THANKS

Quotations from Smith’s letters to H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Barlow, and L. Sprague de Camp have been drawn from manuscripts held at the John Hay Library of Brown University. Quotations from the letters to August Derleth derive from manuscripts in the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

For permission to publish material by Clark Ashton Smith, I thank CASiana Literary Enterprises, Mr. Richard E. Kuhn and Professor William Dorman. For aiding in the research conducted for this book, my thanks are due Dr. Mark N. Brown, Ms. Barbara A. Filipac, and Mr. John Stanley of Brown University, and Dr. Josephine L. Harper, Mrs. Joanne Hohler, and Mr. Harold Miller of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Douglas A. Anderson has made a great many valuable suggestions and contributions to this book. For their support and encouragement in general, I thank Rah Hoffman and Donald Sidney-­Fryer.

For This Expanded Edition: My appreciation goes to both Darrell Schweitzer and Rob Reginald. And a special thank you, in memoriam, to the earnest twenty-seven-year-old kid who wrote this book, stealing time away from the Tau lepton. He knew more about Clark Ashton Smith than I ever will.