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In this week's episode, in honor of Clark Ashton Smith's birthday (January 13, 1893), I'll be discussing "The Dark Eidolon." It first appeared in the January 1935 issue of Weird Tales, and is probably the Zothique story that carries the most name recognition.
It tells of Namirrha, a powerful sorcerer who returns to his home city in order to exact revenge on its ruler for a boyhood transgression.
Links:
Read "The Dark Eidolon" on the Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/212/the-dark-eidolon
Purchase The Dark Eidolon and Other Stores: http://www.amazon.com/Eidolon-Other-Fantasies-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143107380/
Purchase The Maze of the Enchanter: http://www.amazon.com/Enchanter-Collected-Fantasies-Clark-Ashton/dp/1597800317/
Purchase Tales of Zothique (Necronomicon Press): http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Zothique-Clark-Ashton-Smith/dp/0940884712 | http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Tales+of+Zothique
Clark Ashton Smith at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith
The Eldritch Dark Website: http://www.eldritchdark.com/
The Double Shadow Podcast: http://thedoubleshadow.com/
For Lord Dunsany, there is a one-volume selection of his works, In the Land of Time.
Clark Ashton Smith is one of my favorite early fantasy writers. The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies would be a good place to start.
If you like Arabian Nights fantasies, The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith and Khaled by F. Marion Crawford are both very good.
I second the recommendation of Titus Groan. The entire Gormenghast trilogy is great, especially the first two books.
Is it ok to get a little weird? Because some of my favorite short stories fall in that genre.
I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned Edgar Allan Poe. While most of his work of course belongs to the horror and macabre,
there's still a huge (dark) fantasy element to it. I'd say the same goes for authors like Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Thomas Ligotti.