The Double Shadow: A Clark Ashton Smith Podcast

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Episode #7: “The Mandrakes”

A transcript of this episode is now available. This week’s episode is on “The Mandrakes.” At the beginning of the episode, we noted a change in our line-up and an error we’d made regarding story order. The proper story order is reflected on our About page, although we kept Colossus where it had been and […]

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Smith and Lovecraft’s Letters To Be Collected Along With Sterling’s Poetry

Some exciting news from S.T. Joshi’s June 17th post: David E. Schultz and I are working hard on two large projects for Hippocampus Press: the Complete Poetry of George Sterling in 3 volumes, and the joint correspondence of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith in 2 volumes. We are also wrestling with getting a […]

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The Double Shadow Has Forums!

Want to talk more about Smith and the weird? Have a question about something on the show? Check out our new forums! We’ve set registration to require moderator approval, which we’re hoping will keep out the bots, etc. But if you sign up, we’ll get you approved as soon as possible!

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Episode #6: “The Colossus of Ylourgne” pt.2

A transcript of this episode is available. In this week’s episode, we finish “The Colossus of Ylourgne,” sections 5-8. Our site’s moved hosting, but we’re in the same spot on iTunes and our feed hasn’t changed. If you’re experiencing redownloaded episodes, that may occur because of the feed change. Merriam-Webster defines an “oubliette” as a […]

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Double Shadow Moves to a New Site

The podcast has successfully (we hope) moved to its new and permanent website. We wanted to use self-hosted WordPress so we could control more than one can on Tumblr, but Tumblr was very useful for us when we were just getting our feet and needed to concentrate on CAS, not tech stuff. We’ll still be […]

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Episode #5: “The Colossus of Ylourgne” pt.1

A transcription of this episode is available. This week’s episode covers the first half of “The Colossus of Ylourgne,” sections 1-4. You can subscribe in iTunes or via RSS. The illustration above was commissioned by Farnsworth Wright to go along with the story’s publication. According to his correspondence, Smith was dissatisfied with the piece as […]

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