Philip Hastane  Philip Hastane is a fictional author created by Clark Ashton Smith, in many ways an analog of his creator. He too lived in a cabin in Auburn, California, and wrote poetry and weird fiction. He also associated with a large number of artists and dilettantes whom he met through letters and conferences. He is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. In many ways, he is Smith's version of H. P. Lovecraft's better-known Randolph Carter. Hastane is a character in two short stories and one novelette written by Smith; two more stories featuring the character were unfinished at the time of Smith's death in 1961.