Clark Ashton Smith Story Worlds

Clark Ashton Smith story worlds are the recurring invented settings introduced in 73.虚境奇谭：恐怖+幽默=最好的克苏鲁 to explain the range of [[ClarkAshtonSmith|Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯]]’s fiction. The episode names four main groups: Hyperborea, Averoigne, Zothique, and Poseidonis. Together they let Smith move among ancient northern lands, Renaissance-flavored France, far-future necromantic decadence, and the last remnants of Atlantis.

The concept helps the wiki treat Smith’s work as more than isolated Cthulhu monster stories. These worlds make [[WeirdFiction|weird fiction]] spatial and historical: each setting carries a different mixture of myth, magic, sexuality, death, satire, travel, and cosmic displacement.

Key Claims

• Smith’s settings act as interpretive machines, not mere backdrops.
• The worlds preserve ancientness and invented history, which supports the episode’s quoted warning that modern people wrongly think the ancient is dead.
• Hyperborea supplies [[Tsathoggua|萨托古雅]], [[Eibon|伊波恩]], [[SevenGeases|《七咒赋》]], and [[TheDoorToSaturn|《通往土星之门》]] in the episode’s account.
• Poseidonis supplies [[TheJourneyToSfanomoe|《前往斯法诺莫埃的旅途》]], where a sinking world leads to cosmic travel and transformation.
• The worlds connect [[CosmicHorror|cosmic horror]] to ornate fantasy and Horror-Humor Weird Fiction.

Connections

• Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯 and [[XujingQitan|《虚境奇谭》]] - author and source book.
• Cthulhu Mythos / 克苏鲁神话, Weird Fiction, and Open Shared Mythos - broader field.
• 《七咒赋》 / The Seven Geases, 《通往土星之门》 / The Door to Saturn, 《前往斯法诺莫埃的旅途》 / The Journey to Sfanomoë, Tsathoggua / 萨托古雅, and Eibon / 伊波恩 - story and figure examples from the episode.