I’ve been having a quick look at which stories might be relevant to Lovecraft’s own mythos (rather than to the later expansions of the Mythos) in the fiction of Clark Ashton Smith. So far as I can tell the most substantially Lovecraft-relevant stories are…
The Return of the Sorcerer
The Nameless Offspring
Ubbo-Sathla
The Holiness of Azederac
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
I also read that the following are Lovecraftian in tone or approach…
The Hunters from Beyond
The Coming of the White Worm
The Dark Eidolon
The Dweller in the Gulf
The Plutonian Drug
The Treader in the Dust
The Seven Geases
The City of the Singing Flame
The Abominations of Yondo
The Eternal World
Xeethra
The Epiphany of Death
A Star-Change
But then I was confused by finding a list of the contents of Robert Price’s The Klarkashton Cycle (his Chaosium collection of mythos-related stories of Clark Ashton Smith) (Thanks to Matthew T. Carpenter for the listing and notes on the versions and titles)…
The Ghoul
A Rendering from the Arabic (alternate version of The Return of the Sorcerer)
The Hunters from Beyond
The Vaults of Abomi (alternate version of The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis)
The Nameless Offspring
Ubbo-Sathla
The Werewolf of Averoigne (alternate version of The Beast of Averoigne)
The Eidolon of the Blind (alternate version of The Dweller in the Gulf)
Vulthoom
The Treader of the Dust
The Infernal Star (fragment)
For someone not really familiar with Clark Ashton Smith’s work this is confusing, and I wonder if the Chaosium collection was distorted (use of alt. versions, re-titling, etc) because of copyright restrictions? Or did it perhaps venture beyond the original Lovecraft mythos in scope (I’ve never seen mention of Smith’s werewolf stories as mythos)?
Am I right in thinking that there’s really not yet been a definitive book collection of the Smith stories which have more than a brief “mentioned in passing” relation to Lovecraft’s fiction?