Ebony and Crystal - Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961)was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, known forhis vivid imagination and lyrical prose. His work had a profound influence on the fantasy and horror genres.\Smith filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures\- Ray Bradbury\In sheer daemonic strangeness andfertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled\- HP Lovecraft\Nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse\-..