- Because Clark Ashton Smith survived. Robert E. Howard died in 1936, H. P. Lovecraft died in 1937, and they almost immediately had friends, heirs, and fans promoting their work, reprinting it, starting the process of study and preservation of their life and work. Smith died in 1961.Jan 30, 2026 18:25
- Also, wasn’t his interest in writing fiction relatively short-lived? HPL and REH didn’t have careers that spanned *that* much longer, but around the time they died, CAS basically dropped fiction iiuc
