Out of Space and Time 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 1942

1942 in literature

The year 1942 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*André Gide leaves France to live in Tunis.*Robertson Davies becomes editor of the Peterborough Examiner.*Thomas Mann emigrates to California....

 and was the third 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...

. 1,054 copies were printed.

The stories for this volume were selected by the author and were considered by him to be his best fantasy and horror stories to date. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of 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 :...

, 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...

, Poseidonis

Atlantis

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

, and 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...

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Contents

Out of Space and Time contains the following tales:

1. "Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy", by August Derleth
   August Derleth
   August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
   
    & Donald Wandrei
   Donald Wandrei
   Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei...
   
   
2. "The End of the Story"
3. "A Rendezvous in Averoigne"
4. "A Night in Malnéant"
5. "The City of the Singing Flame"
6. "The Uncharted Isle"
7. "The Second Interment"
8. "The Double Shadow"
9. "The Chain of Aforgomon"
10. "The Dark Eidolon"
11. "The Last Hieroglyph"
12. "Sadastor
    Sadastor
    "Sadastor" is a short story by the weird fiction author Clark Ashton Smith, first published in 1930 by Weird Tales.-Plot summary:An example of a narrative within a narrative, the frame story begins in Egypt when the "sphinx was young," with an lamia sitting upon a ridge near the Nile River, who,...
    
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13. "The Death of Ilalotha"
14. "The Return of the Sorcerer"
15. "The Testament of Athammaus
    The Testament of Athammaus
    The Testament of Athmmaus is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith that is part of his Hyperborean cycle. It was published in the October 1932 issue of Weird Tales.-Synopsis:...
    
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16. "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
17. "Ubbo-Sathla"
18. "The Monster of Prophecy"
19. "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis"
20. "From the Crypts of Memory"
21. "The Shadows"

Reprints

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