Horrific Lamia Tale: Clark Ashton Smith's "The Death of Ilalotha"

“Moment by moment, as if through the working of some powerful necromancy, there grew upon him a curious hallucination, and it seemed that he was again the lover of those lost nights, and had entered that bower in the palace gardens where Ilalotha waited him on a couch strewn with overblown petals, lying with bosom quiet as her face and hands.”
—Clark Ashton Smith (The Death of Ilalotha)

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We dust off the coffin for Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Death of Ilalotha”. First published in Weird Tales for their September 1937 issue, this bloodsucker sinks the fangs deep.

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