Wine from Atlantis. Fantasies, nightmares and mirages. Smith K.E.

The breathtaking unknown planets, which have long disappeared or have not yet arisen, travels between worlds and times, in time and timelessness, fatal forests and deserts, terrible creatures from distant galaxies, demons-priests and demon-studies (guess who is worse ), ancient sorceresses and ambitious necromancers, risking both soul and body, as well as werewolves, vampires, rebellious from the dead, nameless monsters, petrified prehistoric nightmares and life -based stone...

Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) -one of the three pillars of the “strange fantasy” of the 1930s (together with Robert I. Howard, the creator of Konan, and, of course, the creator of the “myths Ktulhu” Howard Phillips Lavkraft, in whose stories the fictions of Smith is now and then), 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 stories of 1925-1931; Most of them are published in updated transfers.