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Lost Worlds #5
Editor: Scott Connors, Ron Hilger
$15.00
Seele Brennt ( 2008)
Editor: Scott Connors
Associate Editor: Ron Hilger
Issue number five (2008)
Editorial: “Lights! Camera! Inaction!” by Scott Connors............................................... 2
Something About Cats—and CAS! by Ron Hilger............................................................3
“A Thoroughly Modern Disdain”: The Materialist’s Descent into Hell in “The Seven
Geases” by Geoffrey R. Reiter..............................................................................5
Recollections of Clark Ashton Smith by Samuel J. Sackett...........................................15 (this article to be replaced by something else)
An Appreciation of “Ode to the Abyss” by Carl Jay Buchanan.......................................18
Lord of the sultry, red parterres: Botanic Horror in Clark Ashton Smith
by Philippe Gindre...............................................................................................22
“Grown Together in Love”: Theme and Image in “Connaissance” by Phillip A. Ellis......33
Clark Ashton Smith Collections in the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 2: The Bancroft
Library by Scott Connors......................................................................................38
Reviews by Jim Rockhill, Brian Stableford, and Don Herron
......................................................................................................................................43
Lost Worlds is a scholarly journal, published at irregular intervals, dedicated to the promotion of the study of
the life and works of Clark Ashton Smith and related writers. Submissions should be sent via electronic mail
in either WordPerfect or Rich Text Format to the editor, scottconnors01@comcast.net, and should contain
the contributor’s contact information, both physical and electronic. Alternative forms of submission are
available, please contact the editor for information. Submissions should adhere to the MLA Style Manual and
Guide to Scholarly Publishing, second edition. Citations from the works of Clark Ashton Smith may be
abbreviated using the list of standard abbreviations found on page 50. By submitting a contribution, you are
agreeing to ownership of the printing/publishing rights for the material in question as well as granting Lost
Worlds permission to publish said material. Literary rights for the material will reside with Lost Worlds for a
period of one year after publication, at which time all rights revert to the respective author(s). Payment is in
two (2) contributor’s copies of the issue in which the work appears. Lost Worlds is indiced by the Modern
Language Association.
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Copyright © 2008 Seele Brennt Publications, except
All material by Clark Ashton Smith is Copyright © 2008 by CASiana,
the Literary Estate of Clark Ashton Smith, and appears by permission of William A. Dorman
The photograph of Clark Ashton Smith on page 15 is courtesy of John Haefele.