The Fantasy Cycles of Clark Ashton Smith Part II: The Book of Hyperborea

The Fantasy Cycles of Clark Ashton Smith Part II: The Book of Hyperborea

“A far northern continent in its younger days before glaciers claimed it, when wizards and elder gods and wily thieves and greedy moneylenders crisscrossed its steamy jungles and ebony mountains and opulent cities.” That is how Ryan Harvey introduces us to Hyperborea, the second invented world of Clark Ashton Smith’s to be put under Black Gate‘s critical microscope. Join us on a journey to one of fantasy’s most delightfully strange milieus.

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