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Founded | 1939 |
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Founder | August Derleth Donald Wandrei |
Headquarters location | Sauk City, Wisconsin |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | weird fiction |
Official website | www.arkhamhouse.com |
Arkham Housewas an American publishing house specializing inweird fiction.It was founded inSauk City, Wisconsin,in 1939 byAugust DerlethandDonald Wandreito publish hardcover collections ofH. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had previously been published only inpulp magazines.The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city,Arkham,Massachusetts. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. Thecolophonfor Arkham House was designed byFrank Utpatel.
Founding
[edit]In late 1937, after Lovecraft's death, Derleth and Wandrei sought to produce a collection of their friend's best weird fiction from the pulp magazines into a memorial volume. After several failed attempts to interest major publishers in the omnibus volume, the two men realized no publisher would be willing to take a chance with the collection. Derleth and Wandrei then decided to form their own company, Arkham House with the express purpose of publishing all of Lovecraft's writings in hardcover. The omnibus volume was scheduled as the first offering from Arkham House and priced at $5.00, although advance orders were accepted at $3.50. Even at that bargain price, only 150 advance orders were received forThe Outsider and Othersbefore its release in 1939.
The Outsiderwas printed by the George Banta Co. of Wisconsin in an edition of 1,268 copies. The book was over 550 pages long with small print and featured a dustjacket by fantasy artistVirgil Finlay.The omnibus sold slowly but steadily. Derleth was a successful writer and had a good deal of revenue coming in from his writing work, which allowed him to subsidize Arkham House's operations without it needing to realize a quick profit.
A second Lovecraft omnibus,Beyond the Wall of Sleep,appeared in 1943 as sales on all Arkham House books continued to advance. By 1944, Arkham House was established as a successful small press, with four titles appearing (collections of works by Donald Wandrei, Henry S. Whitehead, Clark Ashton Smith, and a final Lovecraft omnibus). In 1945, Arkham House widened its range by publishing two novels, neither of which had seen print in any form before. These wereWitch HousebyEvangeline WaltonandThe Lurker at the Thresholdby August Derleth (based on an outline by H. P. Lovecraft). Derleth also widened Arkham's range by publishing collections of stories by well-known fantasy authors, the first beingGreen Tea and Other Ghost Storiesby the Irish authorJ. Sheridan Le Fanu.Collections by EnglishmenA.E. Coppard,H. Russell Wakefield,William Hope HodgsonandAlgernon Blackwoodfollowed in 1947. Also in 1947 were books by three American writers, including the science fiction novelSlanbyA.E. Van Vogt.Derleth must have felt he was in the wrong field asSlan,with a print run of over 4,000 copies proved to be the fastest and best selling Arkham House of the 1940s.
Arkham House published many books in the fantasy and horror field including a small but steady number throughout the 1950s.Robert Weinberghas written that: "However, intense competition from the SF (science fiction) small presses as well as slow sales of certain titles put August Derleth in a precarious bind. Only a generous loan from DrDavid H. Kellerprevented Arkham from going bankrupt during a period of cash flow problems in 1948.[1][2]Keller visited Derleth's home, "The Place of Hawks" in the company ofSam Moskowitz,the object of the visit being Derleth agreeing to publish a Keller book under the Arkham House imprint, Keller to advance Derleth a loan against the cost of the book. Derleth revealed to Keller and Moskowitz that he owed his printer $2500 and had exhausted every possible source of help. Upon Keller's return to his home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, he wrote a check for the needed sum and sent it to Derleth as a loan at 35% interest on Derleth's personal note. Reporting the transaction inThirty Years of Arkham House,Derleth adds: "I had not asked for it; he had offered it with the comment, 'I pride myself on my judgment of character.' No greater compliment could have been paid me or Arkham House.'"[3]
In the late 1960s, Arkham House seemed again on the verge of going bankrupt, but suddenly found a whole new market for its books when the surge in interest in Robert E. Howard (capitalized upon byDonald M. Grant) coincided with a surge in interest in the work of H. P. Lovecraft. All of Lovecraft's works were reprinted in three newly edited omnibus volumes, which were kept continually in print.
In addition to volumes of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction, Arkham House began to publish a five volume edition of Lovecraft'sSelected Letterswhich had been planned from the very start of the company, and which gives an overview of Lovecraft's correspondence to peers, friends and family. Among his correspondents were Arkham House founders, Derleth and Wandrei. (Arkham House's volumes of Lovecraft's letters are highly abridged; unabridged volumes of Lovecraft's letters to individual correspondents have been issued progressively byHippocampus Press). After a long slow period, Arkham House entered the 1970s with ambitious publishing plans.
Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, includingRay Bradbury,Robert E. Howard,Frank Belknap Long,Clark Ashton Smith,Robert Bloch,and Derleth himself; classicgenre fictionby authors such asWilliam Hope Hodgson(under the prompting ofHerman Charles Koenig),Algernon Blackwood,H. Russell Wakefield,Seabury Quinn,andSheridan Le Fanu;and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such asRamsey CampbellandBrian Lumleyto whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.
Despite the wealth of talented writers who appeared under the Arkham House imprint, it was not a financial success. Derleth wrote in 1970, "[T]he fact is that in no single year since its founding have the earnings of Arkham House met the expenses, so that it has been necessary for my personal earnings to shore up Arkham House finances." Robert Weinberg has stated "Arkham House's greatest flop wasWitch House,an excellent novel that took nearly two decades to go out of print. "[4]
After Derleth's death in 1971 Donald Wandrei briefly acted as editorial director but declined to resume his interest in the firm permanently.
Prior to the 1980s Arkham House did not reprint its books (with some exceptions such asSomeone in the DarkandNight's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Companyand four of the core Lovecraft collections issued in the 1960s—Dagon and Other Macabre Tales,At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels,The Horror in the MuseumandThe Dunwich Horror and Others). Rights were occasionally sold during the 1960s and 1970s to other publishers who issued paperback editions of Arkham House titles. However, this changed in the 1980s.[how?]There are now multiple printings and/or alternate editions of over 20 individual Arkham House titles.
Operation
[edit]August Derleth's children April (Rose) and Walden (Wally) Derleth now co-owned the publisher, April running the business while Wally had no direct involvement in its day-to-day operations. April earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977. She became majority stockholder, President, and CEO of Arkham House in 1994, in which capacity she remained until her death.
Wandrei was succeeded as editorial director byJames Turner.Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Turner expanded the company's range of authors to include such prominent science fiction and fantasy writers asMichael Bishop,Lucius Shepard,Bruce Sterling,James Tiptree, Jr.,Michael SheaandJ. G. Ballard,often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works. Turner's acquisitions took the publisher away from its roots in weird and horror fiction, and he was eventually dismissed by April Derleth in 1997; he went on to foundGolden Gryphon Press.
In 1997Peter Ruberwas appointed as her consulting editor and successor to James Turner. April became president of Arkham House in 2002. She made the house's mission a return to classic weird fiction, which Ruber sought to do. Ruber drew criticism[5]for the hostile opinions of various authors he expressed in his story introductions withinArkham's Masters of Horror(2000). Rumors of his ill-health circulated for some time; he eventually suffered a stroke and his editorial duties at Arkham House lapsed due to this.
The house's publishing schedule slowed considerably between 2000 and 2006, with only nine books issued—In the Stone HousebyBarry N. Malzberg(2000);Book of the DeadbyE. Hoffmann Price(a collection of memoirs of writers known by Price, 2001);Arkham House's Masters of Horror(ed. Peter Ruber, 2000);The Far Side of NowherebyNelson Bond(2002);The Cleansingby John D. Harvey (a horror novel, 2002);Selected Letters ofClark Ashton Smith(ed. Scott Connors, 2003);Cave of a Thousand Talesby Milt Thomas (a biography of pulp writerHugh B. Cave,2004);Other Worlds Than Ours,another collection by Nelson Bond (2005); andEvermore(a collection of tales in tribute toEdgar Allan Poe,ed. James Robert Smith & Stephen Mark Rainey, 2006).
In 2005 Arkham House was awarded theWorld Fantasy Awardfor Small Press Achievements—the trophy at that time was a bust ofH. P. Lovecraft.
In early 2009 it was announced that George Vanderburgh ofBattered Silicon Dispatch Box,andRobert Weinberg,would jointly take over the editorial duties at Arkham House. That year Battered Silicon Dispatch Box issued four new volumes of stories byAugust Derlethunder the umbrella title "The Macabre Quarto" under a joint imprint with Arkham House, which constituted the latter's only output since 2006.
In 2010The Arkham Sampler (1948–49)was reissued in alimited edition(250 sets) two-volume facsimile reprint of the now-rare magazine issued by Arkham House that ran four issues a year 1948–1949. This work was issued by Arkham House co-published with theAugust Derleth Society.In the same year Jon Lellenberg's novelBaker Street Irregularwas issued under the Mycroft and Moran imprint.
Status
[edit]George Vanderburgh's blog at Battered Silicon Dispatch Box announced a number of Arkham House titles for 2011 and after (the last beingEvermore), none of which had appeared as of January 2017 due to April Derleth's death on March 21, 2011.[6][7][8][9][10]The publisher's website announced in April 2011 that her children would take over the running of the firm. Danielle Jacobs was named president, and her brother Damon Derleth as vice president; they are also the current owners.George Vanderburghwould continue as house editor, as would Robert Weinberg until his death in September 2016.
No books have been issued under the Arkham House imprint in the 2020s; the press has reprinted some backlist titles. Books had previously been published almost every year from 1939 to 2010 (except for 1940, 1955/56, and 2006).
As of June 7, 2023, the Arkham House web site, arkhamhouse.com, has been down for several months. Arkham House has not made an announcement about the status of the company. It was stated on the August Derleth/Arkham House Facebook page that Arkham House is no longer in business, and they have not replied to several attempts at contact.[citation needed]As of March 2024, a pending new trademark application has been filed by Arkham House LLC of Minnesota with the USPTO office.
Other imprints
[edit]Arkham House published under two additional imprints during its history.
In 1945 theMycroft & Moranimprint was launched for the publication of weird detective and mystery stories, including Derleth'sSolar Ponsseries. The title of the imprint was inspired by characters from theSherlock Holmesstories: Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes, and the villain Colonel Sebastian Moran. Some Mycroft and Moran titles since 1993 have also been issued byBattered Silicon Dispatch Box.
Arkham also introduced Stanton & Lee Publishers in 1945 with the intention of publishing cartoons by Clare Victor Dwiggins. Stanton & Lee Publishers went on to publish poetry and the regional writings ofAugust Derleth.
August Derleth also sub-contracted certain books which were nominally published by Arkham House to other publishers, includingPellegrini & Cudahyof New York, and Villiers Publications of England.
Bibliography of works published by Arkham House
[edit]2010s
[edit]- The Arkham Sampler (1948–1949),edited by George Vanderburgh andRobert Weinberg(2010)
- Baker Street Irregular,by Jon Lellenberg (2010)
2000s
[edit]- The Macabre Quarto,byAugust Derleth
- vol. 1:Who Shall I Say Is Calling & Other Storiesedited by Stephen Dziemianowicz andRobert Weinberg(2009)
- vol. 2:The Sleepers and other Wakeful Thingsintroduced byRamsey Campbell(2009)
- vol. 3:That Is Not Deadintroduced byDavid Drake(2009)
- vol. 4:August Derleth's Eerie Creaturesintroduced byBrian Lumley(2009)
- The Shunned House Facsimile,byH. P. LovecraftandRobert Weinberg(2008)
- Evermore,edited byJames Robert Smithand Stephen Mark Rainey (2006)
- Other Worlds Than Ours,byNelson Bond(2005)
- Cave of a Thousand Tales,byMilt Thomas(2004)
- Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith,byClark Ashton Smith(2003)
- The Cleansing,byJohn D. Harvey(2002)
- The Far Side of Nowhere,byNelson Bond(2002)
- Book of the Dead,byE. Hoffmann Price(2001)
- Arkham's Masters of Horror,edited byPeter Ruber(2000)
- In the Stone House,byBarry N. Malzberg(2000)
1990s
[edit]- Sixty Years of Arkham House,edited byS. T. Joshi(1999)
- Dragonfly,byFrederic S. Durbin(1999)
- New Horizons,edited byAugust Derleth(1999)
- Lovecraft Remembered,edited byPeter Cannon(1998)
- Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies,byRobert Bloch(1998)
- Voyages by Starlight,byIan R. MacLeod(1997)
- Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities,byMary Rosenblum(1996)
- Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology,edited byJames Turner(1995)
- Miscellaneous Writings,byH. P. Lovecraft,edited byS. T. Joshi(1994)
- The Breath of Suspension,byAlexander Jablokov(1994)
- The Aliens of Earth,byNancy Kress(1993)
- Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961–1991,byRamsey Campbell(1993)
- Meeting in Infinity,byJohn Kessel(1992)
- Lord Kelvin's Machine,byJames P. Blaylock(1992)
- Gravity's Angels,byMichael Swanwick(1991)
- The Ends of the Earth,byLucius Shepard(1990)
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever,byJames Tiptree, Jr.(1990)
1980s
[edit]- Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos,byH. P. Lovecraftand Divers Hands (1989)
- Crystal Express,byBruce Sterling(1989)
- The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions,byH. P. Lovecraft(1989)
- Memories of the Space Age,byJ. G. Ballard(1988)
- A Rendezvous in Averoigne,byClark Ashton Smith(1988)
- Polyphemus,byMichael Shea(1987)
- The Jaguar Hunter,byLucius Shepard(1987)
- Tales of the Quintana Roo,byJames Tiptree, Jr.(1986)
- Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee,byTanith Lee(1986)
- Dagon and Other Macabre Tales,byH. P. Lovecraft(1986)
- At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels,byH. P. Lovecraft(1985)
- The Dunwich Horror and Others,byH. P. Lovecraft(1985)
- Lovecraft's Book,byRichard A. Lupoff(1985)
- Who Made Stevie Crye?,byMichael Bishop(1984)
- Watchers at the Strait Gate,byRussell Kirk(1984)
- One Winter in Eden,byMichael Bishop(1984)
- The Zanzibar Cat,byJoanna Russ(1983)
- The Wind from a Burning Woman,byGreg Bear(1983)
- The House of the Wolf,byBasil Copper(1983)
- The Darkling,byDavid Kesterton(1982)
- Blooded on Arachne,byMichael Bishop(1982)
- Tales from the Nightside,byCharles L. Grant(1981)
- Collected Poems,byRichard L. Tierney(1981)
- The Third Grave,byDavid Case(1981)
- New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos,edited byRamsey Campbell(1980)
- Necropolis,byBasil Copper(1980)
1970s
[edit]- The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith,byClark Ashton Smith(1979)
- The Princess of All Lands,byRussell Kirk(1979)
- In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters,byElizabeth Walter(1979)
- Half in Shadow,byMary Elizabeth Counselman(1978)
- Born to Exile,byPhyllis Eisenstein(1978)
- In Mayan Splendor,byFrank Belknap Long(1977)
- The Horror at Oakdeene and Others,byBrian Lumley(1977)
- And Afterward, the Dark,byBasil Copper(1977)
- Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales,byMarjorie Bowen(1976)
- The Height of the Scream,byRamsey Campbell(1976)
- Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers,byL. Sprague de Camp(1976)
- Dwellers in Darkness,byAugust Derleth(1976)
- Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft V (1934–1937),byH. P. Lovecraft(1976)
- Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft IV (1932–1934),byH. P. Lovecraft(1976)
- Dreams from R'lyeh,byLin Carter(1975)
- The Purcell Papers:four stories from the original collection (The Purcell Papers), along with nine otherLe Fanushort stories and apasticheof Le Fanu, "The Churchyard Yew," written by August Derleth using Le Fanu's name as a pseudonym.
- Nameless Places,edited byGerald W. Page(1975)
- The House of the Worm,byGary Myers(1975)
- Harrigan's File,byAugust Derleth(1975)
- Xélucha and Others,byM. P. Shiel(1975)
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside,byFrank Belknap Long(1975)
- The Watchers Out of Time and Others,byH. P. LovecraftandAugust Derleth(1974)
- Collected Ghost Stories,byMary E. Wilkins-Freeman(1974)
- Beneath the Moors,byBrian Lumley(1974)
- Stories of Darkness and Dread,byJoseph Payne Brennan(1973)
- From Evil's Pillow,byBasil Copper(1973)
- Demons by Daylight,byRamsey Campbell(1973)
- The Rim of the Unknown,byFrank Belknap Long(1972)
- Disclosures in Scarlet,byCarl Jacobi(1972)
- The Arkham Collector: Volume I,edited byAugust Derleth(1972)
- The Caller of the Black,byBrian Lumley(1971)
- Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft III (1929–1931),byH. P. Lovecraft(1971)
- Songs and Sonnets Atlantean,byDonald S. Fryer(1971)
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Ten: Summer, 1971
- Dark Things,edited byAugust Derleth(1971)
- Eight Tales,byWalter de la Mare(1971)
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Nine: Spring, 1971
- The Face in the Mirror,byDenys Val Baker(1971)
- Selected Poems,byClark Ashton Smith(1971)
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Eight: Winter, 1971
- The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions,byH. P. Lovecraft(1970)
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Seven: Summer, 1970
- Other Dimensions,byClark Ashton Smith(1970)
- Demons and Dinosaurs,byL. Sprague de Camp(1970)
- Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939–69: A History and Bibliography,prepared byAugust Derleth(1970)
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Six: Winter, 1970
1960s
[edit]- The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Tales,byDavid H. Keller(1969)
- Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos,byH. P. Lovecraftand Others (1969)
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Five: Summer, 1969
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Four: Winter, 1969
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Three: Summer, 1968
- Nightmares and Daydreams,byNelson Bond(1968)
- Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft II (1925–1929),byH. P. Lovecraft(1968)
- The Green Round,byArthur Machen(1968)
- The Arkham CollectorNumber Two: Winter, 1968
- Strange Gateways,byE. Hoffmann Price(1967)
- Three Tales of Horror,byH. P. Lovecraft(1967)
- The Mind Parasites,byColin Wilson(1967)
- The Arkham CollectorNumber One: Summer, 1967
- Travellers by Night,edited byAugust Derleth(1967)
- Deep Waters,byWilliam Hope Hodgson(1967)
- Black Medicine,byArthur J. Burks(1966)
- Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People,byAugust DerlethandMark Schorer(1966)
- The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces,byH. P. Lovecraft& divers hands (1966)
- Strange Harvest,byDonald Wandrei(1965)
- Something Breathing,byStanley McNail(1965)
- The Quick and the Dead,byVincent Starrett(1965)
- Dagon and Other Macabre Tales,byH. P. Lovecraft(1965)
- Poems in Prose,byClark Ashton Smith(1965)
- Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft I (1911–1924),byH. P. Lovecraft(1965)
- Tales of Science and Sorcery,byClark Ashton Smith(1964)
- Nightmare Need,byJoseph Payne Brennan(1964)
- Portraits in Moonlight,byCarl Jacobi(1964)
- At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels,byH. P. Lovecraft(1964)
- Over the Edge,edited byAugust Derleth(1964)
- Poems for Midnight,byDonald Wandrei(1964)
- The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants,byJ. Ramsey Campbell(1964)
- The Dark Man and Others,byRobert E. Howard(1963)
- Mr. George and Other Odd Persons,byStephen Grendon(1963)
- Who Fears the Devil?,byManly Wade Wellman(1963)
- Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity,byH. P. Lovecraft:annotated byAugust Derleth(1963)
- The Dunwich Horror and Others,byH. P. Lovecraft(1963)
- Collected Poems,byH. P. Lovecraft(1963)
- The Horror from the Hills,byFrank Belknap Long(1963)
- 100 Books by August Derleth,byAugust Derleth(1962)
- The Trail of Cthulhu,byAugust Derleth(1962)
- Dark Mind, Dark Heart,edited byAugust Derleth(1962)
- Lonesome Places,byAugust Derleth(1962)
- Dreams and Fancies,byH. P. Lovecraft(1962)
- The Shunned House,byH. P. Lovecraft(1961)
- Fire and Sleet and Candlelight,edited byAugust Derleth(1961)
- Strayers from Sheol,byH. Russell Wakefield(1961)
- Invaders from the Dark,byGreye La Spina(1960)
- Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares,byRobert Bloch(1960)
- The Abominations of Yondo,byClark Ashton Smith(1960)
1950s
[edit]- The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces,byH. P. Lovecraftand Divers Hands (1959)
- Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft,byAugust Derleth(1959)
- Arkham House: The First 20 Years,byAugust Derleth(1959)
- Nine Horrors and a Dream,byJoseph Payne Brennan(1958)
- The Mask of Cthulhu,byAugust Derleth(1958)
- Spells and Philtres,byClark Ashton Smith(1958)
- Always Comes Evening,byRobert E. Howard(1957)
- The Survivor and Others,byH. P. LovecraftandAugust Derleth(1957)
- The Feasting Dead,byJohn Metcalfe(1954)
- The Curse of Yig,byZealia Bishop(1953)
- Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company,edited byAugust Derleth(1952)
- Tales from Underwood,byDavid H. Keller(1952)
- The Dark Chateau,byClark Ashton Smith(1951)
- A Hornbook for Witches,byLeah Bodine Drake(1950)
1940s
[edit]- The Throne of Saturn,byS. Fowler Wright(1949)
- The Arkham Sampler,Volume II, Number Four: Autumn, 1949
- The Arkham Sampler,Volume II, Number Three: Summer, 1949
- The Arkham Sampler,Volume II, Number Two: Spring, 1949
- The Arkham Sampler,Volume II, Number One: Winter, 1949
- Something About Cats and Other Pieces,byH. P. Lovecraft(1949)
- Not Long for this World,byAugust Derleth(1948)
- Genius Loci and Other Tales,byClark Ashton Smith(1948)
- The Arkham Sampler,Volume I, Number Four: Autumn, 1948
- The Arkham Sampler,Volume I, Number Three: Summer, 1948
- The Arkham Sampler,Volume I, Number Two: Spring, 1948
- The Arkham Sampler,Volume I, Number One: Winter, 1948
- Roads,bySeabury Quinn(1948)
- The Fourth Book of Jorkens,byLord Dunsany(1948)
- The Web of Easter Island,byDonald Wandrei(1948)
- The Travelling Grave and Other Stories,byL. P. Hartley(1948)
- Night's Black Agents,byFritz Leiber, Jr.(1947)
- Revelations in Black,byCarl Jacobi(1947)
- Dark Carnival,byRay Bradbury(1947)
- Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre,edited byAugust Derleth(1947)
- This Mortal Coil,byCynthia Asquith(1947)
- Slan,byA. E. van Vogt(1946)
- The Clock Strikes Twelve,byH. Russell Wakefield(1946)
- Fearful Pleasures,byA. E. Coppard(1946)
- West India Lights,byHenry S. Whitehead(1946)
- Skull-Face and Others,byRobert E. Howard(1946)
- The House on the Borderland and Other Novels,byWilliam Hope Hodgson(1946)
- The Doll and One Other,byAlgernon Blackwood(1946)
- The Hounds of Tindalos,byFrank Belknap Long(1946)
- The Lurker at the Threshold,byH. P. LovecraftandAugust Derleth(1945)
- Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories,byJ. Sheridan LeFanu(1945)
- Witch House,byEvangeline Walton(1945)
- The Opener of the Way,byRobert Bloch(1945)
- Something Near,byAugust Derleth(1945)
- MarginaliabyH. P. Lovecraft(1944)
- Lost Worlds,byClark Ashton Smith(1944)
- Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales,byHenry S. Whitehead(1944)
- The Eye and the Finger,byDonald Wandrei(1944)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep,byH. P. Lovecraft(1943)
- Out of Space and Time,byClark Ashton Smith(1942)
- Someone in the Dark,byAugust Derleth(1941)
1939
[edit]References
[edit]- Citations
- ^Robert Weinberg, "Science Fiction Specialty Publishers" in Hall, Hal W. (ed).Science Fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural and Weird Tales.Haworth Press, 1983, p. 126
- ^Sam Moskowitz, "I Remember Derleth",Starship(Winter 1981), pp. 10–11
- ^Lloyd Arthur Eshbach,Over My Shoulder: Reflections on a Science Fiction Era.Philadelphia: Oswald Train, Publisher, 1983, pp. 158–159
- ^Robert Weinberg, "Science Fiction Specialty Publishers" in Hall, Hal W. (ed).Science Fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural and Weird Tales.Haworth Press, 1983, p. 129
- ^"THE LOVECRAFT EXPERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH S.T. JOSHI".Innsmouth Free Press.Archived fromthe originalon February 19, 2015.RetrievedFebruary 18,2015.
- ^Locus Publications (March 22, 2011)."Locus Online News » April R. Derleth (1954–2011)".Locusmag.com.RetrievedNovember 17,2012.
- ^Steven H Silver (March 22, 2011)."SF Site News » Obituary: April R. Derleth".Sfsite.com. Archived fromthe originalon October 22, 2012.RetrievedNovember 17,2012.
- ^Ian Randal Strock (March 22, 2011)."Publisher April R. Derleth Dies".SFScope.
- ^"April Derleth – Summary Bibliography".Isfdb.org.RetrievedNovember 17,2012.
- ^"Longtime operator of publishing firm dies".The Sauk Prairie Eagle.Wiscnews.com. March 28, 2011.RetrievedNovember 17,2012.
- Further Reading
- Barrett, Mike. "Arkham House: Sundry Observations".Dark Horizons(Mar 2010); expanded reprint in hisDoors to Elsewhere.Cheadle, Staffordshire UK: Alchemy Press, 2013, pp. 17–43.
- Heffley, C. E. "Arkham House: A Remembrance" in David Barker, ed.The Lovecrafter – 100th Anniversary issue: An Anthology in Celebration of the Centennial of the Birth of H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1990).Salem, OR: David Barker, 1990: 29–32.
- Lorraine, Daniel W. "Collecting Lovecraft Arkhams".The New Lovecraft CollectorNo 1 (Winter 1993), p. 4.
- Bibliography
- Chalker, Jack L.;Mark Owings (1998).The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998.Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.
- Jaffery, Sheldon(1989).The Arkham House Companion.Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.ISBN1-55742-005-X.
- Joshi, S. T.(2009).Classics and Contemporaries: Some Notes on Horror Fiction.New York: Hippocampus Press.ISBN978-0-9814888-3-7..See "Arkham House and Its Legacy", pp 1–27.
- Joshi, S. T.(1999).Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography.Sauk City, WI: Arkham House.ISBN0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004).Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide.Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.ISBN0-7864-1785-4.
External links
[edit]- Arkham House Publishers
- The Authors and Editors of Arkham House
- Inventory of the Arkham House Collection at University of Texas Libraries
- Picture of "Arkham House: A Retrospective" panel at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention, Madison Wisconsin (picture includes Walden Derleth)
- Picture of April and Walden Derleth representing Arkham House at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention, Madison, Wisconsin
- Arkham House Still Publishing in Its 65th Year
- "The Black Seas of Copyright: Arkham House and the H. P. Lovecraft Copyrights" by Chris J. Karr
- "The Origins of Arkham House" by D.J. QuinnArchivedJune 21, 2010, at theWayback Machine
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