1948 collection of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith
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Genius Loci and Other Tales
Jacket illustration by Frank Wakefield for Genius Loci and Other Tales by Clark Ashton Smith
Author
Clark Ashton Smith
Cover artist
Frank Wakefield
Language
English
Genre
Fantasy, horror, science fiction
Publisher
Arkham House
Publication date
1948
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (hardback)
Pages
228
Genius Loci and Other Tales is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1948 and was the author's third book published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 3,047 copies. The stories were written between 1930 and 1935.
The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne and Zothique.
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were also spirits invariably bound to places, not unlike the Latin geniusloci, and sometimes this produced complicated myths like the cult of Arethusa...
landscape Cultural region Deep map Geniusloci Landvættir Nature writing Parochialism Psychogeography Topophilia A. Akkerman and A.F. Cornfeld (2010) "Greening...
Nereids, Naiad, water nymph or mermaid, the earth being (terroir), the geniusloci or guardian spirit of a location, the succubus who comes from the diabolical...
published in the January 1934 issue of Weird Tales. It was included in the books GeniusLociandOtherTales (1948) and Zothique (1970). The king of Tasuun, Famorgh...
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the geniusloci or guardian spirit of the site, Hercules, Silvanus, Fortuna Conservatrix ("Fortuna the Preserver") and in the Greek East Aphrodite and Agathe...
issue of Weird Tales. It was included in the books GeniusLociandOtherTales (1948) and Zothique (1970). In Yoros, Zobal the archer and Cushara the pike-bearer...
within and out of doors, as a household spirit or a malevolent geniusloci (that is, a geographically-defined spirit) inhabiting fields or other topographical...
ISBN 9780873384162. "GeniusLoci... is a rare Smith story with a contemporary setting near Smith's own home that drew upon both Algernon Blackwood and Montague Summers...
California where Smith lived most of his early life. Reviewing GeniusLociandOtherTales in the 1983 book The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, E. F. Bleiler...
place, a geniusloci. Old Tom Bombadil was a merry fellow; bright blue his jacket was and his boots were yellow, green were his girdle and his breeches...
the appearance of such a woman, often found in folklore and children's tales such as "Hansel and Gretel". Hags are often seen as malevolent, but may also...
(1974). The Classic Fairy Tales. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-211559-6. Sale, Roger (1978). Fairy Talesand After: From Snow White to...
Goblins are featured in the Swedish fairy tales The Four big Trolls and little Peter Pastureman and Dag, and Daga and the Flying Troll of Sky Mountain where...
mnemonic strategies, mostly the method of loci. This includes all winners of the annual World Memory Championships and most of the known scientific cases of...
masculine deity (geniusloci). It is a household god, the guardian of houses and caretaker of the hearth. People sacrificed roosters and black hens to the...
dead; his wife, a wise woman, magically resurrected him unharmed. Other folk tales relate to the taking of farm animals or people (typically women or...
tradition of such tales to write fairy tales, and Madame d'Aulnoy invented the term contes de fée ('fairy tale'). While the tales told by the précieuses...
the dead, and the gods and spirits of the natural world. Some of its beliefs, such as those concerning geniusloci spirits and many other beings classified...