The City of the Singing Flame

by Clark Ashton Smith

Book Overview

When Giles Angarth disappeared, nearly two years ago, we had been friends for a decade or more, and I knew him as well as anyone could purport to know him. Yet the thing was no less a mystery to me... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671834150
• ISBN13: 9780671834159
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

City of Singing Flame

This Book is an excellant Rendition of short stories from other books of CAS!Averoigne,Posiedonis,Xiccarph,Polaris and Zothique. It gives a Good Showing of Magic,Mystery,Adventure and pure Excitement from other Realms other Than that as we know it!Well worth laying your hands on if you can find a copy!The Earlier Paperbacks which came out in the Early Seventies are Extra hard to find and very Expensive!Smith is An Anomoly of Required Taste,And once you have tasted his forbidden Fruit You are his Forever!!!! Brian D Zaharia!!!!!!

Horror Fantasy that's not fantastically horrible

There's no getting around it, the man could write. This book is a collection of short stories classified by which, of the many world settings Smith wrote about, the story falls into. Expect irony, disgust, outrage, grim turns and twists, even the come uppance of chauvinists! The fantasy aspect almost seems like a ripoff of all those fantasy games like D & D, except that Smith's stories were written long before role playing games. These stories are not quake in your boots scary, but they do prompt an emotional reaction. The title story should be required reading, that is, if I believed in such a thing.