The Stairs in the Crypt by Clark Ashton Smith
At first the partially-revived lich lay somnolent and unmoving in a numb and ... Suffice it to say that, in the fullness of time, the lich had recovered its ...
www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/199/the-stairs-in-the-crypt - 27k
The Empire of the Necromancers by Clark Ashton Smith
These also they raised up from death; and Mmatmuor bestrode the withered charger; and the two magicians rode on in state, like errant emperors, with a lich ...
www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/61/the-empire-of-the-necromancers - 27k
The Last Hieroglyph by Clark Ashton Smith
Terror quickened in Nushain's heart, and it came to him that the shrouded shape, whether lich or phantom, resembled the weird, invasive hieroglyph that had ...
www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/111/the-last-hieroglyph - 43k
The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith
"For," said Avyctes, "I have called up, in all the years of my sorcery, no god or devil, no demon or lich or shadow, which I could not control and dismiss ...
www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/53 - 35k
The Abominations of Yondo by Clark Ashton Smith
Then, with one stride, the titanic lich took half the distance between us, and from out the folds of the tattered sere-cloth a gaunt arm arose, ...
www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/2 - 21k
The Death of Malygris by Clark Ashton Smith
Behold, it is only the lich of an old man after all, and one that has cheated the worm of his due provender overlong." "Aye," said Fustules. ...
www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/39/the-death-of-malygris - 34k
The Infernal Star (Fragment) by Clark Ashton Smith
He was close to the oaken library table, on which The Testaments of Carnamagos lay open at the lich-destroying formula, with the leaves weighted by a small ...
www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/101/the-infernal-star-(fragment) - 68k
Necromancy in Naat by Clark Ashton Smith
So, in answer to the unholy rites and incantations of necromancy, Yadar arose to such life as was possible for a resurrected lich. And he walked again, ...
www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/151/necromancy-in-naat - 50k