``None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith.
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Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales , helped define and shape ``weird fiction`` in the early twentieth century, alongside contemporaries H.
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In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer.`` --H. ``None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith