클라크 애슈턴 스미스

소개

클라크 애슈턴 스미스(영어: Clark Ashton Smith, 1893년 1월 13일~1961년 8월 14일)는 미국의 소설가, 시인이다. 공포 소설과 판타지 소설로 이름을 알렸으며 같은 시대의 H. P. 러브크래프트, 로버트 E. 하워드와 함께 공포 소설 전문지 《위어드 테일스》의 삼인조로 통했다. 100여 편의 단편소설과 700여 편의 시를 남겼다.

Clark Ashton Smith was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories and poetry, and an artist. He achieved early recognition in California for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Other writers influenced by Smith include Leigh Brackett, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Fritz Leiber, George R. R. Martin, and Donald Sidney-Fryer.