Stories
3 hrs. 27 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Clark Ashton Smith
Author
Clark Ashton Smith
Narrator
Igor Poskryakov
Narrator
Igor Poskryakov
Description
Clark Ashton Smith. A writer recognized in his lifetime—and undeservedly forgotten in our days. A friend and literary fellow traveler of Robert E. Howard, Lovecraft, and Merritt. The creator of "stories" of strange ancient realms from which not even memory remains— not even in myths. A chronicler of the time of great warriors and black magicians, beautiful fighters and sorceresses. A time over which the shadow of Darkness has loomed… One of the creators of classic American fantasy!
Sadastor (1930)
A narration of the long-ago journeys of the demon Sharnadis, who ended up on the dying planet Sadastor. There, amid the dying planet, in the only surviving valley Sharnadis found a drying-up body of water, and within it—Luspiial, a siren that had previously lured and destroyed sailors. Filled with compassion, the demon offers to move the siren to another planet. But the cunning seductress refuses help, preferring to die together with her world...
The Double Shadow (1933)
“My name is Harpetron; that is what they called me in Poseidonia, but not even I myself, the last and best of the disciples of the wise Avictus, know the name of what I am destined to become tomorrow.”
Three years after Harpetron became Avictus’s student, the magician came into possession of a plate covered with strange writings—one that had once belonged to the Snake people. For a long time, the magician tried to read the rows of strange signs. In the end, he succeeded. And although the purpose of the spell cast by the magicians of the Snake tribe remained unclear, Avictus decided to test it. He did not imagine how this experiment would end...
The Beast of Averoigne (1933)
A story of how an ancient ring of the Hyperborean sorcerer Aibon helped the astrologer and magician Luke de Chardonier defeat a predatory vampire that arrived on a comet and descended to Earth each night in search of new victims...
Ubbo-Sathla (1933)
Paul Tregardis bought in an antiquarian shop a dullly shimmering opaque crystal. In Aibon’s Book he had read about it—perhaps this stone once belonged to the Hyperborean magician Zonu Mezamaleh. Within it, the sorcerer contemplated countless images depicting Earth’s past, but almost no information remains about what the magician had seen. Tregardis decided to check whether it really was that very stone...
The Colossus of Ylourgne (1934)
Fleeing persecution by the Inquisition, the alchemist and necromancer Nateri hid, together with his followers, in a province. He is already old, and spends the remains of his fading grandeur on avenging everyone. He raises the dead and plans to build a gigantic golem from their bodies—into which he intends to transfer after his imminent death...
One of Nateri’s former students, Gaspar de Nord, takes up the opposition...
The Epiphany of Death (1934)
Tomeron lived in a half-ruined family mansion outside the city of Ptolemais with two decrepit deaf-mute servants. He moved with a slow, thoughtful gait of a man who lives among memories and dreams, and often talked about people, events, and ideas long forgotten—until one day he asked to be accompanied to the family tomb…
Contents:
Sadastor (1930)
A narration of the long-ago journeys of the demon Sharnadis, who ended up on the dying planet Sadastor. There, amid the dying planet, in the only surviving valley Sharnadis found a drying-up body of water, and within it—Luspiial, a siren that had previously lured and destroyed sailors. Filled with compassion, the demon offers to move the siren to another planet. But the cunning seductress refuses help, preferring to die together with her world...
The Double Shadow (1933)
“My name is Harpetron; that is what they called me in Poseidonia, but not even I myself, the last and best of the disciples of the wise Avictus, know the name of what I am destined to become tomorrow.”
Three years after Harpetron became Avictus’s student, the magician came into possession of a plate covered with strange writings—one that had once belonged to the Snake people. For a long time, the magician tried to read the rows of strange signs. In the end, he succeeded. And although the purpose of the spell cast by the magicians of the Snake tribe remained unclear, Avictus decided to test it. He did not imagine how this experiment would end...
The Beast of Averoigne (1933)
A story of how an ancient ring of the Hyperborean sorcerer Aibon helped the astrologer and magician Luke de Chardonier defeat a predatory vampire that arrived on a comet and descended to Earth each night in search of new victims...
Ubbo-Sathla (1933)
Paul Tregardis bought in an antiquarian shop a dullly shimmering opaque crystal. In Aibon’s Book he had read about it—perhaps this stone once belonged to the Hyperborean magician Zonu Mezamaleh. Within it, the sorcerer contemplated countless images depicting Earth’s past, but almost no information remains about what the magician had seen. Tregardis decided to check whether it really was that very stone...
The Colossus of Ylourgne (1934)
Fleeing persecution by the Inquisition, the alchemist and necromancer Nateri hid, together with his followers, in a province. He is already old, and spends the remains of his fading grandeur on avenging everyone. He raises the dead and plans to build a gigantic golem from their bodies—into which he intends to transfer after his imminent death...
One of Nateri’s former students, Gaspar de Nord, takes up the opposition...
The Epiphany of Death (1934)
Tomeron lived in a half-ruined family mansion outside the city of Ptolemais with two decrepit deaf-mute servants. He moved with a slow, thoughtful gait of a man who lives among memories and dreams, and often talked about people, events, and ideas long forgotten—until one day he asked to be accompanied to the family tomb…
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