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The Abominations of Yondo

Dust-jacket by Ronald Clyne and Wynn Bullock forThe Abominations of Yondo by Clark Ashton Smith
Author	Clark Ashton Smith
Cover artist	Ronald Clyne and Wynn Bullock
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy,horror,science fiction
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1960
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	227

The Abominations of Yondo is a collection offantasy,horror andscience fictionshort stories by American writerClark Ashton Smith. It was released in1960 and was the author's fourth collection of stories published byArkham House. It was released in an edition of 2,005 copies. The stories were mostly written between1930 and1935.

The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles ofHyperborea,Poseidonis,Averoigne andZothique.

The title story is told by a man who has been released from being tortured by the priests of the lion-headed god Ong, and who tries to make his way to safety through the desert of Yondo, but is so perturbed by the horrors he encounters that he flees back to the realm of the torturers.

The Abominations of Yondo contains the following tales:

• "The Abominations of Yondo"
• "The White Sybil"
• "The Ice-Demon"
• "The Voyage of King Euvoran"
• "The Witchcraft of Ulua"
• "The Master of the Crabs"
• "A Vintage from Atlantis"
• "The Enchantress of Sylaire"
• "The Dweller in the Gulf"
• "The Dark Age"
• "The Devotee of Evil"
• "The Nameless Offspring"
• "The Epiphany of Death"
• "The Third Episode of Vathek" withWilliam Beckford
• "Chinoiserie"
• "The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony"
• "The Passing of Aphrodite"

• Jersey, Channel Islands:Neville Spearman, 1972.
• St. Albans, UK: Panther, 1974.

• Clark Ashton Smith bibliography

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989).The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 53.ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998).The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 36–37.
• Joshi, S.T. (1999).Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 68.ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004).Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 80.ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

• The abominations of Yondo, MSS 378 atL. Tom Perry Special Collections,Harold B. Lee Library,Brigham Young University

• 1960 short story collections
• Fantasy short story collections
• Horror short story collections
• Science fiction short story collections by Clark Ashton Smith

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