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The Hashish Eater -or- The Apocalypse of Evil – The epic poem in blank verse that brought Clark Ashton Smith fame and led to his acquaintance with H.P. Lovecraft.

Lord of the Lamia – An American archeologist faces a weird and deadly mythic ancient creature in the eons-old city of Cairo. Modern day thieves wish to control it but somehow he becomes the Lord of the Lamia.

Strange was the bondage into which he sold himself, a terror-stricken slave in an abyss of evil. And stranger still was the bargain he made with the Unseen World to escape the shadow of the Thing named . . . Skull-Face.