Hyperborea (collection)

Hyperborea is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-ninth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1971. It was the second themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, notably Weird Tales.[1]

Hyperborea
Cover of Hyperborea
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
Cover artistBill Martin
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesBallantine Adult Fantasy series
GenreFantasy
PublisherBallantine Books
Publication date
1971
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pagesxvi, 203
ISBN0-345-02206-8
Preceded byZothique 
Followed byXiccarph 

Summary

The book collects one prose poem and ten tales of the author's Hyperborean cycle, set on a prehistoric lost northern continent Smith named for the mythological land of Hyperborea, with an introduction and map by Carter. One story from the sequence, the fragment "The House of Haon-Dor," is omitted. The editor also includes in the collection four additional tales of Smith's from what he took to be a similar but more fragmentary sequence of stories.

Contents
  • "The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem)
  • "The Seven Geases"
  • "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
  • "The White Sybil"
  • "The Testament of Athammaus"
  • "The Coming of the White Worm"
  • "Ubbo-Sathla"
  • "The Door to Saturn"
  • "The Ice-Demon"
  • "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
  • "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles"
  • The World's Rim
  • "Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle", by Lin Carter

Reception

The collection was reviewed by L. Sprague de Camp in Amra v. 2, no. 55, December 1971, Robert FitzOsbert in Luna Monthly no. 40, September 1972, and Fritz Leiber in Whispers no. 2, December 1973.[1]

Notes
  1. Hyperborea title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database


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