Poseidonis is a collection of fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 short stories by 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...

, edited by Lin Carter

Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.-Life:Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida...

. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's logo is a...

 as the fifty-ninth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

The Ballantine Adult Fantasy series was an imprint of Ballantine Books. Launched in 1969 , the series reissued a number of works of fantasy literature, which were out of print or dispersed in back issues of pulp magazines , in cheap paperback form—including works...

 in July 1973. It was the fourth themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines in the 1930s and 1940s, notably Weird Tales

Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

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The book collects several prose poems, poems and tales, including stories from the author's Poseidonis

Poseidonis

Poseidonis is an imagined last remnant of the lost continent of Atlantis, detailed in a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith. Smith based Poseidonis on Theosophical scriptures about Atlantis, and his concept of "the last isle of foundering Atlantis" is echoed by the Isle of Meneltarma in...

 cycle, set on a remnant of the lost continent of Atlantis

Atlantis

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

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Contents

• "The Magic of Atlantis: An Introduction", by Lin Carter
  Lin Carter
  Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.-Life:Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida...
  
  
• Poseidonis
• "Editor's Note"
• "The Muse of Atlantis" (prose poem)
• "The Last Incantation"
• "The Death of Malygris"
• "Tolometh" (poem)
• "The Double Shadow"
• "A Voyage to Sfanomoë"
• "A Vintage from Atlantis"
• "Atlantis: a poem" (poem)
• Lemuria
• "Editor's Note"
• "In Lemuria" (poem)
• "An Offering to the Moon"
• "The Uncharted Isle"
• "Lemurienne" (poem)
• Ptolemides
• "Editor's Note"
• "The Epiphany of Death"
• Other Realms
• "Editor's Note"
• "In Cocaigne" (prose poem)
• "Symposium of the Gorgon"
• "The Venus of Azombeii"
• "The Isle of Saturn" (poem)
• "The Root of Ampoi"
• "The Invisible City"
• "Amithaine" (poem)
• "The Willow Landscape"
• "The Shadows" (prose poem)