The Last Hieroglyph

Clark Ashton Smith

Night Shade Books, Jan 11, 2011 - Fiction - 360 pages

The Last Hieroglyph is the fifth of the five volume Collected Fantasies series. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts.

The Last Hieroglyph includes, in chronological order, all of Clark Ashton Smith's stories from "The Dark Age" to "The Dart of Rasasfa."

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Review: The Last Hieroglyph (Collected Fantasies #5)

User Review  - Gustavo Vazquez - Goodreads

"The Last Hieroglyph", the last in the (chronological) "The Collected Fantasies of CAS", altough has some great stories scattered here and there, it is not a fair representatiion of CAS. The edition ...

Review: The Last Hieroglyph (Collected Fantasies #5)

User Review  - Simcha Wood - Goodreads

The final book of Night Shade Books' The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith series presents 29 stories written by Smith between 1933 and his death in 1961. While there are the occasional ...

About the author

Connors is a musician, writer, ex-altar boy from Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Richard A. Lupoff is a critic and an author of speculative fiction. Michael Moorcock is the author of the "Elric" saga and other works. Phillip R. Burger is a freelance writer, a consultant to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and a contributor to the Bison Frontiers of Imagination series.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Last Hieroglyph; Volume 5 of Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Series; Volume 5 of Short stories, Clark Ashton Smith
• Author: Clark Ashton Smith
• Editors: Scott Connors, Ronald Hilger
• Contributor: Richard A. Lupoff
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Night Shade Books, 2011
• ISBN: 1597800325, 9781597800327
• Length: 360 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies