Hyperborea

About HYPERBOREA and Clark Ashton Smith: - Behind the North Wind
The Muse of Hyperborea
The Seven Geases
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
The White Sybil
The Testament of Athammaus
The Coming of the White Worm
Ubbo-SathlaThe Door to SaturnThe Ice-Demon
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
The Theft of Thirty-nine Girdles
The World’s Rim*
The Abominations of Yondo
The Desolation of Soom
The Passing of Aphrodite
The Memnons of the Night
Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle by Lin Carter
HYPERBOREA, an imaginary land first written about by the early Greeks, has been the scene of , many a strange fantasy, fertile ground for the imaginative dreams of many writers down the years. But surely none so rich as those of Clark Ashton Smith, who took Hyperborea and made it his own in stories and verse that glow with life, in prose of which Ray Bradbury has said, “Take one step across the threshold and you plunge into color, sound, taste, smell, and texture; into language. Here is the real world of Clark Ashton Smith, plus a hint of the other worlds whose cities dwarf the shadows that move through them . .