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Title: Arkham House: The First 20 Years; 1939-1959
Author: August Derleth
Release date: June 8, 2025 [eBook #76245]
Language: English
Original publication: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1959
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ARKHAM HOUSE:
THE FIRST 20 YEARS
1939-1959
A History
and Bibliography
prepared
by August Derleth
ARKHAM HOUSE: Publishers
Sauk City, Wisconsin 1959
Though it was not immediately foreseen, Arkham House had its inception
in the death of Howard Phillips Lovecraft on March 15, 1937. The
first word of Lovecraft’s death came in a letter from the late Howard
Wandrei, then in New York, a letter I read on my way into the marshes
below Sauk City, where I had intended to spend an afternoon reading
Thoreau’s _Journal_. Instead, I sat at a railroad trestle beside the
brook and considered ways and means of putting together Lovecraft’s
best works and bringing them out in book form.
I was under no illusions about the difficulty of persuading a New York
publisher to bring out such a collection, for, in the broadest sense,
Lovecraft was relatively obscure, he wrote in a vein for which there
has never been too large an audience, and all his previous submissions
of book manuscripts to publishers like Putnam, Knopf and others had
been futile--though it should be said in favor of the publishers and
their readers that Lovecraft, certain of their failure, customarily
submitted dog-eared, hardly legible manuscripts, which were certainly
enough to discourage all but the most hardy reader.
Once back at my typewriter later that afternoon, I wrote Donald Wandrei
that something should be done to keep Lovecraft’s work in print; he
replied that collecting only the stories, as I had thought to do, was
not enough--all the work should be collected and eventually published,
including the marvellously instructive and entertaining letters. I
lost no further time in collecting and arranging the stories, which
were put into typescript by my then secretary, Alice Conger, and
immediately submitted to Charles Scribner’s Sons. Scribner’s were at
that time my own publishers, and, while sympathetic to the project and
cognizant of the literary value of Lovecraft’s fiction, rejected the
manuscript because the cost of producing so bulky a book, combined with
the public’s then sturdy resistance to buying short story collections
and the comparative obscurity of H. P. Lovecraft as a writer, made
the project financially prohibitive. Simon & Schuster, to whom the
manuscript was next submitted, likewise rejected, for similar reasons.
It was at this point that the idea of publishing the omnibus under an
imprint of our own occurred to me and took hold. I wrote again to
Donald Wandrei, setting forth my plan. Both of us were impecunious
writers--and how rare is the writer who is not!--but I was at that time
building a home for which a local bank had advanced a considerable loan
(not, however, without four times the amount of the loan in collateral,
as is the invariable custom of banks), and it occurred to me that there
was one manifest course open to a would-be publisher--to advertise for
advance prepaid orders, and to pay off the printer from the sum of my
loan. To this, Donald Wandrei added what small sum he could scrape
together at that time, at great personal sacrifice; and, with the full
co-operation of Lovecraft’s surviving aunt, Mrs. Annie E. Phillips
Gamwell, and Robert H. Barlow, the project took shape.
There was never any question about the name of our publishing house.
_Arkham House_ suggested itself at once, since it was Lovecraft’s
own well-known, widely-used place-name for legend-haunted Salem,
Massachusetts, in his remarkable fiction; it seemed to us that
this was fitting and that Lovecraft himself would have approved it
enthusiastically. And, once the project had been decided upon, there
was never any question about the printer chosen to do it--we turned
at once to the nearest, most widely-known printer--the George Banta
Company of Menasha, Wisconsin, whose plant was only a hundred miles
distant.
But by this time two years had elapsed since Lovecraft’s death, and by
the time initial announcements of the work appeared in _Weird Tales_,
offering prepaid advance-ordered copies of _The Outsider and Others_--a
title selected because it had been once mentioned by Lovecraft himself
as a possible title for a collection of his work, and because Lovecraft
was in a very real sense, as well as in his own concept of himself, an
outsider in the twentieth century--the book was being made ready for
publication, Donald Wandrei was reading proof, and labels were being
printed for shipment of copies. Advance-ordered, prepaid copies of the
book were offered at $3.50 the copy, in contrast to the published price
of $5.00 for the omnibus, of which 1,268 copies were delivered to me in
late 1939.
Incredible as it may seem to today’s ardent searchers for that first
Lovecraft collection, orders at $3.50 the copy came in very slowly.
By publication, only 150 prepaid orders had come in. To the sum thus
collected, Donald Wandrei added $400.00; the remainder of the not
small sum was lifted, much to the horror of the local bankers, from
my loan (though it was soon replaced--not out of earnings from sales,
but out of my personal income from various writing projects). The book
did not lack publicity; our venture was given generous space in the
_Publishers’ Weekly_ and other trade media, though it was so thoroughly
ignored locally that even today, after two decades, not one in fifty
persons in Sauk City and the area of the village could identify Arkham
House if asked to do so by an outsider.
_The Outsider and Others_ sold with discouraging slowness.
Nevertheless, it seemed to me, judging by the enthusiasm shown by
buyers, that there might be a market for small editions of books in
the general field of fantasy, perhaps with emphasis on the macabre
or science-fiction. To that end, I prepared early in 1941 a slender
collection of my own best stories in the genre and submitted them,
according to my contractual obligations, to Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Up to this time there had been no thought of publishing through Arkham
House the work of anyone but H. P. Lovecraft; it remained for William
C. Weber of Scribner’s to suggest that my collection, _Someone in the
Dark_, ought properly to be published under the Arkham House imprint,
since a specialized house could very probably do better with such a
book than could Scribner’s.
After much soul-searching, I took Weber’s advice, and brought out
_Someone in the Dark_ at $2.00 the copy. This had the additional effect
of keeping the Arkham House imprint before the public eye while other
Lovecraft works were in preparation. When the initial costs of the
second Arkham House book were met before those of _The Outsider and
Others_, I began to explore the possibility of publishing further books
in the field. Despite the fact that because of his induction into the
U. S. Army, where he served four years, Donald Wandrei was forced to
sever all but the most cursory connection with Arkham House in 1942,
that year saw publication of the third Arkham House title, Clark Ashton
Smith’s _Out of Space and Time_, at $3.00 the copy.
The three-dollar price seemed to be the most satisfactory one; the
publishers could honestly show that $2.00 was too little, and readers
had complained that $5.00 was too much for a book in 1939--though some
of those same plaintiffs, having refused _The Outsider and Others_
at $5.00, paid $25.00 and $35.00 for it ten years later, even $50.00
and $65.00. Yet the $5.00 price had to be maintained for the omnibus
collections, and in 1943 the second Lovecraft omnibus, _Beyond the Wall
of Sleep_, was published in an edition limited by wartime restrictions
to but 1,217 copies.
The first quartet of books to bear the imprint of Arkham
House--published from 1939 to 1944--though getting off to a slow
selling start with the initial Lovecraft title, had by the end of 1943
gained such momentum that it was obvious that few if any of these books
would be left for sale by the end of 1944. _The Outsider and Others_
took four years to sell out its only printing, and actually, what with
overhead and other costs, it took approximately that long to return
our initial investment. But by 1944 it was manifest that there was
a distinct--if relatively small--market for collections of weird,
fantastic, science-fiction short stories, and I determined to publish
as many such collections as possible, with emphasis on the hitherto
unpublished, but not scorning works long out of print.
Pushing ahead, I commissioned Frank Utpatel, the Wisconsin artist who
had done the illustrations for Lovecraft’s _The Shadow Over Innsmouth_
in 1936, to design a house colophon. This made its first appearance in
our next book, Donald Wandrei’s _The Eye and the Finger_. In addition
to this title, three other Arkham House titles appeared in 1944; they
were Henry S. Whitehead’s _Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales_; Clark
Ashton Smith’s _Lost Worlds_, and _Marginalia_, by H. P. Lovecraft,
with contributions by others. By the end of 1945, the Arkham House list
had been augmented by the addition of my own Something Near; Robert
Bloch’s _The Opener of the Way_; the first Arkham House fantasy novel,
Evangeline Walton’s _Witch House_; J. Sheridan LeFanu’s _Green Tea
and Other Ghost Stories_; and _The Lurker at the Threshold_, a novel
suggested in notes and fragments written by Lovecraft, finished by
myself.
The year 1945 was also the year in which Arkham House introduced two
allied imprints--Mycroft & Moran, specializing in off-trail sleuthing
tales, the first of which was my own _“In Re: Sherlock Holmes”--The
Adventures of Solar Pons_, a collection of pastiches of Sherlock
Holmes published at the urging of Vincent Starrett, who wrote the
introduction for the volume, and Ellery Queen, who was to write the
introduction for the later _The Memoirs of Solar Pons_; and Stanton
& Lee, which concentrated on reprints or on collections of comic
cartoons, principally those by the late Clare Victor Dwiggins, and
which made its bow with Dwig’s _Bill’s Diary_, the Derleth-Dwig
juvenile for pixilated adults, _Oliver_, _the Wayward Owl_, and a new
printing of my Scribner novel, _Evening in Spring_, from the Scribner
plates. The Mycroft & Moran imprint came straight out of the Holmes
canon--from Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s illustrious brother, and Colonel
Sebastian Moran, the second most dangerous man in London. The house
colophon was designed as a deerstalker by Ronald Clyne. Stanton & Lee
took rise from the names of two friends, one an employee; its colophons
were designed by Howard Wandrei--which appeared only in _Evening in
Spring_--and by Ronald Clyne.
Publication of the initial LeFanu collection, of stories long out of
print in America, marked the beginning of Arkham House’s importation
of titles from abroad. Since many of the best writers in the genre
were British, it seemed to me necessary to add to our list such names
as would bring prestige to the Arkham House imprint. Thus, the year
1946 witnessed publication of four British importations--Algernon
Blackwood’s last book of new work, _The Doll and One Other_; A. E.
Coppard’s _Fearful Pleasures_; H. Russell Wakefield’s _The Clock
Strikes Twelve_, and an omnibus reprint of four novels--William Hope
Hodgson’s _The House on the Borderland and Other Novels_; as well as
three books by members of the Lovecraft circle of writers who, like
him, contributed primarily to _Weird Tales_ in earlier years--Frank
Belknap Long’s _The Hounds of Tindalos_; Robert E. Howard’s _Skull-Face
and Others_; and Henry S. Whitehead’s _West India Lights_, together
with the first Arkham House science-fiction novel, the popular
_Astounding Science-Fiction_ serial, _Slan_, by A. E. Van Vogt.
The year 1946 was in a sense a year of publishing instruction. It
was not until that year, for example, that I finally learned what
the average size of a printing ought to be--not 4,000, which some
of our books had run, but 2,000, with occasional printings of up to
3,000. By that year the limited space in my home was being taken up
by Arkham House stock, despite the fact that books sold rapidly.
The experiences of that year also demonstrated conclusively that a
small publishing business like Arkham House could afford very little
overhead. Indeed, had it not been for the pouring into Arkham House of
$25,000 of personal income from my writing over the first ten years,
the House could not have survived. I had come to publishing without any
previous experience, other than a limited editorial stint with Fawcett
Publications, with which I had been associated briefly in 1930-31; and
I had to learn step by step, often painfully, invariably expensively.
In 1946, production costs had begun to rise also, still further cutting
into any possible profit margin, since the price of Arkham House books
remained fixed.
Nevertheless, despite increased costs of publication, Arkham House in
1947 released Lady Cynthia Asquith’s _This Mortal Coil_; Ray Bradbury’s
first distinguished collection, _Dark Carnival_ (later revised and
issued under the Ballantine imprint as _The October Country_); Carl
Jacobi’s _Revelations in Black_; my own anthology of fantastic and
macabre poetry, _Dark of the Moon_; Fritz Leiber Jr.’s _Night’s Black
Agents_; and, under the Mycroft & Moran imprint, William Hope Hodgson’s
_Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder_, a far more comprehensive collection than
the British edition of almost forty years before, since it contained
three new stories, two never before printed, discovered among Hodgson’s
manuscripts by his sister.
In 1948, in addition to the publication of five titles, Arkham House
brought out its only illustrated book, Seabury Quinn’s _Roads_, with
pictures by Virgil Finlay, and inaugurated the publication of a
literary quarterly, _The Arkham Sampler_, devoted to matters fantastic,
publishing fiction, poetry, letters, articles, bibliographical data,
_et alia_, to sell at $1.00 the copy. This venture, however, was
ill-fated; it was begun in a falling market and at a time of greatly
increased production costs, and, while the subscription to the first
four issues readily met costs, that for the second year, 1949, failed
to do so, and the magazine--which was taking an inexcusably large
amount of the editor-publisher’s time--was reluctantly discontinued,
since Arkham House could not publish it at a loss of both time and
money.
The close of the first decade of publishing saw a substantial number of
Arkham House titles out of print--_The Outsider and Others_, _Someone
in the Dark_, _Out of Space and Time_, _Beyond the Wall of Sleep_, _The
Eye and the Finger_, _Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales_, _Lost Worlds_,
_Marginalia_, _Something Near_, _The Opener of the Way_, _Slan_, _Green
Tea and Other Ghost Stories_--and selling for fantastic prices in the
out-of-print shops. Recent titles had doubled in value, and the rare
first Arkham House book had been reported as sold at $100.00 for a
pristine copy. In addition, adjunctive books prepared by the editor
for release under the Rinehart imprint out of New York--anthologies
like _Sleep No More_, _Who Knocks?_ and _The Night Side_--were likewise
out of print, and others, prepared for Pellegrini & Cudahy, were being
reprinted--_The Sleeping and the Dead_, _Strange Ports of Call_, _The
Other Side of the Moon_. Most significant of all, by 1950 almost a
dozen other small houses had mushroomed into existence to follow
the lead of Arkham House, and several major publishing houses were
bringing out science-fiction.
Nevertheless, it was evident that the crest of the wave of interest
in fantasy had been reached, and that the recession was certain to
follow. Arkham House therefore prepared, after but two books in 1949,
to hedge the ambitious program announced in that year. A cautious,
if predominantly optimistic conservatism prevailed; had it been
otherwise, Arkham House would certainly have shared the fate of most
of its imitators, which, lacking any real editorial guidance from
people widely-read in the field, spewed forth many books of no merit
whatsoever, cluttered the market, and succeeded in turning away
potential buyers from the field in general.
When, in the mid-fifties, Arkham House began to resume a publishing
schedule, production costs were so high that the price range could no
longer be held. The entry of competitive publishers in the genre had
had one other unhappy effect which directly influenced the decision
in regard to prices--whereas, heretofore, between 400 and 600 patrons
of Arkham House sent in prepaid orders for each announced title, thus
enabling Arkham House to meet printer’s bills within a reasonable time
and assure the continuance of a publishing program, such advance-order
patrons had now been reduced to between 100 and 200, not enough to
give permanence to any program. A disproportionate share of sales was
now being made through the trade which, however welcome, meant the
introduction of middlemen--wholesalers and retailers--into what had
been primarily a publisher-reader mail order operation. This resulted
in a vital slashing of potential income in the face of a very high and
increasing production cost, so that the old $3.00 price could be held
only for collections of verse or very slender collections of stories,
while other books had to go to $3.50 and $4.00, and even, in some
cases, to $5.00, though the $4.00 price was to become the average.
All Arkham House books--together with those under the Mycroft & Moran
and Stanton & Lee imprints--have been printed and bound by the George
Banta Company, with the exception of _The Arkham Sampler_, which was
produced by the Howe Printing Company of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin,
and _Night’s Yawning Peal_ and _Tales from Underwood_, which were
published jointly with Pellegrini & Cudahy of New York, an arrangement
which did not work out satisfactorily and was soon terminated. All
Arkham House books were printed from type set and broken down after but
one printing, except for _The Memoirs of Solar Pons_, which was plated,
for use as a selection of The Unicorn Mystery Book Club.
For Arkham House jackets, various artists have been called upon,
chiefly, however, Ronald Clyne of New York, and Frank Utpatel of
Wisconsin. Among other artists who designed jackets for Arkham House
were Frank Wakefield, Howard Wandrei, Virgil Finley, Robert F.
Hubbell, George Barrows, Hannes Bok, Audrey Johnson, R. Taylor, and
Gary Gore.
During its first twenty years, Arkham House cancelled publication plans
for certain books. Among these were J. Sheridan LeFanu’s novel, _The
House by the Churchyard_, and the anthology, _The Death Fetch and Other
Gothic Tales_, edited by Stephen Grendon, both of which would have
proved too costly to bring out, and would, on the basis of interest
expressed, have sold far too slowly to warrant publishing. Among these
also were the late Henry Kuttner’s _Mimsy Were the Borogoves_ and C.
L. Moore’s _Shambleau and Other Tales_, which were announced, but not
published because authors and publisher could not agree on contractual
terms. Certain other announced titles--A. E. Van Vogt’s _Away and
Beyond_ and _The World of Null-A_, and Fritz Leiber Jr.’s _Gather,
Darkness!_ and _Conjure Wife_, were released to other publishers who
could do more for them.
Arkham House faces the coming years with confidence. Added to the
bibliography which is appended, Arkham House hopes and expects to
publish, among others, the following books within the coming years:
THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO, by Clark Ashton Smith
INVADERS FROM THE DARK, by Greye La Spina
THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU, by August Derleth
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL, by H. Russell Wakefield
PLEASANT DREAMS, by Robert Bloch
SELECTED LETTERS, by H. P. Lovecraft
THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS, by Frank Belknap Long
THE PURCELL PAPERS, by J. Sheridan LeFanu
MR. GEORGE AND OTHER ODD PERSONS, by Stephen Grendon
TIME BURIAL, by Howard Wandrei
THREE TALES, by Walter de la Mare
RADIANT MAN, by Donald Wandrei
TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY, by Clark Ashton Smith
HALF IN SHADOW, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
PORTRAITS BY MOONLIGHT, by Carl Jacobi
XELUCHA AND OTHERS, by M. P. Shiel
STRANGE GATEWAYS, by E. Hoffmann Price
LONESOME PLACES, by August Derleth
THE GREEN ROUND, by Arthur Machen
WORSE THINGS WAITING, by Manly Wade Wellman
BLACK MEDICINE, by Arthur J. Burks
COLONEL MARKESAN AND LESS PLEASANT
PEOPLE, by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
COLLECTED POEMS, by Donald Wandrei
THE WIND IN THE CEDARS, by August Derleth
SELECTED POEMS, by Clark Ashton Smith
COLLECTED POEMS, by H. P. Lovecraft
THE WATCHERS OUT OF TIME, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
and, under the Mycroft & Moran imprint,
THE REMINISCENCES OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth
PRINCE ZALESKI & CUMMINGS KING MONK, by M. P. Shiel
THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth
and Stanton & Lee,
EVERETT TRUE, by A. D. Condo
Bibliography
THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS, by H. P. Lovecraft. Collected by August
Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1939.
pp. xiv., 553. $5.00. 1,268 copies printed. Contents: _Howard Phillips
Lovecraft: Outsider_, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei / _Dagon_ /
_Polaris_ / _Celephais/Hypnos_ / _The Cats of Ulthar_ / _The Strange
High House in the Mist_ / _The Statement of Randolph Carter_ / _The
Silver Key_ / _Through the Gates of the Silver Key_ / _The Outsider_
/ _The Music of Erich Zann_ / _The Rats in the Walls_ / _Cool Air_
/ _He_ / _The Horror at Red Hook_ / _The Temple_ / _Arthur Jermyn_
/ _The Picture in the House_ / _The Festival_ / _The Terrible Old
Man_ / _The Tomb_ / _The Shunned House_ / _In the Vault_ / _Pickman’s
Model_ / _The Haunter of the Dark_ / _The Dreams in the Witch-House_
/ _The Thing on the Doorstep_ / _The Nameless City_ / _The Lurking
Fear_ / _The Call of Cthulhu_ / _The Colour out of Space_ / _The
Dunwich Horror_ / _The Whisperer in Darkness_ / _The Shadow over
Innsmouth_ / _The Shadow out of Time_ / _At the Mountains of Madness_
/ _Supernatural Horror in Literature_.
SOMEONE IN THE DARK, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1941. pp. 335. $2.00. 1,115 copies printed. Contents: _When
the Night and the House Are Still_ / _Glory Hand_ / _Compliments of
Spectro_ / _A Gift for Uncle Herman_ / _McGovern’s Obsession_ / _Three
Gentlemen in Black_ / _Muggridge’s Aunt_ / _Bramwell’s Guardian_ /
_Joliper’s Gift_ / _Altimer’s Amulet_ / _The Shuttered House_ / _The
Sheraton Mirror_ / _The Wind from the River_ / _The Telephone in the
Library_ / _The Panelled Room_ / _The Return of Hastur_ / _The Sandwin
Compact_.
OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1942. pp. xii., 370. $3.00. 1,054 copies printed.
Contents: _Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy_, by August Derleth &
Donald Wandrei / _The End of the Story_ / _A Rendezvous in Averoigne_
/ _A Night in Malnéant_ / _The City of the Singing Flame_ / _The
Uncharted Isle_ / _The Second Interment_ / _The Double Shadow_ / _The
Chain of Aforgomon_ / _The Dark Eidolon_ / _The Last Hieroglyph_ /
_Sadastor_ / _The Death of Ilalotha_ / _The Return of the Sorcerer_
/ _The Testament of Athammaus_ / _The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan_
/ _Ubbo-Sathla_ / _The Monster of the Prophecy_ / _The Vaults of
Yoh-Vombis_ / _From the Crypts of Memory_ / _The Shadows_.
BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP, by H. P. Lovecraft. Collected by August
Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1943.
pp. xxix., 458. $5.00. 1,217 copies printed. Contents: _By Way of
Introduction_, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei / _Autobiography:
Some Notes on a Nonentity_ / _The Commonplace Book_ / _History and
Chronology of the_ Necronomicon / _Memory_ / _What the Moon Brings_
/ _Nyarlathotep_ / _Ex Oblivione_ / _The Tree_ / _The Other Gods_ /
_The Quest of Iranon_ / _The Doom That Came to Sarnath_ / _The White
Ship_ / _From Beyond_ / _Beyond the Wall of Sleep_ / _The Unnamable_
/ _The Hound_ / _The Moon-Bog_ / _The Evil Clergyman_ / _Herbert
West--Reanimator_ / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_ / _The Case
of Charles Dexter Ward_ / _The Crawling Chaos_ (with Elizabeth
Berkeley) / _The Green Meadow_ (with Elizabeth Berkeley) / _The Curse
of Yig_, by Zealia Brown-Reed / _The Horror in the Museum_, by Hazel
Heald / _Out of the Eons_, by Hazel Heald / _The Mound_, by Zealia
Brown-Reed / _The Diary of Alonzo Typer_, by William Lumley / _The
Challenge from Beyond_ (with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E.
Howard, and Frank Belknap Long) / _In the Walls of Eryx_ (with Kenneth
Sterling) / _Ibid_ / _Sweet Ermengarde_ / _Providence_ / _On a Grecian
Colonnade in a Park_ / _Old Christmas_ / _New England Fallen_ / _On
a New England Village Seen by Moonlight_ / _Astrophobos_ / _Sunset_
/ _A Year Off_ / _A Summer Sunset and Evening_ / _To Mistress Sophia
Simple,_ _Queen of the Cinema_ / _The Ancient Track_ / _The Eidolon_
/ _The Nightmare Lake_ / _The Outpost_ / _The Rutted Road_ / _The
Wood_ / _Hallowe’en in a Suburb_ / _Primavera_ / _October_ / _To a
Dreamer_ / _Despair_ / _Nemesis_ / _Psychopompos_ / _The Book_ /
_Pursuit_ / _The Key_ / _Recognition_ / _Homecoming_ / _The Lamp_ /
_Zaman’s Hill_ / _The Port_ / _The Courtyard_ / _The Pigeon-Flyers_ /
_The Well_ / _The Howler_ / _Hesperia_ / _Star-Winds_ / _Antarktos_
/ _The Window_ / _A Memory_ / _The Gardens of Yin_ / _The Bells_ /
_Night-Gaunts_ / _Nyarlathotep_ / _Azathoth_ / _Mirage_ / _The Canal_
/ _St. Toad’s_ / _The Familiars_ / _The Elder Pharos_ / _Expectancy_ /
_Nostalgia_ / _Background_ / _The Dweller_ / _Alienation_ / _Harbour
Whistles_ / _Recapture_ / _Evening Star_ / _Continuity_ / _Yule
Horror_ / _To Mr. Finlay_ / _To Clark Ashton Smith_ / _Where Once Poe
Walked_ / _Christmas Greeting to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell_ / _Brick Row_
/ _The Messenger_ / _The Cthulhu Mythology: a Glossary_, by Francis T.
Laney / _An Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft_, by W. Paul Cook.
THE EYE AND THE FINGER, by Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1944. pp. xiii., 344. $3.00. 1,617 copies printed.
Contents: _Introduction_ / _The Lady in Gray_ / _The Eye and the
Finger_ / _The Painted Mirror_ / _It Will Grow on You_ / _The Tree-Men
of M’Bwa_ / _The Lives of Alfred Kramer_ / _The Monster from Nowhere_
/ _The Witch-Makers_ / _The Nerveless Man_ / _Black Fog_ / _The
Blinding Shadows_ / _A Scientist Divides_ / _Earth Minus_ / _Finality
Unlimited_ / _The Crystal Bullet_ / _A Fragment of a Dream_ / _The
Woman at the Window_ / _The Messengers_ / _The Pursuers_ / _The Red
Brain_ / _On the Threshold of Eternity_.
JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES, by Henry S. Whitehead. Arkham House,
Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. xii., 394. $3.00. 1,559 copies
printed. Contents: _Henry S. Whitehead_, by R. H. Barlow / _Jumbee_ /
_Cassius_ / _Black Tancrède_ / _The Shadows_ / _Sweet Grass_ / _The
Black Beast_ / _Seven Turns in a Hangman’s Rope_ / _The Tree-Man_ /
_Passing of a God_ / _Mrs. Lorriquer_ / _Hill Drums_ / _The Projection
of Armand Dubois_ / _The Lips_ / _The Fireplace_.
LOST WORLDS, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1944. pp. 419. $3.00. 2,043 copies printed. Contents: _The
Tale of Satampra Zeiros_ / _The Door to Saturn_ / _The Seven Geases_
/ _The Coming of the White Worm_ / _The Last Incantation_ / _A Voyage
to Sfanomoë_ / _The Death of Malygris_ / _The Holiness of Azédarac_
/ _The Beast of Averoigne_ / _The Empire of the Necromancers_ / _The
Isle of the Torturers_ / _Necromancy in Naat_ / _Xeethra_ / _The Maze
of Maal Dweb_ / _The Flower-Women_ / _The Demon of the Flower_ / _The
Plutonian Drug_ / _The Planet of the Dead_ / _The Gorgon_ / _The
Letter from Mohaun Los_ / _The Light from Beyond_ / _The Hunters from
Beyond_ / _The Treader of the Dust_.
MARGINALIA, by H. P. Lovecraft. Collected by August Derleth and Donald
Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. x., 377. 2,035
copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by August Derleth & Donald
Wandrei / _Imprisoned With the Pharaohs_, by Houdini / _Medusa’s
Coil_, by Zealia Brown (Reed) Bishop / _Winged Death_, by Hazel Heald
/ _The Man of Stone_, by Hazel Heald / _Notes on the Writing of Weird
Fiction_ / _Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction_ / _Lord Dunsany
and His Work_ / _Heritage or Modernism; Common Sense in Art Forms_ /
_Some Backgrounds of Fairyland_ / _Some Causes of Self-Immolation_ /
_A Guide to Charleston, South Carolina_ / _Observations on Several
Parts of North America_ / _The Beast in the Cave_ / _The Transition
of Juan Romero_ / _Azathoth_ / _The Book_ / _The Descendant_ / _The
Very Old Folk_ / _The Thing in the Moonlight_ / _Two Comments_ /
_His Own Most Fantastic Creation_, by Winfield Townley Scott /
_Some Random Memories of H. P. L._, by Frank Belknap Long / _H. P.
Lovecraft: An Appreciation_, by T. O. Mabbott / _The Wind That Is in
the Grass: A Memoir of H. P. Lovecraft in Florida_, by R. H. Barlow
/ _Lovecraft and Science_, by Kenneth Sterling / _Lovecraft as a
Formative Influence_, by August Derleth / _The Dweller in Darkness_,
by Donald Wandrei / _To Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Clark Ashton
Smith / _H. P. L._, by Henry Kuttner / _Lost Dream_, by Emil Petaja /
_To Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Francis Flagg / _H. P. Lovecraft_,
by Frank Belknap Long / _Elegy: In Providence the Spring ...,_, by
August Derleth / _For the Outsider: H. P. Lovecraft_, by Charles E.
White / _In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft_, by Richard Ely Morse. With
illustrations, photographs, drawings by Lovecraft, and reproduction of
_Lament for H. P. L._, by Alfred Galpin.
SOMETHING NEAR, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin,
1945. pp. 274. 2,054 copies printed. Contents: _A Thin Gentleman with
Gloves_ / _Mr. Ames’ Devil_ / _A Wig for Miss Devore_ / _Mrs. Corter
Makes Up Her Mind_ / _Pacific 421_ / _Headlines for Tod Shayne_ /
_No Light for Uncle Henry_ / _Lansing’s Luxury_ / _Carousel_ / _Lady
Macbeth of Pimley Square_ / _Here, Daemos!_ / _McElwin’s Glass_ /
_An Elegy for Mr. Danielson_ / _The Satin Mask_ / _Motive_ / _The
Metronome_ / _The Inverness Cape_ / _The Thing That Walked on the
Wind_ / _Ithaqua_ / _Beyond the Threshold_ / _The Dweller in Darkness_.
THE OPENER OF THE WAY, by Robert Bloch. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xi., 309. $3.00. 2,065 copies printed. Contents:
_By Way of Introduction_ / _The Cloak_ / _Beetles_ / _The Fiddler’s
Fee_ / _The Mannikin_ / _The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton_ /
_Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper_ / _The Seal of the Satyr_ / _The Dark
Demon_ / _The Faceless God_ / _The House of the Hatchet_ / _The Opener
of the Way_ / _Return to the Sabbath_ / _The Mandarin’s Canaries_ /
_Waxworks_ / _The Feast in the Abbey_ / _Slave of the Flames_ / _The
Shambler from the Stars_ / _Mother of Serpents_ / _The Secret of
Sebek_ / _The Eyes of the Mummy_ / _One Way to Mars_.
WITCH HOUSE, by Evangeline Walton. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin,
1945. pp. 200. $2.50. 2,949 copies printed.
GREEN TEA AND OTHER GHOST STORIES, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. x., 357. $3.00. 2,026 copies
printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by August Derleth / _Schalken the
Painter_ / _Squire Toby’s Will_ / _Green Tea_ / _Wicked Captain
Walshawe, of Wauling_ / _Carmilla_ / _The Sexton’s Adventure_ / _Madam
Crowl’s Ghost_ / _Sir Dominick’s Bargain_ / _The Vision of Tom Chuff_
/ _Ultor De Lacy_ / _Dickon the Devil_ / _The House in Aungier Street_
/ _Mr. Justice Harbottle_ / _The Familiar_.
THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth.
Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 196. $2.50. 3,041 copies
printed.
THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap Long. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 316. $3.00. 2,602 copies printed. Contents:
_A Visitor from Egypt_ / _The Refugees_ / _Fisherman’s Luck_ /
_Death-Waters_ / _Grab Bags Are Dangerous_ / _The Elemental_ / _The
Peeper_ / _Bridgehead_ / _Second Night Out_ / _The Dark Beasts_ /
_Census Taker_ / _The Ocean Leech_ / _The Space-Eaters_ / _It Will
Come to You_ / _A Stitch in Time_ / _Step into My Garden_ / _The
Hounds of Tindalos_ / _Dark Vision_ / _The Flame Midget_ / _Golden
Child_ / _The Black Druid_.
THE DOLL AND ONE OTHER, by Algernon Blackwood. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 138. $1.50. 3,490 copies printed. Contents:
_The Doll_ / _The Trod_.
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS, by William Hope Hodgson.
Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xi., 639. $5.00. 3,014
copies printed. Contents: _William Hope Hodgson, Master of the Weird
and Fantastic_, by H. C. Koenig / _The Boats of the “Glen Carrig”_ /
_The House on the Borderland_ / _The Ghost Pirates_ / _The Night Land_
/ _Bibliography_, by A. Langley Searles.
SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS, by Robert E. Howard. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1946. pp. x., 475. $5.00. 3,004 copies printed. Contents:
_Foreword_, by August Derleth / _Which Will Scarcely Be Understood_
/ _Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam_, by H. P. Lovecraft / _A Memory
of R. E. Howard_, by E. Hoffmann Price / _Wolfshead_ / _The Black
Stone_ / _The Horror from the Mound_ / _The Cairn on the Headland_ /
_Black Canaan_ / _The Fire of Asshurbanipal_ / _A Man-Eating Jeopard_
/ _Skull-Face_ / _The Hyborian Age_ / _Worms of the Earth_ / _The
Valley of the Worm_ / _Skulls in the Stars_ / _Rattle of Bones_ /
_The Hills of the Dead_ / _Wings in the Night_ / _The Shadow Kingdom_
/ _The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune_ / _Kings of the Night_ / _The Phoenix
on the Sword_ / _The Scarlet Citadel_ / _The Tower of the Elephant_ /
_Rogues in the House_ / _Shadows in Zamboula_ / _Lines Written in the
Realization that I Must Die_.
WEST INDIA LIGHTS, by Henry S. Whitehead. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 367. $3.00. 3,037 copies printed. Contents:
_Black Terror_ / _West India Lights_ / “_Williamson_” / _The Shut
Room_ / _The Left Eye_ / _Tea Leaves_ / _The Trap_ / _The Napier
Limousine_ / _The Ravel_ Pavane / _Sea Change_ / _The_ _People
of Pan_ / _The Chadbourne Episode_ / _Scar Tissue_ / “--_In Case
of Disaster Only_” / _Bothon_ / _The Great Circle_ / _Obi in the
Caribbean_.
FEARFUL PLEASURES, by A. E. Coppard. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xiii., 301. $3.00. 4,033 copies printed.
Contents: _Foreword_ / _Adam and Eve and Pinch Me_ / _Clorinda Walks
in Heaven_ / _The Elixir of Youth_ / _Simple Simon_ / _Old Martin_ /
_The Bogie Man_ / _Polly Morgan_ / _The Gollan_ / _The Post Office and
the Serpent_ / _Crotty Shinkwin_ / _Ahoy, Sailor Boy!_ / _Gone Away_
/ _Rocky and the Bailiff_ / _Ale Celestial?_ /_The Fair Young Willowy
Tree_ / _Father Raven_ / _The Drum_ / _Cheese_ / _The Homeless One_ /
_The Kisstruck Bogie_ / _The Tiger_ / _The Gruesome Fit_.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE, by H. Russell Wakefield. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xi., 248. $3.00. 4,040 copies printed.
Contents: _Why I Write Ghost Stories_ / _Into Outer Darkness_ / _The
Alley_ / _Jay Walkers_ / _Ingredient X_ / “_I Recognized the Voice_” /
_Farewell Performance_ / _Not Quite Cricket_ / _In Collaboration_ / _A
Stitch in Time_ / _Lucky’s Grove_ / _Red Feathers_ / _Happy Ending?_ /
_The First Sheaf_ / _Masrur_ / _A Fishing Story_ / _Used Car_ / _Death
of a Poacher_ / _Knock! Knock! Who’s There?_
SLAN, by A. E. Van Vogt. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp.
216. $2.50. 4,051 copies printed.
THIS MORTAL COIL, by Cynthia Asquith. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 245. $3.00. 2,609 copies printed. Contents: _In
a Nutshell_ / _The White Moth_ / _The Corner Shop_ / “_God Grante That
She Lye Stille_” / _The Playfellow_ / _The Nurse Never Told_ / _The
Lovely Voice_ / _The First Night_ / _The Follower_.
DARK OF THE MOON: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre, edited by August
Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. xvi., 418.
$3.00. 2,634 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_, by August
Derleth / _The Twa Corbies_ / _A Lyke-Wake Direg_ / _William and
Marjorie_ / _The Wee Wee Man_ / _The Wife of Usher’s Well_ / _Fair
Eleanor_, by William Blake / _Address to the Deil_, _Tam o’ Shanter_,
_Death and Doctor Hornbook_, by Robert Burns / _Kilmeny_, by James
Hogg / _The Eve of St. John_, by Sir Walter Scott / _Kubla Khan_,
_Phantom_, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / _The Lake of the Dismal
Swamp_, by Thomas Moore / _The Hand of Glory_, by Richard Harris
Barham / _The Erl King_, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / _La Belle
Dame Sans Merci_, by John Keats / _The Haunted House_, _The Dream
of Eugene Aram_, _Pompey’s Ghost_, _The Ghost_, by Thomas Hood /
_The Phantom-Wooer_, _The Ghosts’ Moonshine_, by Thomas Lovell
Beddoes / _The Phantom Ship_, _The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi_, _The
Ghosts_, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / _The Raven_, _Dream-Land_,
_Ulalume_, by Edgar Allan Poe / _Rizpah_, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
/ _A Lowland Witch Ballad_, by William Bell Scott / _The Legend of
the Glaive_, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu / _The Weird Lady_, _The Sands
of Dee_, by Charles Kingsley / _Keith of Ravelston_, by Sydney
Thompson Dobell / _The Witch Bride_, _The Fairies_, by William
Allingham / _The Flying Dutchman_, by Charles Godfrey Leland / _The
Lost Steamship_, _The Three Gannets_, _The Demon of the Gibbet_, by
Fitz-James O’Brien / _Sister Helen_, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti /
_Goblin Market_, _The Ghost’s Petition_, by Christina Rossetti / _The
City of Dreadful Night_, by James Thomson / _The Wind_, by William
Morris / _The Highwayman’s Ghost_, by Richard Garnett / _The Ballad
of Judas Iscariot_, by Robert Buchanan / _The Song of the Ghost_,
by A. P. Graves / _A Glimpse of Pan_, _The Witch of Erkmurden_, by
James Whitcomb Riley / _A Windy Night_, _Roads_, _An April Ghost_,
_Bitters_, by Lizette Woodworth Reese / _The True Lover_, by A. E.
Housman / _Lazarus_, by José Asunción Silva / _All Souls’ Night_, _The
Fair Little Maiden_, _The Fetch_, _The Fairy Thorn-Tree_, by Dora
Sigerson Shorter / _Luke Havergal_, by Edwin Arlington Robinson / _The
Superstitious Ghost_, by Arthur Guiterman / _The Listeners_, _The
Little Green Orchard_, _The Ghost_, by Walter de la Mare / _A Dracula
of the Hills_, _The Paper in the Gate-Legged Table_, _Haunted_, by
Amy Lowell / _The Witch of Coös_, by Robert Frost / _The Little Dead
Child_, by Josephine Daskam Bacon / _Dave Lilly_, by Joyce Kilmer
/ _The Sorceress of the Moon_, by William Rose Benet / _221B_,
_Changeling_, _Visitation_, _Legend_, _Gooseflesh_, _Extraordinary
Visit_, _Sea Story_, by Vincent Starrett / _Lonesome Water_, _Old
Christmas_, by Roy Helton / _Psychopompos_, _Fungi from Yuggoth_
(_The Book_, _Pursuit_, _The Key_, _Recognition_, _Homecoming_,
_The Lamp_, _Zaman’s Hill_, _The Port_, _The_ _Courtyard_, _The
Pigeon-Flyers_, _The Well_, _The Howler_, _Hesperia_, _Star-Winds_,
_Antarktos_, _The Window_, _A Memory_, _The Gardens of Yin_, _The
Bells_, _Night-Gaunts_, _Nyarlathotep_, _Azathoth_, _Mirage_,
_The Canal_, _St. Toad’s_, _The Familiars_, _The Elder Pharos_,
_Expectancy_, _Nostalgia_, _Background_, _The Dweller_, _Alienation_,
_Harbour Whistles_, _Recapture_, _Evening Star_, _Continuity_),
_The Messenger_, _The Ancient Track_, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
/ _The Warning_, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin / _The Eldritch
Dark_, _Warning_, _The Hashish-Eater_, _Nightmare_, _Outlanders_,
_Nyctalops_, _Shadows_, _The Envoys_, _Fantaisie d’Antan_, _In
Thessaly_, _Resurrection_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Owls_, by
Timeus Gaylord / _The Orchard Ghost_, by Mark Van Doren / _Werewolf_,
by Arthur Inman / _Metropolitan Nightmare_, _Nightmare Number Three_,
by Stephen Vincent Benét / _The Goblin Tower_, _In Mayan Splendor_,
_Sonnet_, _A Knight of La Mancha_, _On Reading Arthur Machen_, _The
Abominable Snow Men_, _The Horror on Dagoth Wold_, by Frank Belknap
Long / _Just Then the Door_, by Merrill Moore / _Forgetful Hour_,
_The Specter’s Tale_, _The Haunted Stairs_, by Yetza Gillespie / _The
Snake_, _The Dreamer in the Desert_, by Francis Flagg / _Strange_,
_Forest God_, _Tree Woman_, _The Wolves of Egremont_, by Dorothy
Quick / _The Harp of Alfred_, _Futility_, _The Singer in the Mist_,
_Solomon Kane’s Homecoming_, _Moon Mockery_, _The King and the Oak_,
_Recompense_, _Always Comes Evening_, _The Ghost Kings_, _The Last
Hour_, _Which Will Scarcely Be Understood_, _Lines Written in the
Realization That I Must Die_, by Robert Ervin Howard / _Sonnets of
the Midnight Hours_ (_After Sleep_, _Purple_, _The Hungry Flowers_,
_The Eye_, _The Torturers_, _The Statues_, _The Old Companions_, _The
Head_, _In the Attic_, _The Cocoon_, _The Metal God_, _The Little
Creature_, _The Pool_, _The Prey_, _The Rack_, _Escape_, _Capture_,
_In the Pit_, _The Bell_, _The Ultimate Vision_), by Donald Wandrei
/ _Weldon House_, _Lois Malone_, _Ted Birkett_, _Bart Hinch_, _The
Shores of Night_, _Man at the Window_, _Stranger in the Night_, _Mark
of Man--Mark of Beast_, by August Derleth / _Sonnet of the Unsleeping
Dead_, by Anthony Boucher / _Fox Hunters of Hell_, by Byron Herbert
Reece / _Dreams of Yith_, by Duane W. Rimel / _Nostalgia_, _Echidna_,
by Mary Elizabeth Counselman / _Changeling_, _Wood Wife_, _In the
Shadows_, _The Path Through the Marsh_, _The Tenants_, _All-Saints’
Eve_, _The Ballad of the Jabberwock_, _Heard on the Roof at Midnight_,
by Leah Bodine Drake / _Wayfarers_, _Two Hunters_, by Harvey Wagner
Flink / _Star Gazer_, _Death at Sea_, _The Goats of Juan Fernandez_,
by Coleman Rosenberger.
DARK CARNIVAL, by Ray Bradbury. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin,
1947. pp. 313. $3.00. 3,112 copies printed. Contents: _The Homecoming_
/ _Skeleton_ / _The Jar_ / _The Lake_ / _The Maiden_ / _The Tombstone_
/ _The Smiling People_ / _The Emissary_ / _The Traveler_ / _The Small
Assassin_ / _The Crowd_ / _Reunion_ / _The Handler_ / _The Coffin_ /
_Interim_ / _Jack-in-the-Box_ / _The Scythe_ / _Let’s Play “Poison”_ /
_Uncle Einar_ / _The Wind_ / _The Night_ / _There Was an Old Woman_ /
_The Dead Man_ / _The Man Upstairs_ / _The Night Sets_ / _Cistern_ /
_The Next in Line_.
REVELATIONS IN BLACK, by Carl Jacobi. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 272. $3.00. 3,082 copies printed. Contents:
_Revelations in Black_ / _Phantom Brass_ / _The Cane_ / _The Coach on
the Ring_ / _The Kite_ / _Canal_ / _The Satanic Piano_ / _The Last
Drive_ / _The Spectral Pistol_ / _Sagasta’s Last_ / _The Tomb from
Beyond_ / _The Digging at Pistol Key_ / _Moss Island_ / _Carnaby’s
Fish_ / _The King and the Knave_ / _Cosmic Teletype_ / _A Pair of
Swords_ / _A Study in Darkness_ / _Mive_ / _Writing on the Wall_ /
_The Face in the Wind_.
NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. x., 237. $3.00. 3,084 copies printed.
Contents: _Foreword_ / _Smoke Ghost_ / _The Automatic Pistol_ /
_The Inheritance_ / _The Hill and the Hole_ / _The Dreams of Albert
Moreland_ / _The Hound_ / _Diary in the Snow_ / _The Man Who Never
Grew Young_ / _The Sunken Land_ / _Adept’s Gambit_.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number One: Winter, 1948. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies
printed. Contents: _Messrs. Turkes and Talbot_, by H. Russell
Wakefield / _History and Chronology of the Necromicon_, by H. P.
Lovecraft. Together with some pertinent paragraphs by August Derleth
/ _Lamia_, _The Nameless Wraith_, _The City of Destruction_, by Clark
Ashton Smith / _A Little Anthology_, edited by Malcolm Ferguson
/ _Mara_, by Stephen Grendon / _A Hornbook for Witches_, by Leah
Bodine Drake / _Checklist: The_ _Carvings of Clark Ashton Smith_ /
_The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_, Part I, by H. P. Lovecraft /
_Two Novels and an Anthology_, _From the Fan Presses_, _The Shasta
Checklist_, by August Derleth / _Through a Glass Darkly_, _A Thorne
off the Old Smith_, by Robert Bloch / _Three Anthologies_, by John
Haley / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number Two: Spring, 1948. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies
printed. Contents: _A Damsel with a Dulcimer_, by Malcolm Ferguson /
_Hellenic Sequel_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Group of Letters_, by
H. P. Lovecraft / _The Blindness of Orion_, by Clark Ashton Smith /
_West Country Legends_, collected by Robert Hunt / _The Wind in the
Lilacs_, by Stephen Grendon / _Unhappy Ending_, by Leah Bodine Drake
/ _Fantasy on the March_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _On the Cthulhu
Mythos_, by George T. Wetzel / _On “The Lurker at the Threshold”_, by
August Derleth / _From a Letter_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Memoir
of Lovecraft_, by Rheinhart Kleiner / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown
Kadath_, Part 2, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Ghosts in Great Britain_, _The
Macabre in Pictures_, by August Derleth / _Top-Notch Science Fiction_,
by John Haley / “_Deliver Us from Evil_”, by Robert Bloch / _Short
Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number Three: Summer, 1948. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies
printed. Contents: _A Kink in Space-Time_, by H. Russell Wakefield
/ _Night in the City_, by Geraldine Wolf / _The_ _Novels of M. P.
Shiel_, by A. Reynolds Morse / _No Stranger Dream_, _On the Mount
of Stone_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Loved Dead_, by C. M. Eddy,
Jr. / _Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Samuel Loveman / _A Letter to
E. Hoffmann Price_, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Old Wives’ Tale_, by Leah
Bodine Drake / _Strangers from Hesperus_, by Norman Markham / _Further
West Country Legends_, collected by Robert Hunt / _The Dream-Quest
of Unknown Kadath_, Part 3, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Dr. Keller’s
Stories_, by John Haley / _Wit and Satire_, _Studies in Murder_, by
August Derleth / _Gremlins_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Short Notices_ /
_Editorial Commentary_.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number Four: Autumn, 1948. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies
printed. Contents: _The Sign_, by Lord Dunsany / _Providence: Two
Gentlemen Meet at Midnight_, by August Derleth / _A Note on Aubrey
Beardsley_, by Malcolm Ferguson / _Only to One Returned_, by Clark
Ashton Smith / _A Spell Useful Near Water_, by Peter Viereck / _Nut
Bush Farm_, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell / _The Unknown Land_, by Leah
Bodine Drake / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_, Conclusion, by
H. P. Lovecraft / _Change of Heart_, by Robert Bloch / _Anterior
Life_, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Clark Ashton Smith / _The
Machen Collection_, _Books of Magical Lore_, by August Derleth /
_John Campbell’s Stories_, by John Haley / “_The World Is My Idea_,”
by Robert Bloch / _A Cosmic Novel_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _Short
Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.
THE TRAVELLING GRAVE AND OTHER STORIES, by L. P. Hartley. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 235. $3.00. 2,047 copies
printed. Contents: _A Visitor from Down Under_ / _Podolo_ / _Three, or
Four, for Dinner_ / _The Travelling Grave_ / _Feet Foremost_ / _The
Cotillon_ / _A Change of Ownership_ / _The Thought_ / _Conrad and the
Dragon_ / _The Island_ / _Night Fears_ / _The Killing Bottle_.
THE WEB OF EASTER ISLAND, by Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 191. $3.00. 3,068 copies printed.
THE FOURTH BOOK OF JORKENS, by Lord Dunsany. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 194. $3.00. 3,118 copies printed. Contents:
_Making Fine Weather_ / _Mgamu_ /_The Haunting of Halahanstown_ / _The
Pale-Green Image_ / _Jorkens Leaves Prison_ / _The Warning_ / _The
Sacred City of Krakovlitz_ / _Jorkens Practises Medicine and Magic_ /
_Jarton’s Disease_ / _On the Other Side of the Sun_ / _The Rebuff_ /
_Jorkens’ Ride_ / _The Secret of the Sphinx_ / _The Khamseen_ / _The
Expulsion_ / _The Welcome_ / _By Command of Pharaoh_ / _A Cricket
Problem_ / _A Life’s Work_ / _The Ingratiating Smile_ / _The Last
Bull_ / _The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber_ / _A Deal with the Devil_ /
_Strategy at the Billiards Club_ / _Jorkens in Witch Wood_ / _Lost_ /
_The English Magnifico_ / _The Cleverness of Dr. Caber_ / _Fairy Gold_
/ _A Royal Dinner_ / _A Fight with Knives_ / _Out West_ / _In a Dim
Room_.
ROADS, by Seabury Quinn. With Illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 110. $2.00. 2,137 copies
printed.
GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 228. $3.00. 3,047 copies printed. Contents:
_Genius Loci_ / _The Willow Landscape_ / _The Ninth Skeleton_ /
_The Phantoms of the Fire_ / _The Eternal World_ / _Vulthoom_ / _A
Star-Change_ / _The Primal City_ / _The Disinterment of Venus_ / _The
Colossus of Ylourgne_ / _The Satyr_ / _The Garden of Adompha_ / _The
Charnel God_ / _The Black Abbot of Puthuum_ / _The Weaver in the
Vault_.
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1948. pp. x., 221. $3.00. 2,067 copies printed. Contents:
_Foreword_ / _The Shadow on the Sky_ / _Birkett’s Twelfth Corpse_ /
_The White Moth_ / _Nellie Foster_ / _Wild Grapes_ / _Feigman’s Beard_
/ _The Drifting Snow_ / _The Return of Sarah Purcell_ / _Logoda’s
Heads_ / _The Second Print_ / _Mrs. Elting Does Her Part_ / _A Little
Knowledge_ / _Mrs. Bentley’s Daughter_ / _Those Who Seek_ / _Mr.
Berbeck Had a Dream_ / _The Tenant_ / _The Lilac Bush_ / “_Just a
Song at Twilight_” / _A Matter of Sight_ / _Prince Borgia’s Mass_ /
_A Dinner at Imola_ / _Lesandro’s Familiar_ / _The Bridge of Sighs_
/ _A Cloak from Messer Lando_ / _He Shall Come_ / _Mrs. Lannisfree_
/ _After You, Mr. Henderson_ / _Baynter’s Imp_ / _The Lost Day_ / _A
Collector of Stones_ / _The God-Box_ / _Saunder’s Little Friend_.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number One: Winter, 1949. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 100. $1.00. 2,000 copies
printed. Contents: _A Basic Science-Fiction Library_, by Forrest
J. Ackerman, Everett Bleiler, David H. Keller, Sam Merwin Jr., P.
Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, Lewis Padgett, Paul L. Payne, A.
Langley Searles, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. Van Vogt, Donald Wandrei /
_Avowal_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Spring Night_, by Ray Bradbury
/ _The Case for Science-Fiction_, by Sam Moskowitz / _Dear Pen Pal_,
by A. E. Van Vogt / _The Pool in the Wood_, by August Derleth /
_Solution of Mind Problems by the Imagination_, by Jules Verne / _The
Swallowers of Universes_, by Peter Viereck / _David Henry Keller and
the Scientific Novel in the United States_, by Regis Messac / _Time
to Rest_, by John Beynon Harris / _Open Sesame!_, by Stephen Grendon
/ _Travel Talk_, by Vincent Starrett / _The Moon as Goal_, by Everett
Bleiler / _Charles Williams’ Novel_, by Edward Wagenknecht / _From
the Fan Presses_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _Frank Merriwell on Venus_,
by Robert Bloch / _Factual Fantasies_, by Carl Jacobi / _Dr. Keller
Again_, by Weaver Wright / _Whimsy and Whamsy_, by Leah Bodine Drake /
_Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number Two: Spring, 1949. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies
printed. Contents: _The Root of Ampoi_, by Clark Ashton Smith /
_Fragment_, by Vincent Starrett / “_The Mummy!_”, by Everett Bleiler
/ _Sed Non Satiata_, a poem after Baudelaire, by Clark Ashton Smith
/ _A Feather from Lucifer’s Wing_, by Foreman Faulconer / _Lovecraft
and the Stars_, by E. Hoffman Price / _The Saints of Four-Mile Water_,
by Leah Bodine Drake / _Technical Slip_, by John Beynon Harris /
_The Last American_, by J. A. Mitchell / _Full Circle_, by Vincent
Starrett / _The Realm of Redonda_, by August Derleth / “_Gougou_”, by
P. Schuyler Miller / _Characterization in Imaginative Literature_,
by Jack C. Miske / _Jamesian Spectres_, by August Derleth / _Two
Bibliographies_, by Everett Bleiler / _The Devil and Miss Barker_, by
Leah Bodine Drake / _Christina_, by Joseph L. McNamara / _An Arkham
Quartet_, by Edward Wagenknecht / _Messrs. Sturgeon, Williamson &
DeCamp_, by August Derleth / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number Three: Summer, 1949.
Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies
printed. Contents: _The One Who Waits_, by Ray Bradbury / _In the Year
2889_, by Jules Verne / _Hieroglyphics_, _Two Horsemen_, by Vincent
Starrett / _Journey to the World Underground_, Part I, by Lewis
Holberg / _Oblivion_, by Jose-Maria de Heredia, translated by Clark
Ashton Smith / _Two Poems After Baudelaire_ (_The Giantess_, _Lethe_),
by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Door_, by David H. Keller / _The Derleth
Science-Fiction Collection_, by Everett F. Bleiler / _Ode to a
Skylark_, by Robert Bloch / _More Caldecott_, by Edward Wagenknecht
/ _Poetry of Immortality_, by John Haley / “_American Dreams_” _and
Utopias_, by Everett F. Bleiler / _Salem Again_, by Robert Bloch / _A
Mixed Bag_, by August Derleth / _Editorial Commentary_.
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1949, Volume II, Number Four: Autumn, 1949. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 128. $1.00. 1,200 copies
printed. Contents: _The Triumph of Death_, by H. Russell Wakefield
/ _Calenture_, _Pour Chercher Du Nouveau_, by Clark Ashton Smith
/ _Footnote to Dunne_, by Anthony Boucher / _Journey to the World
Underground_, Part II, by Lewis Holberg / _The Death of Lovers_, by
Charles Baudelaire, translated by Clark Ashton Smith / _Escape_, by
Thomas H. Carter / _Sidney Sime of Worplesdon_, by Martin Gardner
/ _Nightmare_, by Erasmus Darwin / _The Song of the Pewee_, by
Stephen Grendon / _A Little Anthology_, edited by Malcolm Ferguson /
_Abracadabra_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _The Rape of Things to Come_, by
Robert Bloch / _Perhaps the Future_, by John Haley / _Nelson Bond’s
New Stories_, _A Selected Shelf of Fantasy_, by August Derleth /
_Anthropology and Fiction_, by Everett F. Bleiler / _A Contrasting
Duo_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _Two Views of the Future_, by Frank
Belknap Long / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_ / _Index_.
SOMETHING ABOUT CATS AND OTHER PIECES, by H. P. Lovecraft. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. Illustrated, pp. ix., 306. $3.00.
2,995 copies printed. Contents: _A Prefatory Note_, by August Derleth
/ _Something About Cats_ / _The Invisible Monster_, _Four O’Clock_,
by Sonia H. Greene / _The_ _Horror in the Burying Ground_, by Hazel
Heald / _The Last Test_, _The Electric Executioner_, by Adolphe de
Castro / _Satan’s Servants_, by Robert Bloch / _The Despised Pastoral_
/ _Time and Space_ / _Merlinus Redivivus_ / _At the Root_ / _The
Materialist Today_ / _Vermont: A First Impression_ / _The Battle
That Ended the Century_ / _Notes for “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”_ /
_Discarded Draught of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”_/ _Notes for “At
the Mountains of Madness”_ / _Notes for “The Shadow Out of Time”_ /
_Phaeton_ / _August_ / _Death_ / _To the American Flag_ / _To a Youth_
/ _My Favorite Character_ / _To Templeton and Mount Monadnock_ / _The
House_ / _The City_ / _The Poe-et’s Nightmare_ / _Sir Thomas Tryout_
/ _Lament for the Vanished Spider_ / _Regnar Lodburg’s Epicedium_
/ _A Memoir of Lovecraft_, by Rheinhart Kleiner / _Howard Phillips
Lovecraft_, by Samuel Loveman / _Lovecraft as I Knew Him_, by Sonia
H. Davis / _Lovecraft’s Sensitivity_, _Lovecraft’s “Conservative”_,
by August Derleth / _The Man Who Was Lovecraft_, by E. Hoffman Price
/ _A Literary Copernicus_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _Providence: Two
Gentlemen Meet at Midnight_, by August Derleth / _H. P. L._, by
Vincent Starrett.
THE THRONE OF SATURN, by S. Fowler Wright. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 186. $3.00. 3,062 copies printed. Contents:
_Justice_ / _This Night_ / _Brain_ / _Appeal_ / _Proof_ / _P. N. 40_
/ _Automata_ / _The Rat_ / _Rule_ / _Choice_ / _The Temperature of
Gehenna Sue_ / _Original Sin_.
A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES, poems by Leah Bodine Drake. Arkham House,
Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1950. pp. 70. $2.10. 553 copies printed.
Contents: _A Hornbook for Witches_ / _Unhappy Ending_ / _Witches on
the Heath_ / _The Tenants_ / _The Ballad of the Jabberwock_ / _Bad
Company_ / _Mouse Heaven_ / _Rabbit-Dance_ / _Wood-Wife_ / _A Likely
Story!_ / _The Man Who Married a Swan-Maiden_ / _All-Saints’ Eve_
/ _The Last Faun_ / _Changeling_ / _In the Shadows_ / _Figures in
a Nightmare_ / _The Witch Walks in Her Garden_ / _The Seal-Woman’s
Daughter_ / _They Run Again_ / _The Path Through the Marsh_ / _Old
Wives’ Tale_ / _A Vase from Araby_ / _The Fur Coat_ / _House Accurst_
/ _The Vision_ / _Sea-Shell_ / _Willow-Women_ / _The Girl in the
Glass_ / _Heard on the Roof at Midnight_ / _Terror by Night_ /
_Legend_ / _The Heads on Easter Island_ / _Haunted Hour_ / _Goat-Song_
/ _The Nixie’s Pool_ / _The Stranger_ / _Encounter in Broceliande_ /
_The Window on the Stair_ / _The Old World of Green_ / _Curious Story_
/ _The Steps in the Field_ / _Midsummer Night_ / _Old Daphne_ / _Mad
Woman’s Song_ / _Griffon’s Gold_ / _Black Peacock_ / _The Centaurs_.
THE DARK CHATEAU, poems by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1951. pp. 63. $2.50. 563 copies printed. Contents:
_Amithaine_ / _Seeker_ / _The Dark Chateau_ / _Lamia_ / _Pour Chercher
du Nouveau_ / “_O Golden-Tongued Romance_” / _Averoigne_ / _Zothique_
/ _The Stylite_ / _Dominium in Excelsis_ / _Moly_ / _Two Myths and
a Fable_ / _Eros of Ebony_ / _Shapes in the Sunset_ / _Not Theirs
the Cypress-Arch_ / _Don Quixote on Market Street_ / _Malediction_
/ _Hellenic Sequel_ / _The Cypress_ / _The Old Water-Wheel_ /
_Calenture_ / _Soliloquy in an Ebon Tower_ / _Sinbad, It Was Not Well
to Brag_ / _Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts_ / _Surréaliste Sonnet_ /
_The Twilight of the Gods_ / _The Poet Talks with the Biographers_ /
_Desert Dweller_ / _Hesperian Fall_ / “_Not Altogether Sleep_” / _Some
Blind Eidolon_ / _The Isle of Saturn_ / _Oblivion_ / _Revenant_ / _In
Slumber_ / _Cambion_ / _The Witch with Eyes of Amber_ / _The Outer
Land_ / _Luna Aeternalis_ / _Ye Shall Return_.
TALES FROM UNDERWOOD, by David H. Keller. Published for Arkham House,
by Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York, 1952. pp. vii., 322. $3.95. 3,500
copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_ / _The Worm_ / _The Revolt of
the Pedestrians_ / _The Yeast Men_ / _The Ivy War_ / _The Doorbell_
/ _The Flying Fool_ / _The Psychophonic Nurse_ / _A Biological
Experiment_ / _Free as the Air_ / _The Bridle_ / _Tiger Cat_ / _The
God Wheel_ / _The Golden Bough_ / _The Jelly Fish_ / _The Opium
Eater_ / _The Thing in the Cellar_ / _The Moon Artist_ / _Creation
Unforgivable_ / _The Dead Woman_ / _The Door_ / _The Perfumed Garden_
/ _The Literary Corkscrew_ / _A Piece of Linoleum_.
NIGHT’S YAWNING PEAL: A Ghostly Company, edited by August Derleth.
Arkham House: Publishers, with Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York, 1952.
pp. viii., 280. $3.00. 4,500 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_ /
_Mr. George_, by Stephen Grendon / _The Loved Dead_, by C. M. Eddy,
Jr. / _The Sign_, by Lord Dunsany / _The La Prello Paper_, by Carl
Jacobi / _The Gorge of the_ _Churels_, by H. Russell Wakefield /
_Dhoh_, by Manly Wade Wellman / _The Churchyard Yew_, by J. Sheridan
Le Fanu / _Technical Slip_, by John Beynon Harris / _The Man Who
Collected Poe_, by Robert Bloch / _Hector_, by Michael West / _Roman
Remains_, by Algernon Blackwood / _A Damsel with a Dulcimer_, by
Malcolm Ferguson / _The Suppressed Edition_, by Richard Curle / _The
Lonesome Place_, by August Derleth / _The Case of Charles Dexter
Ward_, by H. P. Lovecraft.
THE CURSE OF YIG, by Zealia B. Bishop. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1953. pp. 175. $3.00. 1,217 copies printed. Contents: _The
Curse of Yig_ / _Medusa’s Coil_ / _The Mound_ / _H. P. Lovecraft: A
Pupil’s View_ / _A Wisconsin Balzac: A Profile of August Derleth_.
THE FEASTING DEAD, by John Metcalfe. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1954. pp. 123. $2.50. 1,242 copies printed.
THE SURVIVOR AND OTHERS, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1957. pp. 161. $3.00. 2,096 copies
printed. Contents: _The Survivor_ / _Wentworth’s Day_ / _The Peabody
Heritage_ / _The Gable Window_ / _The Ancestor_ / _The Shadow out of
Space_ / _The Lamp of Alhazred_.
ALWAYS COMES EVENING, collected poems of Robert E. Howard. Compiled by
Glenn Lord. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1957. pp. x., 86. 636
copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by Glenn Lord / _Introduction_,
by Dale Hart / _Always Comes Evening_ / _The Poets_ / _The Singer in
the Mist_ / _Solomon Kane’s Homecoming_ / _Futility_ / _The Song of
the Bats_ / _The Moor Ghost_ / _Recompense_ / _The Hills of Kandahar_
/ _Which Will Scarcely Be Understood_ / _Haunting Columns_ / _The Last
Hour_ / _Ships_ / _The King and the Oak_ / _The Riders of Babylon_
/ _Easter Island_ / _Moon Mockery_ / _Shadows on the Road_ / _The
Soul-Eater_ / _The Dream and the Shadow_ / _The Ghost Kings_ / _Desert
Dawn_ / _An Open Window_ / _The Song of a Mad Minstrel_ / _The Gates
of Nineveh_ / _Fragment_ / _The Harp of Alfred_ / _Remembrance_ /
_Crete_ / _Forbidden Magic_ / _Black Chant Imperial_ / _A Song out of
Midian_ / _Arkham_ / _Voices of the Night_ / _Song at Midnight_ / _The
Ride of Falume_ / _Autumn_ / _Dead Man’s Hate_ / _One Who Comes at
Eventide_ / _To a Woman_ / _Emancipation_ / _Retribution_ / _Chant of
the White Beard_ / _Rune_ / _The Road of Azrael_ / _Song of the Pict_
/ _Prince and Beggar_ / _Hymn of Hatred_ / _Invective_ / _Men of the
Shadows_ / _Babylon_ / _Niflheim_ / _The Heart of the Sea’s Desire_
/ _Laughter in the Gulfs_ / _A Song of the Don Cossacks_ / _The Gods
of Easter Island_ / _Nisapur_ / _Moon Shame_ / _The Tempter_ / _Lines
Written in the Realization That I Must Die_ / _Chapter Headings_.
SPELLS AND PHILTRES, poems by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. 54. $3.00. 519 copies printed. Contents:
_Dedication_ / _Didus Ineptus_ / _Thebaid_ / _Secret Love_ / _The_
_Pagan_ / _Tired Gardener_ / _Nada_ / _High Surf_ / _The Centaur_ /
_Said the Dreamer_ / _The Nameless Wraith_ / _The Blindness of Orion_
/ _Jungle Twilight_ / _The Phoenix_ / _The Prophet Speaks_ / _Farewell
to Eros_ / _Alternative_ / _Only to One Returned_ / _Anteros_ / _No
Stranger Dream_ / _Do You Forget, Enchantress?_ / _Necromancy_ /
_Dialogue_ / _October_ / _Dominion_ / _Tolometh_ / _Disillusionment_
/ _Almost Anything_ / _Parnassus a la Mode_ / _Fence and Wall_
/ _Growth of Lichen_ / _Cats in Winter Sunlight_ / _Abandoned
Plum-Orchard_ / _Harvest Evening_ / _Willow-Cutting in Autumn_ /
_Late Pear-Pruner_ / _Geese in the Spring Night_ / _The Sparrow’s
Nest_ / _The Last Apricot_ / _Unicorn_ / _Untold Arabian Fable_ /
_A Hunter Meets the Martichoras_ / _The Sciapod_ / _The Monacle_ /
_Feast of St. Anthony_ / _Paphnutius_ / _Philter_ / _Perseus and
Medusa_ / _Essence_ / _Passing of an Elder God_ / _Nightmare of the
Lilliputian_ / _Mithridates_ / _Quiddity_ / _“That Motley Drama”_
(from Clérigo Herrero) / _Rimas XXXIII_ (from Gustavo Adolfo Bequer) /
_Ecclesiastes_ (from Leconte de Lisle) / _Anterior Life_ (from Charles
Baudelaire) / _Song of Autumn_ (from Charles Baudelaire) / _Lethe_
(from Charles Baudelaire) / _The Metamorphoses of the Vampire_ (from
Charles Baudelaire) / _Epigrams and Apothegms_.
THE MASK OF CTHULHU, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1958. pp. 201. $3.50. 2,051 copies printed. Contents:
_Introduction_ / _The Return of Hastur_ / _The Whippoorwills in the
Hills_ / _Something in Wood_ / _The Sandwin Compact_ / _The House in
the Valley_ / _The Seal of R’lyeh_.
NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM, by Joseph Payne Brennan. Arkham House, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. 120. $3.00. 1,336 copies printed. Contents:
_Slime_ / _Levitation_ / _The Calamander Chest_ / _Death in Peru_ /
_On the Elevator_ / _The Green Parrot_ / _Canavan’s Back Yard_ / _I’m
Murdering Mr. Massington_ / _The Hunt_ / _The Mail for Juniper Hill_.
ARKHAM HOUSE: THE FIRST 20 YEARS, prepared by August Derleth. Arkham
House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1959. pp. 54. A Chapbook. $1.00. 775
copies ordered.
SOME NOTES ON H. P. LOVECRAFT, by August Derleth. Arkham House,
Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1959. pp. 42. A Chapbook. $1.00. 1,000 copies
ordered. Contents: _The Myths_ / _The Unfinished Manuscripts_ / _The
Writing Habits_ / _The Barlow Journal_ / _H. P. Lovecraft: Four
Letters_.
THE SHUTTERED ROOM AND OTHER PIECES, by H. P. Lovecraft & Divers
Hands. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1959. Illustrated. $5.00.
3,000 copies ordered. Contents: _The Shuttered Room_, by H. P.
Lovecraft and August Derleth / _The Fisherman of Falcon Point_, by H.
P. Lovecraft and August Derleth / Juvenilia, by H. P. Lovecraft--_The
Alchemist_, _The Street_ / _Old Bugs_, by H. P. Lovecraft / _The
Commonplace Book_, by H. P. Lovecraft, annotated by August Derleth
/ _Lovecraft’s First Book_, by William L. Crawford / _Memories of
a Friendship_, by Alfred Galpin / _Out of the Ivory Tower_, by
Robert Bloch / _H. P. Lovecraft: The Books_, by Lin Carter / _H. P.
Lovecraft: The_ _Gods_, by Lin Carter / _Homage to H. P. Lovecraft_,
by Felix Stefanile / _Three Hours with H. P. Lovecraft_, by Dorothy
C. Walker / _Lines to H. P. Lovecraft_, by Joseph Payne Brennan /
_Revenants_, by August Derleth / _Lovecraft in Providence_, by Donald
Wandrei / _Lovecraft as Mentor_, by August Derleth / _Bibliography of
the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft_, by George T. Wetzel / _The Shadow
Over Innsmouth_, by H. P. Lovecraft, with the original illustrations
by Frank Utpatel / _The Strange High House in the Mist_, by H. P.
Lovecraft / together with other reprints and photographs.
Associated Imprints
“IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES”--The Adventures of Solar Pons, by August
Derleth. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xv., 238.
$2.50. 3,604 copies printed. Contents: _In Re: Solar Pons_, by Vincent
Starrett / _A Word from Dr. Lyndon Parker_ / _The Adventure of the
Frightened Baronet_ / _The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham_ / _The
Adventure of the Black Narcissus_ / _The Adventure of the Norcross
Riddle_ / _The Adventure of the Retired Novelist_ / _The Adventure of
the Three Red Dwarfs_ / _The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman_ / _The
Adventure of the Purloined Periapt_ / _The Adventure of the Limping
Man_ / _The Adventure of the Seven Passengers_ / _The Adventure of the
Lost Holiday_ / _The Adventure of the Man with the Broken Face_.
CARNACKI, THE GHOST-FINDER, by William Hope Hodgson. Mycroft & Moran,
Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 241. $3.00. 3,050 copies printed.
Contents: _The Thing Invisible_ / _The Gateway of the Monster_ / _The
House Among the Laurels_ / _The Whistling Room_ / _The Searcher of the
End House_ / _The Horse of the Invisible_ / _The Haunted “Jarvee”_ /
_The Find_ / _The Hog_.
THE MEMOIRS OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1951. pp. xxii., 245. $3.00. 2,038 copies printed.
Contents: _Introduction_, by Ellery Queen / _The Adventure of the
Circular Room_ / _The Adventure of the Perfect Husband_ / _The
Adventure of the Broken Chessman_ / _The Adventure of the Dog in
the Manger_ / _The Adventure of the Proper Comma_ / _The Adventure
of Ricoletti of the Club Foot_ / _The Adventure of the Six Silver
Spiders_ / _The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive_ / _The Adventure of
the Tottenham Werewolf_ / _The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen_ /
_The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant_.
THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth. Mycroft & Moran,
Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1952. pp. vii., 112. $2.50. 996 copies printed.
Contents: _A Note for the Aficionado_ / _The Adventure of the Rydberg
Numbers_ / _The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm_ / _The Adventure of
the Camberwell Beauty_.
THE RETURN OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. xiii., 261. $4.00. 2,079 copies printed.
Contents: _Introduction_, by Edgar W. Smith / _The Adventure of the
Lost Dutchman_ / _The Adventure of the Devil’s_ _Footprints_ /
_The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance_ / _The Adventure of
the “Triple Kent”_ / _The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers_ / _The
Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse_ / _The Adventure of the Stone
of Scone_ / _The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm_ / _The Adventure of
the Penny Magenta_ / _The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant_ / _The
Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty_ / _The Adventure of the Little
Hangman_ / _The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures_.
BILL’S DIARY, by Dwig (Clare Victor Dwiggins). Stanton & Lee, Sauk
City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xx., 288. $2.00. 2,002 copies printed.
Contents: _Dwig--and Bill_, _Eternal Boy_, by August Derleth / _Bill’s
Diary_ (cartoons) / _Night-Haunt_, _Spring Rain_, _Woods Music_, _Leaf
Burning Time_, _Snow_, by August Derleth.
EVENING IN SPRING, by August Derleth. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1945. pp. x., 308. $1.49. 2,990 copies printed. A reprint
of the Charles Scribner’s Sons edition of 1941, with a new _Foreword_.
OLIVER, THE WAYWARD OWL, by August Derleth. Illustrations by Dwig.
Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 84. $1.50. 3,089 copies
printed.
A BOY’S WAY, poems by August Derleth. Pictures by Dwig. Stanton & Lee,
Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 109. $2.00. 1,990 copies printed. _The
Ambush_ / _Houseboat_ / _Screech Owls_ / _Fox and Hounds_ / _Down to
the Sea in Ships_ / _Rowing at Night_ / _Jew’s Harp Music_ / _My Dog
Spot_ / _Bullheading_ / _Smokewood_ / _Book Review_ / _Spring_ /
_First Kiss_ / _Whistling in the Dark_ / _Spring Fever_ / _Sunfishing_
/ _Haunted House_ / _The Collectors_ / _Timber!_ / _Doughnuts_
/ _Woods at Night_ / _The Old Frog Pond_ / _The Stereopticon in
Grandma’s Parlor_ / _Nighthawk_ / _The Recital_ / _The Lamp_ / _Night
Mail_ / _Firebell in the Night_ / _Turtling_ / _The Piano Lesson_ /
_Fish Rising_ / _Rain on the Attic Roof_ / _The Day after the Circus_
/ _Moonrise_ / _Clouds_ / _Night Train_ / _The Scissors-Grinder_ /
_Dwellers in the Dark_ / _Box-Social_ / _Treasure_ / _Playing at Dusk_
/ _New Moon_ / _Horsehair Chair_ / _Damming the Brook_ / _Hallowe’en_
/ _Leaf-Burning_ / _O Ye of Little Faith!_ / _Nutting_ / _Ice Skating_
/ _Sherlock Holmes_ / _Hawk_.
WISCONSIN EARTH, A Sac Prairie Sampler, by August Derleth. Stanton &
Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 335, 250, 314. $5.00. Endpaper
map by Hjalmar Skuldt. Wood-engravings by George Barford, Frank
Utpatel. Reprinted from the original editions by Charles Scribner’s
Sons, Loring & Mussey, Coward-McCann, Inc. 1,186 copies printed.
Contents: _Shadow of Night_ / _Place of Hawks_ (_Five Alone_, _Farway
House_, _Nine Strands in a Web_, _Place of Hawks_) / _Village Year: A
Sac Prairie Journal_.
SAC PRAIRIE PEOPLE, by August Derleth. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City,
Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 322. $3.00. 2,131 copies printed. Contents:
_Kleine Nachtmusik_ / _Expedition to the North_ / _Ellie Butts_ / _A
Little Quiet in the Evening_ / _McCrary’s Wife_ / _The Sisters_ /
_Moonlight in the Apple Tree_ / _Valse Oubliée_ / _Where the_ _Worm
Dieth Not_ / _Now Is the Time for All Good Men_ / _Nella_ / _The Night
Light at Vorden’s_ / _Aunt May and the Refugees_ / _Stuff of Dream_ /
_Rendezvous_ / _The Lost Kiss_ / _“That Feller Oates”_ / _One Against
the Dead_ / _Light Again_ / _I Was Walking Helen Home_.
IT’S A BOY’S WORLD, poems by August Derleth. Pictures by Dwig.
Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 107. $2.00. 1,244
copies printed. Contents: _First Crocus_ / _The Bobbing Cork_ /
_Streetlight Shadows_ / _The Locomotive Engineer_ / _The Customer_ /
_The Raft_ / _The Millpond Terror_ / _School Play_ / _Roller-Skating_
/ _Tadpoles_ / _The Bat_ / _The Old Swimming Hole_ / _Haying_ / _My
Owl_ / _Peewee’s Ride_ / _The Cabin in the Woods_ / _The Old Covered
Bridge_ / _The Baseball Game_ / _The Belfry_ / _The Unexplored Island_
/ _The Soap-Coupon Telescope_ / _The Waterfall_ / _Glowworms_ /
_Heaven’s Gate_ / _Old Speck_ / _Potato Bugs and Weeds_ / _The Hanging
Tree_ / _Dogs Barking_ / _The Long Trail_ / _The Cellar Dweller_ /
_Otter_ / _The Wind in the Leaves_ / _Acorns on the Roof_ / _The
Sparrow in the Willows_ / _Cornshocks_ / _Elderberry Syrup_ / _Pumpkin
Faces_ / _Deer_ / _Torch Signals_ / _Leaf-Painter_ / _Bonfire in the
Woods_ / _Witch Hazel on Hallowe’en_ / _The Dance_ / _Snowstorm_
/ _Bob-Sledding_ / _The Long Ride_ / _The Harness Shop_ / _Drying
Hickory Nuts_ / _The Mystery Picture at the Old Electric_ / _The
Caboose on the Train_.
BRIGHT JOURNEY, by August Derleth. A reprint of the Charles Scribner’s
Sons edition of 1940. pp. 424 $3.50. Title page unchanged. 1,021
copies printed, 1953. 1,567 copies reprinted 1955.
WIND OVER WISCONSIN, by August Derleth. A reprint of the Charles
Scribner’s Sons edition of 1938. pp. 391. $3.50. Title page unchanged.
1,032 copies printed, 1957.
WILBUR, THE TRUSTING WHIPPOORWILL, by August Derleth. Illustrations by
Dwig. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin. 990 copies printed, 1959.
pp. 64. $2.00.
Addenda
In the course of its first two decades, Arkham House has stocked and
sold certain non-Arkham House books in the genre of the macabre.
Collectors are sometimes confused by such titles offered for sale by
Arkham House. The following books, offered for sale by Arkham House,
were not published under the House imprint:
DARK ODYSSEY, poems by Donald Wandrei.
SLEEP NO MORE, edited by August Derleth.
WHO KNOCKS?, edited by August Derleth.
BEST SUPERNATURAL STORIES OF H. P. LOVECRAFT, edited by August Derleth.
THE NIGHT SIDE, edited by August Derleth.
THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD, edited by August Derleth.
STRANGE PORTS OF CALL, edited by August Derleth.
H. P. L.: A MEMOIR, by August Derleth.
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE, by H. P. Lovecraft.
WORLDS OF TOMORROW, edited by August Derleth.
BEYOND TIME AND SPACE, edited by August Derleth.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON, edited by August Derleth.
FAR BOUNDARIES, edited by August Derleth.
As of July 1, 1959, these Arkham House titles are out of print or
removed from catalogue listing:
THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS, by H. P. Lovecraft
SOMEONE IN THE DARK, by August Derleth
OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, by Clark Ashton Smith
BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP, BY H. P. Lovecraft
THE EYE AND THE FINGER, by Donald Wandrei
JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES, by Henry S. Whitehead
LOST WORLDS, by Clark Ashton Smith
MARGINALIA, by H. P. Lovecraft
SLAN, by A. E. Van Vogt
THE OPENER OF THE WAY, by Robert Bloch
SOMETHING NEAR, by August Derleth
GREEN TEA AND OTHER STORIES, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
DARK CARNIVAL, by Ray Bradbury
A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES, by Leah Bodine Drake
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER: 1948
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER: 1949
THE DARK CHATEAU, by Clark Ashton Smith
THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap Long
THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth
Transcriber's Notes:
Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.
Perceived typographical errors have been changed.
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