decrepit, but still despotistical sun, necromancy flourishes, the god of death rules alive, mummies rebel against those who revived them, and the revenge of the sorcerer is nothing in comparison with the revenue of the gods. On the prehistoric continent of the Earth, mysterious white siblla predicts disasters, and cruel demons lurk in the thickness of the glaciers. In medieval France, a monster-gourmet comes from a comet, an ancient statue knocks down the monks from the path of the true one, and the sorcerer-linubicated and wise sorceress receive on their affairs.

On the modern land, the collector of the strange irrevocably plunges at the time that preceded primitive, the traveler burns in an alien fire, which appeared from ancient times, and demons of unfinished stories avenge the too self -critical writer. Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) is one of the three pillars of the “strange science fiction” of the 1930s (together with Robert I. Howard, the creator of Konan, and, of course, the creator of the “myths of Kntulhu” Howard Phillips Lovecraft, in whose stories the fiction of Smith is then And the case is guest), the follower of Edgar Allan PO and Ambrose Birs. He re -melted science fiction in the last fire of romantic poetry and reached the new limits of genuine horror - so the world found out what endless horizons are able to open before us and the horror, and Smith owe a lot to Ray Bradbury, and Clive Barker, and Stephen King.

This collection presents the works of 1932-1935, the period of stormy heyday of Smith as a narrator, as well as his less numerous later texts; Most stories here are published in new translations.