“The Nameless Offspring” by Clark Ashton Smith [audio recording]

About this episode

This episode explores Clark Ashton Smith's story 'The Nameless Offspring', delving into themes of family secrets and horror.

Clark Ashton Smith was a poet once called “The Last of the Great Romantics".” But he is more remembered as one of the three most significant writers of pulp mainstay Weird Tales. H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith who was perhaps even stranger in his vision than either of them. “The Nameless Offspring” first appeared in Strange Tales in 1932. A tale of family secrets, a haunted manor, and a beast we’d now refer to as a Pale Crawler.

Topics covered

• pulp fiction
• Weird Tales
• family secrets
• haunted manor
• Clark Ashton Smith
• horror

Keywords

• Clark Ashton Smith
• The Nameless Offspring
• Weird Tales
• pulp fiction
• horror
• Strange Tales
• family secrets

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Nameless Offspring, Weird Tales, Strange Tales

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