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The Enchantress of Sylaire

The Enchantress of Sylaire is a good short story not only because of its visual language, but especially because of its moral register and effect; teaching us that true distinctions between Good or Evil not only transcend names, places, and titles, but also how something looks, and even the ontological reality of a being (human or monster?). This is in great contrast to today's paint-by-numbers morality, where someone labeled a certain name is evil, no matter of their actual behavior or intentions. Here Smith asks instead, 'but how do they treat you'?

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Illustration by Itsuko Azuma

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Rendezvous in Averoigne by Les Edwards

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Averoigne (2018) - Santiago Caruso

Illustration for the tale by Clark Ashton Smith

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"...Indeed, it were well that none should believe the story: for thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of Earth."

Clark Ashton Smith, "The Beast of Averoigne," 1933.

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The CAS Re-Read 2: The Colossus of Ylourgne

We are still in Averoigne for the second story in our brief exploration of Clark Ashton Smith’s stories. This is not a scientific or literate investigation – we just picked three stories each, me and my friend Germano, three of the stories we like the best. The Colossus of Ylourgne is the second title on Germano’s hit list. The story was published in the June 1934 issue of Weird Tales.CAS’ story…

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