Do you think it ever upset him that he could never match up to

>>9701704
He was literarily better than either, and that's precisely why he's less known. Horror fans are overwhelmingly illiterate morons, ever more pulpy of mind and ever less deserving of the golden age of cosmic horror.

whom exactly?

>>9701722
Clark Ashton Smith. On a related note, I just read "The Monster of the Prophecy" and it was fucken tite.

Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me with the million-colored sun
Of secret worlds incredible, and take
Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar,
Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume
The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.
Like rampant monsters roaring for their glut,
The fiery-crested oceans rise and rise,
By jealous moons maleficently urged
To follow me for ever; mountains horned
With peaks of sharpest adamant, and mawed
With sulphur-lit volcanoes lava-langued,
Usurp the skies with thunder, but in vain;
And continents of serpent-shapen trees,
With slimy trunks that lengthen league by league,
Pursue my light through ages spurned to fire
By that supreme ascendance; sorcerers,
And evil kings, predominanthly armed
With scrolls of fulvous dragon-skin whereon
Are worm-like runes of ever-twisting flame,
Would stay me; and the sirens of the stars,
With foam-like songs from silver fragrance wrought,
Would lure me to their crystal reefs; and moons
Where viper-eyed, senescent devils dwell,
With antic gnomes abominably wise,
Heave up their icy horns across my way.
But naught deters me from the goal ordained
By suns and eons and immortal wars,
And sung by moons and motes; the goal whose name
Is all the secret of forgotten glyphs
By sinful gods in torrid rubies writ
For ending of a brazen book; the goal
Whereat my soaring ecstasy may stand
In amplest heavens multiplied to hold
My hordes of thunder-vested avatars,
And Promethèan armies of my thought,
That brandish claspèd levins. There I call
My memories, intolerably clad
In light the peaks of paradise may wear,
And lead the Armageddon of my dreams
Whose instant shout of triumph is become
Immensity's own music: for their feet
Are founded on innumerable worlds,
Remote in alien epochs, and their arms
Upraised, are columns potent to exalt
With ease ineffable the countless thrones
Of all the gods that are or gods to be,
And bear the seats of Asmodai and Set
Above the seventh paradise.

>>9701721
>He was literarily better than either
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*sucks in air*
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>>9701774
read more, manchild

>>9701736
>doesn't rhyme
literally not poetry

>>9701774
HPL literally wrote CAS a fan letter, and was constantly praising him. Do you think you know better than the guy who you elevate so far above CAS?

>>9701779
muh dick.

And so on, and so on.

*sniff*

>>9701785
That's because CAS was the Allen Ginsberg to Lovecraft's William Burroughs if you know what I mean.

>>9701721
Enough with the contrarian faggotry. The worst REH Conan story is better than anything CAS ever did. Just because he's obscure doesn't mean he's good.

>>9701839
Proving my point about horror fans

>>9701721
I unironically agree desu

>>9701721
His fantasies were better than HPL's dreamland stuff but not the horror.

Tsathoggua is the Jar Jar Binks of mythos entities.

>>9701704
He could outmatch them in the only way it counted... Poon. He was swimming in it in the way sexless Lovecraft and kissless fedora Howard weren't.

>>9701721
Abraham Merritt is more forgotten than Klarkash Ton. Does that mean he's even better?

>>9701906
No he couldn't. As far as anyone knows he also died a virgin.

>>9701912
Didn't he have some sory of torrid love affair with an older woman or something? I vaguely remember reading about that in the introduction to the penguin collection of his work.

>>9701911
I'm not positing universal laws here, friend. It's just that when a typical horror fan who "liked Lovecraft despite his style" (ie got memed by tentacle aesthetic in pop culture) encounters Smith's great atmosphere and prose they recoil and demand action, character development, and a spooky skelly because they can only get into 100% pedestrian and predigested shit.

>>9701912
He was a known lady's man and even got married eventually.

>>9701721
What's his best story?

>>9701785
not an argument

He hasn't reached the same level of fame (Robert has Conan, and Lovecraft is basically a pop culture staple at this point) but he was legit a great writer with an imagination that rivalled hem.

>>9701878
Everything is better than the Dream Cycle lol
Even Stephen King

>>9701878
>>9702636
fuck you I liked the dream cycle

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42KB, 449x570px

We all agree that Lord Dunsany was the best weird fiction writer, right?

>>9701912
Literally how. I'd fuck him and I'm not even gay

>>9701878
This I can agree with

>>9702682
It's pretty good, but you gotta realize that it's basically a Dunsanian fanfic.

>>9701704
I don't think comparing Marty McFly and J.D. Lovecraft makes any sense at all.

>>9702267
Ask me again in a few months when I get through the five volume complete fantasies

>>9702267
Probably The Dark Eidolon.

>>9701736
So he just did empty word salad shit like this?

>>9702682
You say that like your opinion means shit.

>>9705065
fuck you nigger
>>9702884
Dunsay is better but I still enjoyed Randolph's adventures