I'm slowly working my way through Clark Aston Smith's oeuvre. These are my favorite stories so far:

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These are the books (excluding profession, technical, and reference works) I finished reading in 2011, ranked here in order of how memorable I found them.

  1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  2. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
  3. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
  4. The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs
  5. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
  6. On Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda
  7. They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
  8. The Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson Carr
  9. He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr
  10. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
  11. The Anatomy of Motive by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
  12. Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout
  13. Three Doors to Death by Rex Stout
  14. Before Midnight by Rex Stout

I'm going to try to make more time to read in 2012.

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I just read Michael Chabon's short story "The God of Dark Laughter". It's a nicely balanced concoction of Lovecraftian cosmic horror and evil clown trope, joined with a touch of theater of the absurd. It's good; you should read it. If you hunt a little, you can probably find it online.