I see Wildside now has an affordable $5 Kindle ebook edition of Clark Ashton Smith: A Critical Guide to the Man and His Work. This is the second edition of Summer 2013, said to have been lightly corrected by the author Steve Behrends for errors of fact. Though he was not in a position to take account of the wealth of new Smith scholarship, new critical editions and letters published after 1985.

It’s well thought-of and looks like it could use a review on the Wildside Press site, where at present it has none.

I’ve now heard the Harlan Ellison reading of Smith’s “The City of the Singing Flame” and sequel, and am duly impressed. Slightly over-written and with some of the early “cosmic” dabs rather forced, but a very enjoyable listen and… somewhat like an 80-minute audio version of one of the less convoluted graphic novels of Moebius.