More people should read Clark Ashton Smith. While Lovecraft's work may be more unsettling, Smith's wrote better prose and his work is generally more batshit crazy, often tending more toward the fantasy of his other contemporary at Weird Tales, Robert E. Howard. He was also a fine poet in the mould of Ernest Dowson or Lionel Johnson. Penguin Classics released an anthology of his short stories and poetry, edited by ST Joshi, which I highly recommend if you haven't read him before and enjoy weird fiction.
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