<p>A unique story of stargazing — a bizarre tale of life in two planets and the splendor of a far world.</p>
<p>"The Planet of the Dead" is a story by Clark Ashton Smith first published in the March 1932 issue of Weird Tales. Smith was a prolific writer who helped pioneer weird fiction, and he was one of the "big three" writing for Weird Tales, alongside Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft.</p>

A unique story of stargazing — a bizarre tale of life in two planets and the splendor of a far world. "The Planet of the Dead" is a story by Clark Ashton Smith first published in the March 1932 issue of Weird Tales. Smith was a prolific writer who helped pioneer weird fiction, and he was one of the "big three" writing for Weird Tales, alongside Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft.

"The Planet of the Dead," a short story by Clark Ashton Smith

Short science fiction stories from pulp and digest magazines of the '40s, '50s and '60s.

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"The Planet of the Dead," a short story by Clark Ashton Smith

"The Planet of the Dead," a short story by Clark Ashton Smith