Lost Worlds is a collection of Fantasy, Horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 and Science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 short stories

Short Stories

Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

 by author Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...

. It was released in 1944

1944 in literature

The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*Samuel Hopkins Adams – Canal Town*Jorge Amado – Terras do Sem Fim *Saul Bellow – Dangling Man*Jorge Luis Borges – Fictions...

 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. 2,043 copies were printed.

The stories for this volume were selected by the author. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Hyperborea

Hyperborean cycle

The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea . Various elements in Smith's cycle have been borrowed by H. P. Lovecraft, most notably the "toad-god" Tsathoggua...

, Atlantis

Atlantis

Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....

, Averoigne

Averoigne

Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith. Smith based Averoigne on the actual province of Auvergne.- History :...

, Zothique

Zothique

Zothique is an imagined future continent featured in a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith. Zothique is also the title of the cycle of tales which take place there. In terms of number and extent, the Zothique cycle is the largest collection of stories written by Smith...

 and Xiccarph.

Contents

Lost Worlds contains the following tales:

1. "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
   The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
   "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" is a short story written in 1929 by Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Hyperborean cycle, and first published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales...
   
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2. "The Door to Saturn"
3. "The Seven Geases"
4. "The Coming of the White Worm"
5. "The Last Incantation"
6. "A Voyage to Sfanomoë"
7. "The Death of Malygris"
8. "The Holiness of Azédarac"
9. "The Beast of Averoigne"
10. "The Empire of the Necromancers"
11. "The Isle of the Torturers"
12. "Necromancy in Naat"
13. "Xeethra"
14. "The Maze of Maal Dweb"
15. "The Flower-Women"
16. "The Demon of the Flower"
17. "The Plutonian Drug"
18. "The Planet of the Dead"
19. "The Gorgon"
20. "The Letter from Mohaun Los"
21. "The Light from Beyond"
22. "The Hunters from Beyond"
23. "The Treader of the Dust"

Reprints

• Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1971.
• St. Albans, UK: Panter, 1974 (2 vols.).
• Lincoln, NE: Bison, 2006.