Hyperborea (collection)

Infobox Book |
name = Hyperborea
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image_caption = Cover of "Hyperborea"
author = Clark Ashton Smith
cover_artist = Bill Martin
country = United States
language = English
series = Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
genre = Fantasy short stories
publisher = Ballantine Books
release_date = 1971
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = xvi, 203 pp
isbn = ISBN 0345022068
preceded_by = Zothique
followed_by = Xiccarph

"Hyperborea" is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-ninth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1971. It was the second themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, notably "Weird Tales".

The book collects one prose poem and fourteen tales of the author's Hyperborean cycle, set on a prehistoric lost northern continent Smith named for the mythological land of Hyperborea, with an introduction and map by Carter. One story from the sequence, the fragment "The House of Haon-Dor," is omitted. The editor also includes in the collection four additional tales of Smith's from what he took to be a similar but more fragmentary sequence of stories.

Contents

*"Introduction" (Lin Carter)
*"Hyperborea":*"The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem):*"The Seven Geases":*"The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan":*"The White Sybil":*"The Testament of Athammaus":*"The Coming of the White Worm":*"Ubbo-Sathla":*"The Door to Saturn":*"The Ice-Demon":*"The Tale of Satampra Zeiros":*"The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles"
*"The World's Rim":*"The Abominations of Yondo":*"The Desolation of Soom":*"The Passing of Aphrodite":*"The Memnons of the Night"
*"Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle", by Lin Carter