《深谷住民》 / The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis

《深谷住民》 / The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis is one of the [[ClarkAshtonSmith|Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯]] stories summarized in 73.虚境奇谭：恐怖+幽默=最好的克苏鲁. The episode presents it as a relatively standard [[CosmicHorror|cosmic-horror]] case: three Earth adventurers go to Mars for gold, ignore warning signs, enter an underground space, and are destroyed by nonhuman powers.

The story’s episode summary moves from greed and exploration into claustrophobic architecture, strange underground sounds, blind degraded Martian dwellers, a white metal idol, and a creature whose touch attacks the explorers’ eyes. Its structure supports the episode’s broader claim that Smith’s horror often punishes human arrogance by making humans physically and epistemically helpless.

Key Claims

• The story uses greed and expedition confidence as the human entry point into Anti-Anthropocentric Satire.
• Its horror depends on descent, darkness, artificial-seeming architecture, blindness, and loss of bodily control.
• The episode reads it as a more straightforward [[CthulhuMythos|Cthulhu]]-style horror story than [[SevenGeases|《七咒赋》]].
• Its editorial history ties it to [[WeirdTales|Weird Tales / 诡丽幻谭]] and to pulp expectations around scientific motivation.

Connections

• [[XujingQitan|《虚境奇谭》]] - book context.
• Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯 - author.
• Cosmic Horror, Cthulhu Mythos / 克苏鲁神话, and Anti-Anthropocentric Satire - concepts the story illustrates.
• Weird Tales / 诡丽幻谭 - publication context discussed by the episode.