{"id":64832,"date":"2024-07-15T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=64832"},"modified":"2024-07-14T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T21:49:15","slug":"64832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/64832\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Hyperborea’ tales by Clark Ashton Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

New on Archive.org, a collection of the strongly Lovecraft-influenced ‘Hyperborea’ tales<\/a> by Clark Ashton Smith. This has the same cover as the early 1970s 95-cent U.S. Ballantine paperback, but this new upload is probably to be avoided. Because I immediately randomly spotted a typo at the start of a story: the German “die” for “the”.<\/p>\n

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Better, then, to look for these Lovecraft-influenced cycle of tales among the free texts kindly placed online by Will Murray and made from good corrected texts. These are freely available as HTML pages<\/a>. Although one has to already know the list of Hyperborean titles and then hunt for them among what is an A-Z list. <\/p>\n

So, to save people some time, here is my quick linked contents-list. The links lead to the HTML-format stories which make up the Murray-edited The Book of Hyperborea<\/em> (Necronomicon Press, 1996). The listing below is in the same order as the book’s contents…<\/p>\n

Introduction to ‘The Book of Hyperborea’, by Will Murray<\/a> *<\/p>\n

The Tale of Satampra Zeiros<\/a><\/p>\n

The Muse of Hyperborea<\/a> [Fragment, not linked in the A-Z, but it is online] *<\/p>\n

The Door to Saturn<\/a><\/p>\n

The Testament of Athammaus<\/a><\/p>\n

The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan<\/a><\/p>\n

Ubbo-Sathla<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ice-Demon<\/a><\/p>\n

The White Sybil<\/a><\/p>\n

The House of Haon-Dor (Fragment)<\/a> *<\/p>\n

The Coming of the White Worm<\/a><\/p>\n

The Seven Geases<\/a><\/p>\n

Lament for Vixeela<\/a> [Poem, not linked in the A-Z, but it is online] *<\/p>\n

The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles<\/a><\/p>\n

[The Coming of the White Worm (Abridged)<\/a>] *<\/p>\n

Postscript by Will Murray<\/a> *<\/p>\n

Altogether, a relatively short collection by modern triple-decker doorstop standards, at around 70,000 words in total including introduction and postscript.<\/p>\n

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Audiobook? Yes. The tales above can now be found as a free HorrorBabble audiobook playlist The Hyperborean Cycle<\/a> on YouTube. Around seven hours. This playlist lacks only the above-starred (*) fragments, poem, and introduction \/ postscript. <\/p>\n

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Note that the early 1970s Ballantine book (mentioned at the start of this post) also had…<\/p>\n

* Hyperborea (simple map).<\/p>\n

* About Hyperborea and Clark Ashton Smith: Behind the North Wind (essay by Lin Carter).<\/p>\n

[the core stories, then to finish]<\/p>\n

* The Abominations of Yondo<\/a> (story)
\n* The Desolation of Soom<\/a> (fragment)
\n* The Passing of Aphrodite<\/a> (fragment)
\n* The Memnons of the Night<\/a> (fragment)<\/p>\n

Of these additional four however, Carter was unsure if they belonged… “I have the feeling that the short tales which follow are the surviving fragments of yet another such cycle: one which was abandoned, or left undeveloped, for some reason we can only conjecture. I may be wrong in this assumption.”<\/p>\n

* Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle (essay by Lin Carter) — I. The Genesis of the Cycle, II. The Sequence of the Hyperborean Stories, III. The Geography of the Cycle. <\/p>\n

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For further tales by others see A Hyperborean Glossary by Laurence J. Cornford<\/a>, which is an A-Z and its front page lists the additional sources — tales ‘finished’ later by Lin Carter but apparently based on work or notes by CAS (?), plus various Hyperborea related\/set tales by others. Many of these appear to be collected in Robert M. Price’s Book of Eibon<\/a><\/em> along with what looks like an expanded map.<\/p>\n

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More recently there was also a substantial 2013 anthology, containing the work of some notable modern writers, titled Deepest, Darkest Eden, The New Tales of Hyperborea<\/em>. I see this now has an affordable Kindle ebook<\/a> on Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New on Archive.org, a collection of the strongly Lovecraft-influenced ‘Hyperborea’ tales by Clark Ashton Smith. This has the same cover …<\/p>\n

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