Here again in these sixteen stories are the "gorgeous, luxuriant, and feverishly distorted visions of infinite spheres and multiple dimensions" which have made of Clark Ashton Smith's works something unique in the annals of the macabre. In this collection there are tales of Hyperborea, Zothique, Averoigne, Atlantis, Xiccarph, and other vanished worlds of Smith's unparalleled creation. Here are such unforgettable tales as Vulthoom, The Colossus of Ylourgne, The Charnel God, The Black Abbot of Puthuum, The Weaver in the Vault and others.

Contents

• Genius Loci
• The Willow Landscape
• The Ninth Skeleton
• The Phantoms of the Fire
• Vulthoom
• A Star-Change
• The Primal City
• The Disinterment of Venus
• The Colossus of Ylourgne
• The Satyr
• The Garden of Adompha
• The Charnel God
• The Black Abbot of Puthuum
• The Weaver in the Vault

Note: only 15 stories in collection despite publisher synopsis