CLARK

ASHTON
SMITH
Gurrola Rubio Ángel
Beltrán Figueroa Victor Alfonso
Molina Espinoza Axel Rafael
Ley Contreras Ramón
Torres Ortiz Ines
Camou Tautimez Juan Pablo
 WHO WAS HE?
Clark Ashton Smith was an American author,
poet, and artist, known for his contributions to the
genres of weird fiction, fantasy, and horror. He was
a contemporary of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E.
Howard and was part of the "Weird Tales" circle.
Smith's works often featured imaginative and
otherworldly settings, and he created a wide range
of strange and fantastical creatures in his stories.
Some of his notable works include "The City of the
Singing Flame" and "The Dark Eidolon".
 BACKGROUND

He was known for his love Smith's literary career took off
His early years were in the 1920s when he became
of literature, particularly
spent in this rural associated with H.P. Lovecraft
classic and fantastical
region, and he was and Robert E. Howard, and he
works, and began writing
mostly self-educated went on to become a prolific
poetry and fiction at a
through reading his and influential writer of weird
young age.
own interests. and fantasy fiction.
 LITERARY STYLE
The work of Clark Ashton Smith is characterized by the exquisiteness of
his poetic prose and his disturbing and successful macabre
atmosphere, all inherited from the French poet Charles Baudelaire
(1821-1867) and the Symbolist movement.
BOOKS & POEMS
A VINATGE THE CITY OF
THE LAST THE EMPEROR
FROM THE SINGING
INCANTATION OF DREAMS
ANTLANTIS FLAME
IMPACT IN FANTASY GENRE
His poems correspond more to his first period as a narrator, until 1935, later
dedicating himself to short stories and illustration.

Averoigne Zothique Xiccarph

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ecturalia.com. (s. f.). Clark Ashton Smith: Libros y biografía autor.
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Lovecraft, C. T. W. (s. f.). Clark Ashton Smith. Wiki Lovecraft.
https://hplovecraft.fandom.com/es/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith
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