Genius Loci and Other Tales

Genius Loci and Other Tales

Infobox Book
name = Genius Loci and Other Tales
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image_caption = Jacket illustration by Frank Wakefield for "Genius Loci and Other Tales" by Clark Ashton Smith
author = Clark Ashton Smith
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cover_artist = Frank Wakefield
country = United States
language = English
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genre = fantasy, horror, science fiction short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1948
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 228 pp
isbn = NA
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"Genius Loci and Other Tales" is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by author Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1948 and was the author's third book published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 3,047 copies. The stories were written between 1930 and 1935.

The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne and Zothique.

Contents

"Genius Loci and Other Tales" contains the following stories:

# "Genius Loci"
# "The Willow Landscape"
# "The Ninth Skeleton"
# "The Phantoms of the Fire"
# "The Eternal World"
# "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"

Reprints

*Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1972.
*St. Albans, UK: Panther, 1974.

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=34| date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=32 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=49-50 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=68 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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