Ebony and Crystal

Clark Ashton Smith was born on January 13th 1893 in Long Valley, California. Smith achieved local recognition early in his life for his poems in the vein of Swinburne. He is grouped with the West Coast Romantics along with Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and was often cited as ‘The Last of the Great Romantics’ and ‘The Bard of Auburn’. As a writer Smith is commonly thought of as one of the ‘big three of Weird Tales alongside Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft’. His long and liter