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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xenoflare" data-source="post: 1595831" data-attributes="member: 12431">Some info on Clark Ashton SmithFrom <a href="http://www.oceanstar.com/cas/biooutof.htm" target="_blank">http://www.oceanstar.com/cas/biooutof.htm</a>Readers of weird lore in our time are familiar with the famed Cthulhu mythology of H. P. Lovecraft, the mythology to which other writers added bits and portions; of those writers, none added so much as Clark Ashton Smith—and this despite the fact that Smith had created a fantastic setting all his own: the fabled land of Averoigne, which had taken hold of many readers and fired their imagination. His hyperborean settings have achieved a popularity equaled only by the lore of legend-haunted Arkham that was Lovecraft's. Indeed, so completely did Smith identify many of his settings with those of Lovecraft's, with the aid and at the behest of Lovecraft himself, that today many of his remarkable sculptures bear such recognizable names as Cthulhu, The Outsider, Tsathoggua, Yuggoth, Hastur, etc. With consummate skill, Smith has added characters, enlarged on settings, spun his stories to embrace a far wider area in time for the Ancient Ones and the Elder Gods; he has himself invented the Book of Eibon, Tsathoggua, and many other place-names and characters in the mythos, used by Lovecraft as well as himself.  Oh, Clark Ashton Smith is the writer who made up the demon froggy god haha i think in his works of fiction.. i think the concept's now pretty much a meme in fantasy horror, alongside tentacled monstrosities and elder protoplasmic gods of chaos. Sounds pretty cool, all in all - i did a double take when i saw the Arda haha, after all, your sig is a quote of King Theoden...Yours,shao</blockquote>

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