Poseidonis: Tales from Atlantis & Other Dying Islands by Clark Ashton Smith

Description

Set sail for Poseidonis, the last remnant of lost Atlantis, where the tides of time and doom rise ever higher. Here, on this crumbling continent adrift in the twilight of an age, sorcerers weave spells of desperate ambition, priest-kings cling to fading power, and the restless dead stir beneath the waves. The seas whisper of coming oblivion, yet men still chase forbidden knowledge, strange pleasures, and the vain hope of escape from their sinking world.

Amid towering spires and temples devoted to gods who no longer listen, alchemists seek the elixir of immortality, and warlocks call forth forces beyond their control. But neither sorcery nor science can halt the encroaching ocean, nor can they save Poseidonis from the fate that looms over it like a stormcloud of prophecy and ruin.

This collection brings together Clark Ashton Smith’s haunting tales of the doomed continent, capturing the grandeur, decadence, and inevitable destruction of a civilization on the brink. In Poseidonis, magic still holds sway, wonders and horrors walk as one, and every triumph is but a prelude to catastrophe. Enter this world of lost splendor—before the last towers vanish beneath the waves forever.

• Written by Clark Ashton Smith
• 4.25″ x 6.875″ pocketbook size edition
• 216 pages
• Adult Fantasy Series