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68-637: Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. Naphtaly Kuttner (1829–1903) and Amelia Bush (c. 1834–1911), the parents of his father, the bookseller Henry Kuttner (1863–1920), had come from Leszno in Prussia and lived in San Francisco since 1859; the parents of his mother, Annie Levy (1875–1954), were from Great Britain. Henry Kuttner's great-grandfather was the scholar Josua Heschel Kuttner . Kuttner grew up in relative poverty following

136-743: A boulder to the immediate west of where his childhood home (destroyed by fire in 1957) stood; some were also scattered in a stand of blue oaks near the boulder. There was no marker. Plaques recognizing Smith have been erected at the Auburn Placer County Library in 1985 and in Bicentennial Park in Auburn in 2003. Bookseller Roy A. Squires was appointed Smith's "west coast executor", with Jack L. Chalker as his "east coast executor". Squires published many letterpress editions of individual Smith poems. Smith's literary estate

204-642: A coronary attack. Aged 61, he married Carol(yn) Jones Dorman on November 10, 1954. Dorman had much experience in Hollywood and radio public relations. After honeymooning at the Smith cabin, they moved to Pacific Grove, California , where he set up a household including her three children from a previous marriage. For several years he alternated between the house on Indian Ridge and their house in Pacific Grove. Smith having sold most of his father's tract, in 1957

272-487: A decade. In his later youth, Smith met Sterling through a member of the local Auburn Monday Night Club, where Smith read several of his poems with considerable success. On a month-long visit to Sterling in Carmel, California , Smith was introduced by Sterling to the poetry of Charles Baudelaire . He became Sterling's protégé and Sterling helped him to publish his first volume of poems, The Star-Treader and Other Poems , at

340-723: A few lesser-known deities to the Mythos, including Iod ("The Secret of Kralitz"), Vorvadoss ("The Eater of Souls"), the Hydra and Nyogtha ("The Salem Horror"). Critic Shawn Ramsey suggests that Abigail Prinn, the villain of "The Salem Horror", might have been intended by Kuttner to be a descendant of Ludvig Prinn , author of De Vermis Mysteriis —a book that appears in Kuttner's "The Invaders". Etchings and Odysseys No 4 (1984), edited by Eric A. Carlson, John J. Koblas and R. Alain Everts,

408-431: A hundred short stories between 1929 and 1934, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction. Like Lovecraft, he drew upon the nightmares that had plagued him during youthful spells of sickness. Brian Stableford has written that the stories written during this brief phase of hectic productivity "constitute one of the most remarkable oeuvres in imaginative literature". He published at his own expense

476-503: A member of a "Smith" circle as Smith was a member of a Lovecraft one. In 1920 Smith composed a celebrated long poem in blank verse , The Hashish Eater, or The Apocalypse of Evil , published in Ebony and Crystal (1922). This was followed by a fan letter from H. P. Lovecraft , which was the beginning of 15 years of friendship and correspondence. With studied playfulness, Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's coinages of place names and

544-467: A self-directed course of literature, including Robinson Crusoe , Gulliver's Travels , the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d'Aulnoy , the Arabian Nights and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe . He read an unabridged dictionary word for word, studying not only the definitions of the words but also their etymology . The other main course in Smith's self-education was to read

612-517: A short period of time: Robert E. Howard 's death by suicide (1936), Lovecraft's death from cancer (1937) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted. As a result, he withdrew from the scene, marking the end of Weird Tales ' s Golden Age . He began sculpting and resumed the writing of poetry. However, Smith was visited by many writers at his cabin, including Fritz Leiber , Rah Hoffman , Francis T. Laney and others. In 1942, three years after August Derleth founded Arkham House for

680-470: A sort of incantation." Smith was born January 13, 1893, in Long Valley, Placer County, California , into a family of English and New England heritage. He spent most of his life in the small town of Auburn, California , living in a cabin built by his parents, Fanny and Timeus Smith. Smith professed to hate the town's provincialism but rarely left it until he married late in life. His formal education

748-614: A volume containing six of his best stories, The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies , in an edition of 1000 copies printed by the Auburn Journal . The theme of much of his work is egotism and its supernatural punishment; his weird fiction is generally macabre in subject matter, gloatingly preoccupied with images of death, decay and abnormality. Most of Smith's weird fiction falls into four series set variously in Hyperborea , Poseidonis , Averoigne and Zothique . Hyperborea, which

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816-504: Is a historic city in western Poland , seat of Leszno County within the Greater Poland Voivodeship . It is the seventh-largest city in the province with an estimated population of 62,200, as of 2021. The city's unrecorded history dates to the 13th century. It was first mentioned in historical documents in 1393, when the estate was the property of a noble named Stefan Karnin- Wieniawa . The family eventually adopted

884-454: Is a lost continent of the Miocene period, and Poseidonis, which is a remnant of Atlantis, are much the same, with a magical culture characterized by bizarreness, cruelty, death and postmortem horrors. Averoigne is Smith's version of pre-modern France, comparable to James Branch Cabell 's Poictesme. Zothique exists millions of years in the future. It is "the last continent of earth, when the sun

952-642: Is dim and tarnished". These tales have been compared to the Dying Earth sequence of Jack Vance . In 1933 Smith began corresponding with Robert E. Howard , the Texan creator of Conan the Barbarian . From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met. The writer of oriental fantasies E. Hoffmann Price

1020-465: Is marked by an extraordinarily rich and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor. Of his writing style, Smith stated: "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like

1088-581: Is represented by his stepson, Prof William Dorman, director of CASiana Literary Enterprises. Arkham House owns the copyright to many Smith stories, though some are now in the public domain. For 'posthumous collaborations' of Smith (stories completed by Lin Carter), see the entry on Lin Carter . While Smith was always an artist who worked in several very different media, it is possible to identify three distinct periods in which one form of art had precedence over

1156-428: Is the only man known to have met all three in the flesh. Critic Steve Behrends has suggested that the frequent theme of 'loss' in Smith's fiction (many of his characters attempt to recapture a long-vanished youth, early love, or picturesque past) may reflect Smith's own feeling that his career had suffered a "fall from grace": Smith's late teens and early twenties had certainly been a heady period: he'd been taken under

1224-539: The Arabian Nights , like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe , are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford 's Vathek . When he was 15, Smith read George Sterling 's fantasy-horror poem " A Wine of Wizardry " in a national magazine (which he later described as "In the ruck of magazine verse it was like finding a fire-opal of

1292-674: The Arkham House imprint, but kept postponing them." A friend of Lovecraft's as well as of Clark Ashton Smith , Kuttner contributed several stories to the Cthulhu Mythos genre, based on the writing of the former and added to, among other authors, by the latter. Among these were "The Secret of Kralitz" (Weird Tales, October 1936), "The Eater of Souls" ( Weird Tales , January 1937), "The Salem Horror" ( Weird Tales , May 1937), "The Invaders" ( Strange Stories , February 1939) and "The Hunt" ( Strange Stories , June 1939). Kuttner added

1360-572: The Napoleonic Wars , in 1815 the town was reannexed by Prussia, initially as part of the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Posen . The town was subjected to Germanisation policies. Nevertheless, Polish press was issued in the town ( Przyjaciel Ludu ) and in the 1840s, Polish historian, geographer and former officer Stanisław Plater published the Mała Encyklopedia Polska  [ pl ] ("Little Polish Encyclopedia"), one of

1428-672: The Ogniwo and Świt organizations, the secret youth organization Tajna Siódemka and structures of the Polish Underground State . Polish underground press was printed in Leszno. The German occupation ended in 1945, and the town returned to Poland. The pre-war monument of the Greater Poland insurgents was restored in 1957. The town underwent a period of fast development especially between 1975 and 1998 when it

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1496-586: The 18th century and Kings Augustus II the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often traveled that route. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Leszno was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia , within which it was referred to as Lissa . In 1807 it was taken by Napoleon's Grand Armee and included within the newly established but short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw . Following Napoleon's defeat in

1564-567: The 1973 Lancer Books edition, Moore stated that Kuttner wrote all the Gallegher stories himself. Marion Zimmer Bradley is among many authors who have cited Kuttner as an influence. Her novel The Bloody Sun is dedicated to him. Roger Zelazny has talked about the influence of The Dark World on his Amber series. Kuttner's friend Richard Matheson dedicated his 1954 novel I Am Legend to Kuttner, with thanks for his help and encouragement. Ray Bradbury has said that Kuttner actually wrote

1632-469: The Arabian Nights. Later, he wrote long adventure novels dealing with Oriental life. By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002. Another juvenile novel was written in his teenaged years: The Sword of Zagan (unpublished until 2004). Like The Black Diamonds , it uses a medieval , Arabian Nights -like setting, and

1700-694: The Bohemian Protestants, in addition to weavers from nearby Silesia , helped the settlement to grow. In 1547 it became a town by a privilege according to Magdeburg Law granted by King Sigismund I of Poland . Leszno was a private town , administratively located in the Wschowa County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province . Leszno became the largest printing center in Greater Poland thanks to

1768-607: The Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Additional writers influenced by Smith include Leigh Brackett , Harlan Ellison , Stephen King , Fritz Lieber , George R. R. Martin , and Donald Sidney-Fryer . Smith

1836-463: The Mythos is a collection of Kuttner's Cthulhu Mythos stories edited by Robert M. Price (Chaosium, 1995). (It also contains three additional tales concerning 'Iod's dread tome' by Robert Bloch , Lin Carter and Robert M. Price ). The Kuttner stories included are: "The Secret of Kralitz", "The Eater of Souls", "The Salem Horror", "The Jest of Droom-Avesta", "Spawn of Dagon", "The Invaders", "The Frog", "Hydra", "Bells of Horror" and "The Hunt" - thus, all

1904-537: The Mythos stories which had appeared in the special Kuttner issue of Crypt of Cthulhu , plus "Spawn of Dagon" and "The Invaders". The story "The Black Kiss" (printed here, as often elsewhere, under the joint byline of Kuttner and Robert Bloch), was in fact written entirely by Bloch; Bloch co-credited Kuttner on the tale due to using the character Michael Leigh from "The Salem Horror". "Beneath the Tombstone" by Robert M. Price and "Dead of Night" by Lin Carter round out

1972-531: The Titans in a potato bin") and decided he wanted to become a poet. At age 17, he sold several tales to The Black Cat , a magazine which specialized in unusual tales. He also published some tales in the Overland Monthly in this brief foray into fiction which preceded his poetic career. However, it was primarily poetry that motivated the young Smith and he confined his efforts to poetry for more than

2040-539: The activity of the Protestant community. Their numbers grew with the inflow of refugees from Silesia, Bohemia , and Moravia during the Thirty Years War . In 1631, Leszno was vested with further privileges by King Sigismund III Vasa , who made it equal with the most important cities of Poland such as Kraków , Gdańsk and Warsaw . By the 17th century, the town had a renowned Gymnasium (school), which

2108-511: The age of 19. Smith received international acclaim for the collection. The Star-Treader was received very favorably by American critics, one of whom named Smith "the Keats of the Pacific". Smith briefly moved among the circle that included Ambrose Bierce and Jack London , but his early fame soon faded away. A little later, Smith's health broke down and for eight years his literary production

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2176-569: The complete 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica at least twice. Smith later taught himself French and Spanish to translate verse out of those languages, including works by Gérard de Nerval , Paul Verlaine , Amado Nervo , Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and all but 6 of Charles Baudelaire 's 157 poems in The Flowers of Evil . His first literary efforts, at the age of 11, took the form of fairy tales and imitations of

2244-507: The death of his father. As a young man he worked in his spare time for the literary agency of his uncle, Laurence D'Orsay (in fact his first cousin by marriage), in Los Angeles before selling his first story, " The Graveyard Rats ", to Weird Tales in early 1936. It was while working for the d'Orsay agency that Kuttner picked Leigh Brackett 's early manuscripts off the slush pile; it was under his tutelage that she sold her first story (to John W. Campbell at Astounding Stories ). Kuttner

2312-519: The fame that should have been his. "I have often wondered why Kuttner chose to hide his talents behind so many false faces for no editorial reason... Admittedly, the fun is in pretending to be someone else. But Kuttner cheated himself of much fame that he richly deserved by hiding his light under a bushel of pen names that many fans did not know were his. Seabury Quinn and I both chided him about this." According to J. Vernon Shea , August Derleth "kept promising to publish Hank's and Catherine's books under

2380-611: The formation of the club. The Leszno Aero Club is the largest airfield in the Wielkopolska area. The Aero Club belongs to the Polish Aero Club central gliding school. The Aero Club in Leszno hosted the world gliding championship in 1958, 1969, and 2003. It is the only place that has done so. The Aero Club also has a pilot school called the Central Gliding school. The school has been around for over 50 years and

2448-565: The last 300 words of Bradbury's first horror story, "The Candle" ( Weird Tales , November 1942). Bradbury has referred to Kuttner as a neglected master and a "pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas". William S. Burroughs 's novel The Ticket That Exploded contains direct quotes from Kuttner regarding the "Happy Cloak" parasitic pleasure monster from the Venusian seas. Mary Elizabeth Counselman believed that Kuttner's habit of writing under widely varied pseudonyms deprived him of

2516-724: The name Leszczyński (literal meaning "of Leszno"), derived from the name of their estate, as was the custom among the Polish nobility . In around 1516, a community of Protestants known as the Unity of the Brethren ( Unitas fratrum ) were expelled from the Bohemian lands by King Vladislaus II and settled in Leszno. They were invited by the Leszczyński family , imperial counts since 1473 and who had converted to Calvinism . The arrival of

2584-574: The names of strange gods for their stories, though so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme that it has been dubbed the "Clark Ashton Smythos." In 1925 Smith published Sandalwood , which was partly funded by a gift of $ 50 from Donald Wandrei . He wrote little fiction in this period with the exception of some imaginative vignettes or prose poems . Smith was poor for most of his life and often did hard manual jobs such as fruit picking and woodcutting to support himself and his parents. He

2652-656: The old house burned – the Smiths believed by arson, others said by accident. Smith now reluctantly did gardening for other residents at Pacific Grove, and grew a goatee. He spent much time shopping and walking near the seafront but despite Derleth's badgering, resisted the writing of more fiction. In 1961 he suffered a series of strokes and in August 1961 he quietly died in his sleep, aged 68. After Smith's death, Carol remarried (becoming Carolyn Wakefield) and subsequently died of cancer. The poet's ashes were buried beside, or beneath,

2720-569: The others. Smith published most of his volumes of poetry in this period, including the aforementioned The Star-Treader and Other Poems , as well as Odes and Sonnets (1918), Ebony and Crystal (1922) and Sandalwood (1925). His long poem The Hashish-Eater; Or, the Apocalypse of Evil was written in 1920. Smith wrote most of his weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos stories, inspired by H. P. Lovecraft . Creatures of his invention include Aforgomon , Rlim-Shaikorth , Mordiggian, Tsathoggua ,

2788-609: The pioneering 19th-century Polish encyclopedias, in the town. In 1871 it became part of Germany, and in 1887, it became the administrative seat of the Prussian Kreis Lissa . After World War I , in November 1918, Poland regained independence. Shortly after the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–19 broke out, attempting to reintegrate Greater Poland and Leszno with Poland. The first local battles of

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2856-446: The purpose of preserving the work of H.P. Lovecraft, Derleth published the first of several major collections of Smith's fiction, Out of Space and Time (1942). This was followed by Lost Worlds (1944). The books sold slowly, went out of print and became costly rarities. Derleth published five more volumes of Smith's prose and two of his verse, and at his death in 1971 had a large volume of Smith's poems in press. In 1953, Smith suffered

2924-720: The remaining Poles were massacred by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen , which entered the town in September 1939. A notable public execution of 20 Poles, members of the "Sokół" Polish Gymnastic Society , former Polish insurgents of 1918–19, a local teacher, and a lawyer, was carried out in Leszno by the Einsatzgruppe VI on October 21, 1939. Poles who were initially imprisoned in Leszno were also murdered in nearby towns and villages of Poniec , Osieczna , Włoszakowice and Rydzyna . Poles from Leszno were also among

2992-558: The story was finished. Among Kuttner's most popular work were the Gallegher stories, published under the Padgett name, about a man who invented high-tech solutions to client problems (assisted by his insufferably egomaniacal robot) when he was drunk, only to be completely unable to remember exactly what he had built or why after sobering up. These stories were later collected in Robots Have No Tails . In her introduction to

3060-643: The table, he found it a very distasteful business at times—he had once said to Sterling that writing prose was "a hateful task, for a poet, and [one which] wouldn't be necessary in any true civilisation." In short, it may be that Smith experienced that variety of "let-down" or loss peculiar to the child prodigies. In September 1935, Smith's mother Fanny died. Smith spent the next two years nursing his father through his last illness. Timeus died in December 1937. Aged 44, Smith now virtually ceased writing fiction. He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in

3128-585: The uprising took place in the area on December 28, 1918. Afterward the city became part of the newly established Second Polish Republic under the Treaty of Versailles , with effect from 17 January 1920. The local populace had to acquire Polish citizenship. In the interbellum, Leszno was a county seat within the Polish Poznań Voivodeship . In 1924, a monument dedicated to the Polish insurgents of 1918–19

3196-688: The victims of the large Katyn massacre committed by the Russians in April–May 1940. Already in late 1939, the Germans expelled over 1,000 Poles, including families of Poles murdered in various massacres, in addition teachers, local officials, activists, former insurgents, and owners of shops and workshops, which were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. A transit camp for Poles expelled from various nearby settlements

3264-529: The volume. Price points out in his introduction to the volume that "Henry Kuttner's own private corner of the Cthulhu Mythos was, then, apparently derived in about equal measure from Lovecraft, Bloch, Zoroastrianism , and Theosophy ." Kuttner spent the mid-1950s getting his master's degree but died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1958. Leszno Leszno ( Polish pronunciation: [ˈlɛʂnɔ] , German : Lissa , [ˈlɪsa] )

3332-428: The wing of a personal idol, the poet George Sterling, and his first book of poetry had brought him comparisons to Keats and Shelley. This notoriety must surely have raised his standing in his small hometown. And yet the depression found Smith without a job or viable occupation, unable to eke out a living as a poet, with girlfriends berating him for his lack of ambition. And while his turn to writing fiction did put bread on

3400-532: The wizard Eibon , and various others. In an homage to his friend, Lovecraft referred in "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Battle That Ended the Century" (written in collaboration with R. H. Barlow) to an Atlantean high-priest, "Klarkash-Ton". Smith's weird stories form several cycles, called after the lands in which they are set: Averoigne , Hyperborea , Mars , Poseidonis , Zothique . To some extent Smith

3468-872: Was a seat of a voivodeship administrative area. In 1991, a monument to the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and the heroes of the fights for Poland's independence was unveiled, and in 1995, a memorial to the victims of the Katyn massacre was unveiled. From 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Leszno Voivodeship . In 2000, the city was awarded "The Golden Star of Town Twinning" prize by the European Commission . Leszno has an oceanic climate ( Köppen : Cfb ) although notably with warm summer continental characteristics ( Dfb ), typical of inland west and south polish. The Leszno motorcycle club

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3536-507: Was a special Kuttner tribute issue featuring three reprinted tales by Kuttner - "It Walks By Night", "The Frog" and "The Invaders," together with various essays on Kuttner, and an interview with his wife and fellow writer C.L. Moore . Crypt of Cthulhu 5, No 7 (whole number 41) (Lammas 1986), edited by Robert M. Price , was a special Henry Kuttner issue collecting eight Cthulhu Mythos stories by Kuttner. (It did not include "Spawn of Dagon" or "The Invaders"). The Book of Iod : Ten Tales of

3604-507: Was an able cook and made many kinds of wine. He also did well digging, typing and journalism, as well as contributing a column to The Auburn Journal and sometimes worked as its night editor. One of Smith's artistic patrons and frequent correspondents was San Francisco businessman Albert Bender . At the beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than

3672-590: Was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories and poetry, and an artist. He achieved early recognition in California (largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling ) for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne . As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller , Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of

3740-503: Was burnt down on 28 April 1656 by Swedish forces. Quickly rebuilt afterwards, it was set on fire again during the Great Northern War by Russian forces in 1707 and was ravaged by plague in 1709. The Leszczyński family owned the city until 1738, when King Stanislaus I Leszczynski sold it to Aleksander Józef Sułkowski following his abdication. One of two main routes connecting Warsaw and Dresden ran through Leszno in

3808-417: Was erected. During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, the town was annexed by Nazi Germany and incorporated into Reichsgau Wartheland . The Germans carried out mass arrests of Poles accused of "anti-German activities". Attending church services and having private meetings in Polish households were considered suspect activities. A prison for Poles

3876-545: Was established in the local monastery, where more than 200 people had already been imprisoned in September 1939 during the Intelligenzaktion . The Polish population was expelled to the General Government (German-occupied central Poland). Most of the town's Jewish population (which had included such notable rabbis as Leo Baeck and Jacob of Lissa , as well as the writer Ludwig Kalisch ) and

3944-465: Was established in the local school. Poles were held there several days, their money, valuables and food were confiscated, and then they were either deported to Tomaszów Mazowiecki or Łódź in German-occupied central Poland or sent to local German colonists or to Germany as slave labour . Despite such circumstances, local Poles organized an underground resistance movement , which included

4012-402: Was founded on May 8, 1938. The club was re-established May 2, 1946 after World War II. On July 28, 1949 the Leszno motorcycle club changed its name to Unia Leszno Speedway Club. Some rules and regulations were revised as well. The Unia Leszno has been a very successful club that has won many awards and medals throughout the years. The Unia Leszno Speedway Club has won over 78 different medals since

4080-407: Was headed by Jan Amos Komenský (known in English as Comenius), an educator and the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren. Johann Heermann , a German-speaking poet, lived in Leszno from 1638 until his death in 1647. Between 1636 and 1639, the town became fortified and its area increased. The era of Leszno's prosperity and cultural prominence ended during the Second Northern War , when the town

4148-476: Was influenced in his vision of such lost worlds by the teachings of Theosophy and the writings of Helena Blavatsky . Stories set in Zothique belong to the Dying Earth subgenre . Amongst Smith's science fiction tales are stories set on Mars and the invented planet of Xiccarph . His short stories originally appeared in the magazines Weird Tales , Strange Tales , Astounding Stories , Stirring Science Stories and Wonder Stories . Clark Ashton Smith

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4216-523: Was intermittent, though he produced his best poetry during this period. A small volume, Odes and Sonnets , was brought out in 1918. Smith came into contact with literary figures who would later form part of H.P. Lovecraft's circle of correspondents; Smith knew them far earlier than Lovecraft. These figures include poet Samuel Loveman and bookman George Kirk. It was Smith who in fact later introduced Donald Wandrei to Lovecraft. For this reason, it has been suggested that Lovecraft might as well be referred to as

4284-468: Was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore . They met through their association with the " Lovecraft Circle ", a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft . Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s and most of the work was credited to pseudonyms, mainly Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell. L. Sprague de Camp , who knew Kuttner and Moore well, has stated that their collaboration

4352-409: Was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders including intense agoraphobia , and although he was accepted to high school after attending eight years of grammar school, his parents decided it was better for him to be taught at home. An insatiable reader with an extraordinary eidetic memory , Smith appeared to retain most or all of whatever he read. After leaving formal education, he embarked upon

4420-503: Was managed by pilot Irena Kempówna in the 1950s and 1960s. The Klub Sportowy Polonia Leszno was formed in 1912 in Leszno. It is an indoor soccer field. The first President of the club was Marcin Giera. The club did not gain much popularity until after World War II when official teams started playing there. Prior to World War I most of the people that played there were locals. Leszno is twinned with: Clark Ashton Smith Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961)

4488-444: Was one of "the big three of Weird Tales , with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", though some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. The fantasy writer and critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse". Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle, and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. His work

4556-465: Was so seamless that, after a story was completed, it was often impossible for either Kuttner or Moore to recall who had written what. According to de Camp, it was typical for either partner to break off from a story in mid-paragraph or even mid-sentence, with the latest page of the manuscript still in the typewriter. The other spouse would routinely continue the story where the first had left off. They alternated in this manner as many times as necessary until

4624-709: Was the third member of the great triumvirate of Weird Tales , with Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard . Many of Smith's stories were published in six hardcover volumes by August Derleth under his Arkham House imprint. For a full bibliography to 1978, see Sidney-Fryer, Emperor of Dreams (cited below). S. T. Joshi is working with other scholars to produce an updated bibliography of Smith's work. A selection of Smith's best-known tales includes: By this time his interest in writing fiction began to lessen and he turned to creating sculptures from soft rock such as soapstone . Smith also made hundreds of fantastic paintings and drawings. The authoritative bibliography on Smith's work

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