"The Empire of the Necromancers" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the September 1932 issue of Weird Tales.
Title page of "The Empire of the Necromancers" as it appeared in Weird Tales, September 1932.
Avon published three related magazines in the late 1940s and early 1950s, titled Avon Fantasy Reader, Avon Science Fiction Reader, and Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader. These were digest size m
The Empire of the Necromancers
…published in the September 1932 issue of Weird Tales. It was included in the books Lost Worlds (1944), Zothique (1970); and the September 1948 issue of Avon Fantasy Reader. Two necromancers from the land of Naat, Mmatmuor and Sodosma, travel to Tinarath to exhume and reanimate the dead. They are soon shunned by its…
Cover of the first issue
Cover of the eighteenth issue