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Line 1: {{~~trope~~creator}} [[File:Clark Ashton Smith 1912.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Clark Ashton Smith, 1912]] '''Clark Ashton Smith''' (1893-1961) was an American writer of [[Horror]], [[Fantasy]] and [[Science Fiction]]. He is most notable for being one of the founders of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] along with [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]], [[Robert E. Howard]] and others. Compared to Lovecraft's, Smith's stories tend to focus less on the [[Cosmic Horror Story]] and more on the pure exoticism of the setting. Some Mythos entities recur between them, such as the god Tsathoggua, but these entities tend to be less malevolent in Smith's portrayal than in Lovecraft's. Line 9 ⟶ 10: ---- {{creatortropes}} ~~=== Tropes found in Clark Ashton Smith's works: ===~~ * [[Action Girl]]: Vixeela in ''The Theft of Thirty-Nine Girdles''. * [[Action Hero]]: Subverted. Line 20 ⟶ 21: * [[Anyone Can Die]] * [[Apothecary Alligator]]: In "The Return of the Sorcerer": {{quote\| There were tables strewn with archaic instruments of doubtful use, with astrological charts, with skulls and alembics and crystals, with censers such as are used in the Catholic Church, and volumes bound in worm-eaten leather with verdigris-mottled clasps. In one corner stood the skeleton of a large ape; in another, a human skeleton; and overhead a stuffed crocodile was suspended.}} * [[The Bad Guy Wins]] * [[Baleful Polymorph]]: In ''The Maze of Maal Dweb''. Line 34 ⟶ 35: * [[Celibate Hero]] * [[Charm Person]]: Part of the repertory of every self-respecting evil female caster. * [[Chased Byby Angry Natives]] * [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] * [[Comet of Doom]] Line 44 ⟶ 45: * [[Dead Man Writing]] * [[Deadly Decadent Court]]: All of them. * [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]]: In ''Xeethra''. * [[Death Byby Materialism]]: In ''The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan''. * [[Disposing of a Body]] * [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: ''The Dark Eidolon'' is all about this. Line 51 ⟶ 52: * [[Downer Ending]]: Toyed with a lot. Sometimes we get a simple [[The Bad Guy Wins]] downer; sometimes a [[Kill'Em All]] ending, where the villains go down as well; and sometimes a straight happy ending. * [[Dragged Off to Hell]]: Inverted {{spoiler\|in ''The Devotee of Evil''.}} Averted {{spoiler\|in ''Xeethra'' to the surprise of the main character. It's still a [[Downer Ending]] though.}} * [[Drives Like Crazy]]: The titular cult in his [[Future Imperfect]] satire "The Great God Awto." A postscript reveals that in the 60th Century, people drive like crazy in stratospheric rocket ships, although of course they don't do this as part of some savage religion like Awto's barbaric "Hammuriquanean" worshippers did in the 20th. * [[Drop-Dead Gorgeous]] * [[Due to ~~The~~the Dead]] * [[Dying Alone]] * [[Egomaniac Hunter]]: The main character in ''The Seven Geases''. Line 59 ⟶ 60: * [[Eldritch Abomination]] * [[Empty Piles of Clothing]]: In ''The Weaver in the Vault''. * [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]] * [[Everything's Sparkly ~~With~~with Jewelry]] * [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In ''The Dark Eidolon'', the archdemon Thasaidon, Lord of the Seven Hells, refuses to help the sorcerer Namirrha in his plan for vengeance. This may be because all the people who would be killed by the plan are evil, and therefore unwitting servants of Thasaidon. * [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]: In ''The Coming of the White Worm'' and ''The Ice Demon''. Line 69 ⟶ 70: * [[Evil Versus Evil]]: every single character in ''The Dark Eidolon'' is evil. * [[Eye of Newt]] * [[Fantastic Flora]]: Evidently one of his favorite tropes. * [[Faux Death]]: played for horror in ''The Charnel God'' and ''The Second Internment''. * [[Functional Magic]] Line 93 ⟶ 95: * [[Lady Land]]: A surprisingly proto-feminist version in ''The Root of Ampoi''. * [[The Legions of Hell]] * [[Libation for ~~The~~the Dead]]: A non-symbolic version in ''The Death of Ilalotha''. * [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]] * [[Living Shadow]]: prominently in ''The Double Shadow'' and in a minor role in ''The Abominations of Yondo''. Line 140 ⟶ 142: * [[Summon Magic]] * [[Taken for Granite]]: In ''The Maze of Maal Dweb''. * [[Taking You ~~With~~with Me]] * [[Theory Before Phenomenon]]: In ''The Devotee of Evil'' and ''The Tomb-Spawn.'' * [[The Time of Myths]]: Where the Hyperborea and Poseidonis stories take place. Line 153 ⟶ 155: * [[Victory Is Boring]]: Affects Maal Dweb. * [[Villain Protagonist]]: Repeatedly. * [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?]]: The [[Narrative Poem]] ''The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil'' plays with/subverts/does ''something'' to this trope. Its narrator travels through various fantastic visions, but apart from the title, it contains no mention of drugs. * [[Wicked Witch]]: In ''The Mother of Toads''. * [[Woman Scorned]]: Ilalotha in ''The Death of Ilalotha''. Line 161 ⟶ 163: [[Category:Authors]] [[Category:Clark Ashton Smith]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]