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• 9 • Introduction (The Last Oblivion) • essay by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
• 15 • The Hashish-Eater: or, The Apocalypse of Evil • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 30 • The Star-Treader • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 33 • Ode to the Abyss • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 35 • Nirvana • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 36 • The Song of a Comet • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 38 • Lament of the Stars • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 40 • In Saturn • (1919) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 40 • Triple Aspect • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 41 • The Abyss Triumphant • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 41 • The Motes • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 42 • Shadows • (1930) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 42 • Desire of Vastness • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 43 • A Dream of the Abyss • (1933) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 44 • After Armageddon • (1927) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 45 • The Ancient Quest • (1975) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 46 • Ode to Light • (1974) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 47 • Ode to Matter • (1970) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 49 • Nero • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 51 • Medusa • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 52 • Averted Malefice • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 53 • The Medusa of the Skies • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 53 • Saturn • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 60 • In Lemuria • (1921) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 60 • Satan Unrepentant • (1918) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 63 • The Ghoul and the Seraph • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 67 • The Medusa of Despair • (1913) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 67 • A Vision of Lucifer • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 68 • The Witch in the Graveyard • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 70 • The Flight of Azrael • (1952) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 71 • The Mummy • (1919) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 72 • To the Chimera • (1924) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 72 • Minatory • (1925) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 73 • The Whisperer of the Worm • (1971) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 73 • The Envoys • (1926) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 74 • Nyctalops • (1929) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 76 • Necromancy • (1934) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 76 • Jungle Twilight • (1932) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 77 • The Witch with Eyes of Amber • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 77 • Cambion • (1951) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 78 • The Saturnienne • (1927) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 79 • Chance • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 79 • Revenant • (1934) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 81 • Song of the Necromancer • (1937) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 82 • Pour chercher du noueau • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 83 • Witch-Dance • (1941) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 84 • Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch • (1951) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 85 • A Song from Hell • (1975) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 86 • The Titans in Tarturus • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 88 • The Twilight Woods • (1976) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 89 • Atlantis • [Poseidonis] • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 89 • The Eldritch Dark • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 90 • White Death • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 90 • A Dead City • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 91 • The Cloud-Islands • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 92 • The City of Destruction • (1948) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 92 • The City of the Titans • (1950) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 93 • Beyond the Great Wall • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 94 • Solution • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 94 • Rosa Mystica • (1921) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 95 • Symbols • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 95 • The City in the Desert • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 96 • The Melancholy Pool • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 96 • Twilight on the Snow • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 97 • The Land of Evil Stars • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 98 • Memnon at Midnight • (1918) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 98 • The Kingdom of Shadows • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 100 • Warning • (1928) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 100 • Outlanders • (1937) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 100 • Moon-Dawn • (1925) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of The Red Moon 1923)
• 101 • The Nightmare Tarn • (1929) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 102 • The Prophet Speaks • (1938) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 103 • The Outer Land • (1937) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 105 • In Thessaly • (1935) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 106 • Le miroir des blanches fleurs [French] • (1971) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 107 • Ougabalys • (1930) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 107 • The Moonlight Desert • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 108 • Desert Dweller • (1943) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 109 • Amithaine • (1951) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 110 • The Dark Chateau • (1951) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 111 • Averoigne • [Averoigne] • (1951) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 112 • Zothique • [Zothique] • (1951) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 114 • The Castle of Dreams • (1975) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 114 • The Dream-God's Realm • (1975) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 115 • Imagination • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 118 • The Last Night • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 118 • Shadow of Nightmare • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 119 • A Song of Dreams • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 120 • The Dream-Bridge • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 120 • Said the Dreamer • (1947) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 121 • Dolor of Dreams • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 122 • Luna Aeternalis • (1950) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 123 • Echo of Memnon • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 123 • Nightmare • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 124 • The Last Goddess • (1971) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 124 • Love Malevolent • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 125 • The Wingless Archangels • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 125 • Enchanted Mirrors • (1925) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 126 • Selenique • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 126 • Maya • (1925) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 127 • Fantaisie d'Antan • (1929) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 128 • In Slumber • (1934) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 129 • The Power of Eld • (1970) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 129 • Strangeness • (1917) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 130 • The Nereid • (1913) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 131 • Exotique • (1918) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 131 • Transcendence • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 132 • The Tears of Lilith • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 132 • Cleopatra • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 133 • The Refuge of Beauty • (1918) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 133 • Sandalwood • (1937) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 134 • The Last Oblivion • (1924) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 135 • Alienage • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 136 • Adventure • (1924) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 137 • Interrogation • (1925) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 138 • Canticle • (1971) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 138 • To Antares • (1971) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 139 • Connaissance • (1971) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 140 • Lamia • (1948) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 141 • Farewell to Eros • (1938) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 142 • Some Blind Eidolon • (1947) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 143 • Bacchante • (1939) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 144 • Resurrection • (1947) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 145 • The Sorcerer to His Love • (1945) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 145 • The Hill of Dionysus • (1961) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 147 • Midnight Beach • (1944) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 147 • Omniety • (1944) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 149 • Ode on Imagination • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 151 • Respect and Forecast • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 151 • To the Darkness • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 152 • A Dream of Beauty • (1911) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 153 • The Pursuer • (1957) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 153 • The Desert • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 154 • The Nameless Wraith • (1948) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 155 • To the Daemon of Sublimity • (1961) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 155 • Desolation • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 156 • Inferno • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 156 • Dissonance • (1919) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 156 • Remembered Light • (1912) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 157 • The Incubus of Time • (1961) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 158 • Laus Mortis • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 158 • The Hope of the Infinite • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 159 • Antepast • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 159 • Forgotten Sorrow • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 160 • Lunar Mystery • (1925) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 160 • The Funeral Urn • (1923) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 161 • Mors • (1971) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 161 • September • (1963) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 162 • Ennui • (1936) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 163 • To Omar Khayyam • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 165 • To Nora May French • (1922) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 167 • On Re-Reading Baudelaire • (1971) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of On Reading Baudelaire 1923)
• 168 • To George Sterling: A Valediction • (1927) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 170 • To Howard Phillips Lovecraft • (1937) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 171 • H. P. L. • (1959) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 171 • Soliloquy in an Ebon Tower • (1951) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 174 • Cycles • (1963) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 175 • Glossary (The Last Oblivion) • essay by uncredited
• 179 • Bibliography (The Last Oblivion) • essay by uncredited