That Classics of Fantasy column also notes his best works, for those who might want to know where to start:
While any list of the best of Smith's tales will perforce be subjective, nevertheless any "best of" collection deserving the name would have to include "The Empire of the Necromancers", "Morthylla", and "Necromancy in Naat", all three set in his end-of-time era Zothique (as is his marvelously creepy play, The Dead Will Cuckold You); "The Enchantress of Sylaire", "The Holiness of Azedarac", "The Beast of Averoigne", and "The Colossus of Ylourgne" (the four best Averoigne stories, with "The Mandrakes" not far behind); "The Last Incantation", "The Death of Malygris", and "The Double Shadow" (all three set in Poseidonis, his version of Atlantis); "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" (set in Hyperborea, comparable to Howard's Hyborian age but written with much more wit); "The Vault of Yoh-Vombis" (truly horrific science fiction set on Mars); and "Genius Loci" and "Nemesis of the Unfinished" (two modern-day stories, the latter an effective fictionalization of the crippling writer's block that brought Smith's own career to a premature end a quarter-century before his death).
