Back before 1936, the Big Three dwelt is a less defined milieu of Fantasy and Horror that allowed these authors to pen a terror tale, an adventure tale, a fantastic tale, and sometimes all at the same time, as in the case of Lovecraft’s “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” (1927), Howard’s “The Shadow Kingdom” (1929) or Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Tale of Satampras Zeiros”(1929). Tolkien in the Halls of Fantasy.īut all that came after. Howard is the easiest of the three, for his Conan stories in particular, spawned an entire Fantasy boom, placing him beside J.
Only Jack Vance was able to take the brilliantly-hued visions of Smith and create something worthy in his The Dying Earth stories. Clark Ashton Smith did not have the followers that Lovecraft did but of the three he seems to be the one gaining the most critical supporters today.
Lovecraft is renowned in horror circles but he also wrote The Dreamlands stories (influenced by Lord Dunsany) that were part of his over-all concept of other realities. That’s a big claim but I base it on influence and vision. The three greatest Fantasy writers to come out of Weird Tales were H. Smith, Lovecraft and Howard…The Big Three
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