Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. Together with H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was one of the 'Three Musketeers' of legendary Weird Tales magazine, and contributed some of the most distinctive (and controversial) fantastic fiction to ever appear in Hugo Gernsback's Wonder Stories. His 'City of the Singing Flame' and 'Vaults of Yoh-Vombis' are acknowledged classics in the field, but represe