Page "Clark Ashton Smith" Paragraph 1

Smith was one of " the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions.

( It has been said of him that " Nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse.

") He was a member of the Lovecraft circle, ( Smith's literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937 ).

His work is marked chiefly by an extraordinarily wide and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor.