Search Worlds Without End

Clark Ashton Smith's influential Zothique sequence of stories, the majority of which were orignally published during the 1930s, collected in a signle volume. Number 16 in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, edited by Lin Carter.

Contents:

• About Zothique, and Clark Ashton Smith: When the World Grows Old - essay by Lin Carter
• Map of Zothique
• Zothique (1951 poem)
• Xeethra (1934)
• Necromancy in Naat (1936)
• The Empire of the Necromancers (1932)
• The Master of the Crabs (1948)
• The Death of Ilalotha (1937)
• The Weaver in the Vault (1934)
• The Witchcraft of Ulua (1934)
• The Charnel God (1934)
• The Dark Eidolon (1935)
• Morthylla (1953)
• The Black Abbot of Puthuum (1936)
• The Tomb-Spawn (1934)
• The Last Hieroglyph (1935)
• The Isle of the Torturers (1933)
• The Garden of Adompha (1938)
• The Voyage of King Euvoran (1933)
• Epilogue: The Sequence of the Zothique Tales - essay by Lin Carter

Contents:

• [viii] - Hyperborea (map) - interior artwork by Lin Carter
• ix - About Hyperborea and Clark Ashton Smith: Behind the North Wind - essay by Lin Carter
• 3 - The Muse of Hyperborea - [Prose Pastels - 3] - (1934) - poem
• 4 - The Seven Geases - [Hyperborea] - (1934) - novelette
• 30 - The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - short story
• 41 - The White Sybil - [Hyperborea] - (1934) - short story
• 53 - The Testament of Athammaus - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - short story
• 77 - The Coming of the White Worm - [Hyperborea] - (1941) - short story
• 94 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - short story
• 104 - The Door to Saturn - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - short story
• 128 - The Ice-Demon - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - short story
• 148 - The Tale of Satampra Zeiros - [Satampra Zeiros] - (1931) - short story
• 164 - The Theft of Thirty-nine Girdles - [Satampra Zeiros] - (1958) - short story
• 181 - The Abominations of Yondo - (1926) - short story
• 190 - The Desolation of Soom - poem (variant of The Abomination of Desolation 1938)
• 192 - The Passing of Aphrodite - [Prose Pastels - 5] - (1934) - poem
• 195 - The Memnons of the Night - (1917) - poem
• 197 - Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle - essay by Lin Carter

Contents:

• 3 - About Xiccarph and Clark Ashton Smith: Other Stars and Skies - essay by Lin Carter
• 9 - To the Daemon: an Invocation - [Prose Pastels - 6] - poem (variant of To the Daemon 1943)
• 15 - The Maze of Maal Dweb - [Maal Dweb] - (1933) - short story
• 37 - The Flower-Women - [Maal Dweb] - (1935) - short story
• 58 - Vulthoom - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1935) - novelette
• 94 - The Dweller in the Gulf - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1933) - novelette
• 121 - The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1932) - novelette
• 147 - The Doom of Antarion - short story (variant of The Planet of the Dead 1932)
• 168 - The Demon of the Flower - (1933) - short story
• 185 - The Monster of the Prophecy - (1932) - novelette
• 239 - Sadastor - (1930) - poem
• 244 - From the Crypts of Memory - (1917) - poem

Contents:

• 1 - About Poseidonis and Clark Ashton Smith: The Magic of Atlantis - essay by Lin Carter
• 9 - An Editor's Note (Poseidonis) - essay by Lin Carter
• 11 - The Muse of Atlantis - [Poseidonis] - poem (variant of From a Letter 1922)
• 12 - The Last Incantation - [Malygris] - (1930) - short story
• 18 - The Death of Malygris - [Malygris] - (1934) - short story
• 33 - Tolometh - (1958) - poem
• 35 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story
• 50 - A Voyage to Sfanomoë - [Poseidonis] - (1931) - short story
• 59 - A Vintage from Atlantis - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story
• 67 - Atlantis - [Poseidonis] - (1912) - poem
• 71 - Editor's Note [2] (Poseidonis) - essay by Lin Carter
• 73 - In Lemuria - (1921) - poem
• 75 - An Offering to the Moon - (1953) - short story
• 88 - The Uncharted Isle - (1930) - short story
• 101 - Lemurienne - (1971) - poem (variant of The Lemurienne 1923)
• 105 - Editor's Note [3] (Poseidonis) - essay by Lin Carter
• 107 - The Epiphany of Death - (1934) - short story
• 115 - Editor's Note [4] (Poseidonis) - essay by Lin Carter
• 116 - In Cocaigne - (1922) - poem
• 117 - Symposium of the Gorgon - (1958) - short story
• 127 - The Venus of Azombeii - (1931) - novelette
• 158 - The Isle of Saturn - (1951) - poem
• 160 - The Root of Ampoi - (1949) - short story
• 177 - The Invisible City - (1932) - short story
• 202 - Amithaine - (1951) - poem
• 203 - The Willow Landscape - (1931) - short story
• 209 - The Shadows - (1922) - poem