Genius Loci and Other Tales.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948. Jacket by Frank Wakefield. First edition, first printing. Full black cloth, in Frank Wakefield dust jacket ($3.00). 228 pp. 7.5" x 5.25" Minor toning and foxing to top and bottom text block edge, else fine in fine dust jacket with lightly toned spine and rubbed edges, in mylar cover. Item #227765
FAN MAIL FROM LOVECRAFT
When H. P. Lovecraft sent Clark Ashton Smith fan mail, the literary friendship that ensued eternally shaped weird fiction as Smith became Lovecraft's creative sounding board and was instrumental in the Cthulhu mythos development. Smith proved himself to be a macabre giant in his own right, joining H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard in Weird Tales' shaping and producing darkly ironic horrors of his own. Lush and atmospheric, Genius Loci's short forays into Cthulhu's companion worlds show Smith at his most spine-tingling.
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Price: $300.00