(with [Caitlin Watkins](http://ctln.wtkns.com/)) ### Front matter integral reading, 2020 artist edition ______ of 25 constructed by Caitlin and james in Quarantine Year One, QYO 2020 Text Copyright © 1931 Clark Ashton Smith Weird Tales Vol XVIII No 5 the Popular Fiction Publishing Company This handmade artist's book is believed to be fair use of an item in the public domain. Text reproduced from archive.org, identifier: WeirdTalesV18N04193111 Illustrations by wtkns licensed under CC BY 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ### Dedication for Tirouv Ompallios, my companion ### Illustrations ![[SatamprasZeiros1.jpg]] ![[900-Site Media/Images/Project Images/satamprasZeiros2.jpg]] ![[satamprasZeiros3.jpg]] ![[SatamprasZeiros4.jpg]] ### Clark Ashton Smith January 13th, 1893–August 14, 1961 (a.k.a. The Bard of Auburn, The Emperor of Dreams, The Star Treader, The Last of the Great Romantics, The Keats of the Pacific, Klarkash-Ton) This American West Coast Romantic Poet, Artist, Sculptor, and Weird Fiction author had significant literary relationships with George Sterling, H.P. Lovecraft, and Robert E. Howard. He was also a translator of Baudelaire, among other French and Spanish poets. Smith's complete stories are collected in a five volume set from Skyhorse Publishing. A 110 minute documentary film by Darin Coelho Spring is available from Hippocampus Press and streaming online. ### Glossary Glossary: acclivity - an ascending slope or hill (ant. declivity) Acromi - a hyperborean figure adamantine - unbreakable anthropophagic - human–eating, cannibalistic azure - bright, clear blue baroque - ornately detailed basaltic - made from dark, dense, igneous rock bestiality - savagely cruel boles - trunk of a tree cadaverous - corpselike celerity - quick, swift moving chary - wary or cautious coeval - co–occurring Commoriom - abandoned capitol of Hyperborea (possibly borrowed from arabic: Al–Qamar “the moon”) cressets - a fuel container burned as a torch Cunambria - a hyperborean figure cupolas - a small domed structure, usually atop a roof daystar - the Sun, or a morning star declivity - a downward slope (ant. acclivity) drearness - dismal, gloomy dubiety - doubtful or uncertain ebullition - bubbling or boiling electrum - an alloy of gold and silver execrable - cursed, foul fane - temple or shrine fetid, fetidity - foul, stinking, rotten fetor - smell of decay foreomening - predicting, warning frond - large leaf fronded - made from fronds globular - spherical guileless - innocent, naive hardihood - daring, bold hassock - a clump of grass howbeit - nevertheless Hyperborea - a lost polar continent incursive - invasive injudicious - unwise interstices - gaps ken - understanding Lemuria - lost continent lintel - structural or decorative support across the top of a door or window liquescent - fluid loth - reluctant mastodon - an extinct elephant–like animal maw - mouth or gullet mephitic - foul smelling or poisonous mordant, mordantly - sharp edged or biting mottlings - splotches or spots niggardliness - stinginess or parsimony noisome - foul smelling, unpleasant nowise - not at all obeisance - respect, deference obelisks - stone pillar or monument ophidian - snakelike or serpentine overgreened - overgrown with vegetation palmferns - of the family Cycadece (common in the Jurassic period) pazoors - unit of Hyperborean currency pecuniary - relating to money peregrinations - meandering journey Polarion - the home of the White Sybil porticoes - a roof supported by columns, like aporch protoplastic - ancient, primitive, prototypical purpureal - of a purple color putrefaction - decay or rotting quinquangular - having five corners sanguinary - bloody sepulcher - tomb, burial chamber sibilant - hissing sound somnolent - sleepy or drowsy stand us in good stead - advantageous in the future suvana - a palm tree swarthy - dark skinned sybil - a prophetess or oracle toilworn - exhausted by labor transversely - crossing or crosswise Tsathoggua - ancient toad god, worshipped in Commoriom urbane - dignified, civilized Uzuldaroum - Capital of Hyperborea vainglorious - arrogant, proud valediction - statement of farewell verdigris - greenish patina of oxidized copper viscid - sticky, gelatinous viscous - thick gooey liquid wan - weak, pale ### Other Significant works include: The Star-Treader and Other Poems, 1912 The Hashish-Eater; Or, the Apocalypse of Evil, 1920 The City of the Singing Flame, 1931 Genius Loci and Other Tales, 1948 ### Colophon: The present copy of The Tale of Satampra Zeiros, a marvellous textwhich has here been presumptuously adorned with barely sufficient linoleum block prints; was imagined, designed, printed, and hand-bound thusly by several ingenious methods of digital and traditional construction. 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