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 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 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 萨托古雅, 伊波恩, 《七咒赋》, and 《通往土星之门》 in the episode’s account.
• Poseidonis supplies 《前往斯法诺莫埃的旅途》, where a sinking world leads to cosmic travel and transformation.
• The worlds connect cosmic horror to ornate fantasy and Horror-Humor Weird Fiction.

Connections

• Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯 and 《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.