The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith)

This series presents Clark Ashton Smith's fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts. The Maze of the Enchanter includes, in chronological order, all of his stories from "The Mandrakes" (February, 1933) to "The Flower-Women" (May, 1935). This volume also features an introduction, and extensive notes on each story. Fantasy,Fiction,Short Stories

This series presents Clark Ashton Smith's fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts.

The Maze of the Enchanter includes, in chronological order, all of his stories from The Mandrakes (February, 1933) to The Flower-Women (May, 1935). This volume also features an introduction, and extensive notes on each story.

Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as "Weird tales", helped define and shape "weird fiction" in the early twentieth century, alongside his contemporaries H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. The stories in this volume are accompanied by detailed background notes from editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, who compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, as well as Smith's own notes and letters. An introduction by Gahan Wilson is aso included The "Maze of the enchanter" is the fourth of five volumes collecting all of Clark Ashton Smith's tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. It includes all of his stories from "The mandrakes" (1932) to "The flower-Women" (1933)