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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. + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76245 *** diff --git a/76245-h/76245-h.htm b/76245-h/76245-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0f6286 --- /dev/null +++ b/76245-h/76245-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1855 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <title> + Arkham House: The First 20 Years 1939-1959 | Project Gutenberg + </title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> + <style> + +body { + margin-left: 15%; + margin-right: 15%; +} + +h1 {font-weight: normal; + font-size: 250%; + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 1em; + clear: both; + } + + +p { + margin-top: .51em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .49em; +} + +.p6 {margin-top: 6em;} + +hr { + width: 33%; + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 2em; + margin-left: 33.5%; + margin-right: 33.5%; + clear: both; +} + +hr.full {width: 95%; margin-left: 2.5%; margin-right: 2.5%;} + +div.chapter {page-break-before: always;} + +.pagenum { /* uncomment the next line for invisible page numbers */ + /* visibility: hidden; */ + position: absolute; + left: 92%; + font-size: small; + text-align: right; + font-style: normal; + font-weight: normal; + font-variant: normal; + text-indent: 0; +} /* page numbers */ + + +.blockquot { + margin-left: 5%; + margin-right: 10%; +} + +.up {font-size: 160%;} +.xlarge {font-size: 140%;} +.large {font-size: 120%;} + +.c {text-align: center;} + +.sp {word-spacing: 0.3em;} + +.pad {padding-left: 10em;} + +.pad2 {padding-left: 8em;} + +.sans {font-family: sans-serif;} + +.ph2 {text-align: center; text-indent: 0em; + font-size: 180%; + margin-top: 1em; + word-spacing: 0.3em;} + +.smcap {font-variant: small-caps;} + +/* Images */ + +img { + max-width: 100%; + height: auto; +} +img.w100 {width: 100%;} + + +.figcenter { + margin: auto; + text-align: center; + page-break-inside: avoid; + max-width: 100%; +} + + +/* Transcriber's notes */ +.transnote {background-color: #E6E6FA; + color: black; + font-size:small; + padding:0.5em; + margin-bottom:5em; + margin-top:3em; + font-family:sans-serif, serif; + border: .3em double gray; + padding: 1em; +} + + </style> +</head> +<body> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76245 ***</div> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="cover"> +</div> + + +<h1> +ARKHAM HOUSE:<br> +THE FIRST 20 YEARS<br> +1939-1959</h1> + +<p class="pad up sp">A History<br> +and Bibliography</p> + +<p class="pad up sp">prepared<br> +by August Derleth</p> + + +<p class="p6 sp large sans">ARKHAM HOUSE: Publishers</p> + +<p class="sp xlarge sans"> +Sauk City, Wisconsin <span class="pad2">1959</span> +</p> +<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</span></p> + +<p><span class="smcap large">Though</span> 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 <i>Journal</i>. 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.</p> +</div> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>It was at this point that the idea of publishing the +omnibus under an imprint of our own occurred to me<span class="pagenum" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</span> +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.</p> + +<p>There was never any question about the name of our +publishing house. <i>Arkham House</i> 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.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</span></p> + +<p>But by this time two years had elapsed since Lovecraft’s +death, and by the time initial announcements of +the work appeared in <i>Weird Tales</i>, offering prepaid +advance-ordered copies of <i>The Outsider and Others</i>—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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Publishers’ +Weekly</i> and other trade media, though it was so +thoroughly ignored locally that even today, after two<span class="pagenum" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</span> +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.</p> + +<p><i>The Outsider and Others</i> 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, +<i>Someone in the Dark</i>, 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.</p> + +<p>After much soul-searching, I took Weber’s advice, and +brought out <i>Someone in the Dark</i> 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 <i>The Outsider +and Others</i>, I began to explore the possibility of +publishing further books in the field. Despite the fact<span class="pagenum" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</span> +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 <i>Out of Space +and Time</i>, at $3.00 the copy.</p> + +<p>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 <i>The Outsider and Others</i> +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, <i>Beyond the Wall of Sleep</i>, +was published in an edition limited by wartime restrictions +to but 1,217 copies.</p> + +<p>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. <i>The Outsider +and Others</i> 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</span> +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.</p> + +<p>Pushing ahead, I commissioned Frank Utpatel, the +Wisconsin artist who had done the illustrations for Lovecraft’s +<i>The Shadow Over Innsmouth</i> in 1936, to design +a house colophon. This made its first appearance in our +next book, Donald Wandrei’s <i>The Eye and the Finger</i>. +In addition to this title, three other Arkham House titles +appeared in 1944; they were Henry S. Whitehead’s +<i>Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales</i>; Clark Ashton Smith’s +<i>Lost Worlds</i>, and <i>Marginalia</i>, 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 <i>The Opener of the +Way</i>; the first Arkham House fantasy novel, Evangeline +Walton’s <i>Witch House</i>; J. Sheridan LeFanu’s <i>Green Tea +and Other Ghost Stories</i>; and <i>The Lurker at the Threshold</i>, +a novel suggested in notes and fragments written +by Lovecraft, finished by myself.</p> + +<p>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 <i>“In Re: Sherlock Holmes”—The +Adventures of Solar Pons</i>, a collection of pastiches of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_viii">[Pg viii]</span> +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 <i>The Memoirs of Solar Pons</i>; 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 <i>Bill’s Diary</i>, +the Derleth-Dwig juvenile for pixilated adults, <i>Oliver</i>, +<i>the Wayward Owl</i>, and a new printing of my Scribner +novel, <i>Evening in Spring</i>, 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 <i>Evening in Spring</i>—and +by Ronald Clyne.</p> + +<p>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,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_ix">[Pg ix]</span> +<i>The Doll and One Other</i>; A. E. Coppard’s <i>Fearful Pleasures</i>; +H. Russell Wakefield’s <i>The Clock Strikes Twelve</i>, +and an omnibus reprint of four novels—William Hope +Hodgson’s <i>The House on the Borderland and Other +Novels</i>; as well as three books by members of the Lovecraft +circle of writers who, like him, contributed primarily +to <i>Weird Tales</i> in earlier years—Frank Belknap +Long’s <i>The Hounds of Tindalos</i>; Robert E. Howard’s +<i>Skull-Face and Others</i>; and Henry S. Whitehead’s <i>West +India Lights</i>, together with the first Arkham House science-fiction +novel, the popular <i>Astounding Science-Fiction</i> +serial, <i>Slan</i>, by A. E. Van Vogt.</p> + +<p>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,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_x">[Pg x]</span> +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.</p> + +<p>Nevertheless, despite increased costs of publication, +Arkham House in 1947 released Lady Cynthia Asquith’s +<i>This Mortal Coil</i>; Ray Bradbury’s first distinguished +collection, <i>Dark Carnival</i> (later revised and issued under +the Ballantine imprint as <i>The October Country</i>); Carl +Jacobi’s <i>Revelations in Black</i>; my own anthology of +fantastic and macabre poetry, <i>Dark of the Moon</i>; Fritz +Leiber Jr.’s <i>Night’s Black Agents</i>; and, under the Mycroft +& Moran imprint, William Hope Hodgson’s +<i>Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder</i>, 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.</p> + +<p>In 1948, in addition to the publication of five titles, +Arkham House brought out its only illustrated book, +Seabury Quinn’s <i>Roads</i>, with pictures by Virgil Finlay, +and inaugurated the publication of a literary quarterly, +<i>The Arkham Sampler</i>, devoted to matters fantastic, publishing +fiction, poetry, letters, articles, bibliographical +data, <i>et alia</i>, to sell at $1.00 the copy. This venture, however,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xi">[Pg xi]</span> +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.</p> + +<p>The close of the first decade of publishing saw a substantial +number of Arkham House titles out of print—<i>The +Outsider and Others</i>, <i>Someone in the Dark</i>, <i>Out of +Space and Time</i>, <i>Beyond the Wall of Sleep</i>, <i>The Eye and +the Finger</i>, <i>Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales</i>, <i>Lost +Worlds</i>, <i>Marginalia</i>, <i>Something Near</i>, <i>The Opener of the +Way</i>, <i>Slan</i>, <i>Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories</i>—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 <i>Sleep No More</i>, +<i>Who Knocks?</i> and <i>The Night Side</i>—were likewise out +of print, and others, prepared for Pellegrini & Cudahy, +were being reprinted—<i>The Sleeping and the Dead</i>, +<i>Strange Ports of Call</i>, <i>The Other Side of the Moon</i>. Most +significant of all, by 1950 almost a dozen other small +houses had mushroomed into existence to follow the lead<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xii">[Pg xii]</span> +of Arkham House, and several major publishing houses +were bringing out science-fiction.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xiii">[Pg xiii]</span> +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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>The Arkham Sampler</i>, which was +produced by the Howe Printing Company of Prairie du +Chien, Wisconsin, and <i>Night’s Yawning Peal</i> and <i>Tales +from Underwood</i>, 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 <i>The Memoirs of Solar Pons</i>, which was plated, for +use as a selection of The Unicorn Mystery Book Club.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xiv">[Pg xiv]</span> +Frank Wakefield, Howard Wandrei, Virgil Finley, Robert +F. Hubbell, George Barrows, Hannes Bok, Audrey +Johnson, R. Taylor, and Gary Gore.</p> + +<p>During its first twenty years, Arkham House cancelled +publication plans for certain books. Among these were +J. Sheridan LeFanu’s novel, <i>The House by the Churchyard</i>, +and the anthology, <i>The Death Fetch and Other +Gothic Tales</i>, 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 <i>Mimsy Were the Borogoves</i> and +C. L. Moore’s <i>Shambleau and Other Tales</i>, 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 <i>Away and Beyond</i> +and <i>The World of Null-A</i>, and Fritz Leiber Jr.’s <i>Gather, +Darkness!</i> and <i>Conjure Wife</i>, were released to other publishers +who could do more for them.</p> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO, by Clark Ashton +Smith</p> + +<p>INVADERS FROM THE DARK, by Greye La Spina</p> + +<p>THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU, by August Derleth</p> + +<p>STRAYERS FROM SHEOL, by H. Russell Wakefield</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xv">[Pg xv]</span></p> + +<p>PLEASANT DREAMS, by Robert Bloch</p> + +<p>SELECTED LETTERS, by H. P. Lovecraft</p> + +<p>THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS, by Frank Belknap +Long</p> + +<p>THE PURCELL PAPERS, by J. Sheridan LeFanu</p> + +<p>MR. GEORGE AND OTHER ODD PERSONS, by +Stephen Grendon</p> + +<p>TIME BURIAL, by Howard Wandrei</p> + +<p>THREE TALES, by Walter de la Mare</p> + +<p>RADIANT MAN, by Donald Wandrei</p> + +<p>TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY, by Clark +Ashton Smith</p> + +<p>HALF IN SHADOW, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman</p> + +<p>PORTRAITS BY MOONLIGHT, by Carl Jacobi</p> + +<p>XELUCHA AND OTHERS, by M. P. Shiel</p> + +<p>STRANGE GATEWAYS, by E. Hoffmann Price</p> + +<p>LONESOME PLACES, by August Derleth</p> + +<p>THE GREEN ROUND, by Arthur Machen</p> + +<p>WORSE THINGS WAITING, by Manly Wade Wellman</p> + +<p>BLACK MEDICINE, by Arthur J. Burks</p> + +<p>COLONEL MARKESAN AND LESS PLEASANT</p> + +<p>PEOPLE, by August Derleth and Mark Schorer</p> + +<p>COLLECTED POEMS, by Donald Wandrei</p> + +<p>THE WIND IN THE CEDARS, by August Derleth</p> + +<p>SELECTED POEMS, by Clark Ashton Smith</p> + +<p>COLLECTED POEMS, by H. P. Lovecraft</p> + +<p>THE WATCHERS OUT OF TIME, by H. P. Lovecraft +and August Derleth</p> +</div> + +<p>and, under the Mycroft & Moran imprint,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>THE REMINISCENCES OF SOLAR PONS, by August +Derleth</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xvi">[Pg xvi]</span></p> + +<p>PRINCE ZALESKI & CUMMINGS KING MONK, +by M. P. Shiel</p> + +<p>THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS, by August +Derleth</p> +</div> + +<p>and Stanton & Lee,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>EVERETT TRUE, by A. D. Condo</p> +</div> +<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xvii">[Pg xvii]</span></p> + +<p class="ph2">Bibliography</p> +</div> + + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>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: <i>Howard +Phillips Lovecraft: Outsider</i>, by August Derleth & +Donald Wandrei / <i>Dagon</i> / <i>Polaris</i> / <i>Celephais/Hypnos</i> / <i>The +Cats of Ulthar</i> / <i>The Strange High +House in the Mist</i> / <i>The Statement of Randolph Carter</i> / <i>The +Silver Key</i> / <i>Through the Gates of the Silver +Key</i> / <i>The Outsider</i> / <i>The Music of Erich Zann</i> / <i>The +Rats in the Walls</i> / <i>Cool Air</i> / <i>He</i> / <i>The Horror at +Red Hook</i> / <i>The Temple</i> / <i>Arthur Jermyn</i> / <i>The Picture +in the House</i> / <i>The Festival</i> / <i>The Terrible Old +Man</i> / <i>The Tomb</i> / <i>The Shunned House</i> / <i>In the +Vault</i> / <i>Pickman’s Model</i> / <i>The Haunter of the Dark</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xviii">[Pg xviii]</span> / +<i>The Dreams in the Witch-House</i> / <i>The Thing on the +Doorstep</i> / <i>The Nameless City</i> / <i>The Lurking Fear</i> / +<i>The Call of Cthulhu</i> / <i>The Colour out of Space</i> / <i>The +Dunwich Horror</i> / <i>The Whisperer in Darkness</i> / <i>The +Shadow over Innsmouth</i> / <i>The Shadow out of Time</i> / +<i>At the Mountains of Madness</i> / <i>Supernatural Horror +in Literature</i>.</p> + +<p>SOMEONE IN THE DARK, by August Derleth. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1941. pp. 335. +$2.00. 1,115 copies printed. Contents: <i>When the +Night and the House Are Still</i> / <i>Glory Hand</i> / <i>Compliments +of Spectro</i> / <i>A Gift for Uncle Herman</i> / <i>McGovern’s +Obsession</i> / <i>Three Gentlemen in Black</i> / +<i>Muggridge’s Aunt</i> / <i>Bramwell’s Guardian</i> / <i>Joliper’s +Gift</i> / <i>Altimer’s Amulet</i> / <i>The Shuttered House</i> / <i>The +Sheraton Mirror</i> / <i>The Wind from the River</i> / <i>The +Telephone in the Library</i> / <i>The Panelled Room</i> / <i>The +Return of Hastur</i> / <i>The Sandwin Compact</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>Clark +Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy</i>, by August Derleth +& Donald Wandrei / <i>The End of the Story</i> / <i>A Rendezvous +in Averoigne</i> / <i>A Night in Malnéant</i> / <i>The +City of the Singing Flame</i> / <i>The Uncharted Isle</i> / <i>The +Second Interment</i> / <i>The Double Shadow</i> / <i>The Chain +of Aforgomon</i> / <i>The Dark Eidolon</i> / <i>The Last Hieroglyph</i> +/ <i>Sadastor</i> / <i>The Death of Ilalotha</i> / <i>The Return +of the Sorcerer</i> / <i>The Testament of Athammaus</i> / +<i>The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan</i> / <i>Ubbo-Sathla</i> /<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xix">[Pg xix]</span> +<i>The Monster of the Prophecy</i> / <i>The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis</i> +/ <i>From the Crypts of Memory</i> / <i>The Shadows</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>By Way +of Introduction</i>, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei +/ <i>Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity</i> / +<i>The Commonplace Book</i> / <i>History and Chronology of +the</i> Necronomicon / <i>Memory</i> / <i>What the Moon Brings</i> +/ <i>Nyarlathotep</i> / <i>Ex Oblivione</i> / <i>The Tree</i> / <i>The +Other Gods</i> / <i>The Quest of Iranon</i> / <i>The Doom That +Came to Sarnath</i> / <i>The White Ship</i> / <i>From Beyond</i> / +<i>Beyond the Wall of Sleep</i> / <i>The Unnamable</i> / <i>The +Hound</i> / <i>The Moon-Bog</i> / <i>The Evil Clergyman</i> / <i>Herbert +West—Reanimator</i> / <i>The Dream-Quest of Unknown +Kadath</i> / <i>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward</i> / +<i>The Crawling Chaos</i> (with Elizabeth Berkeley) / <i>The +Green Meadow</i> (with Elizabeth Berkeley) / <i>The Curse +of Yig</i>, by Zealia Brown-Reed / <i>The Horror in the +Museum</i>, by Hazel Heald / <i>Out of the Eons</i>, by Hazel +Heald / <i>The Mound</i>, by Zealia Brown-Reed / <i>The +Diary of Alonzo Typer</i>, by William Lumley / <i>The +Challenge from Beyond</i> (with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, +Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long) / +<i>In the Walls of Eryx</i> (with Kenneth Sterling) / <i>Ibid</i> +/ <i>Sweet Ermengarde</i> / <i>Providence</i> / <i>On a Grecian +Colonnade in a Park</i> / <i>Old Christmas</i> / <i>New England +Fallen</i> / <i>On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight</i> +/ <i>Astrophobos</i> / <i>Sunset</i> / <i>A Year Off</i> / <i>A Summer +Sunset and Evening</i> / <i>To Mistress Sophia Simple,</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xx">[Pg xx]</span> +<i>Queen of the Cinema</i> / <i>The Ancient Track</i> / <i>The +Eidolon</i> / <i>The Nightmare Lake</i> / <i>The Outpost</i> / <i>The +Rutted Road</i> / <i>The Wood</i> / <i>Hallowe’en in a Suburb</i> / +<i>Primavera</i> / <i>October</i> / <i>To a Dreamer</i> / <i>Despair</i> / <i>Nemesis</i> +/ <i>Psychopompos</i> / <i>The Book</i> / <i>Pursuit</i> / <i>The +Key</i> / <i>Recognition</i> / <i>Homecoming</i> / <i>The Lamp</i> / <i>Zaman’s +Hill</i> / <i>The Port</i> / <i>The Courtyard</i> / <i>The Pigeon-Flyers</i> +/ <i>The Well</i> / <i>The Howler</i> / <i>Hesperia</i> / <i>Star-Winds</i> +/ <i>Antarktos</i> / <i>The Window</i> / <i>A Memory</i> / +<i>The Gardens of Yin</i> / <i>The Bells</i> / <i>Night-Gaunts</i> / +<i>Nyarlathotep</i> / <i>Azathoth</i> / <i>Mirage</i> / <i>The Canal</i> / <i>St. +Toad’s</i> / <i>The Familiars</i> / <i>The Elder Pharos</i> / <i>Expectancy</i> +/ <i>Nostalgia</i> / <i>Background</i> / <i>The Dweller</i> / <i>Alienation</i> +/ <i>Harbour Whistles</i> / <i>Recapture</i> / <i>Evening +Star</i> / <i>Continuity</i> / <i>Yule Horror</i> / <i>To Mr. Finlay</i> / <i>To +Clark Ashton Smith</i> / <i>Where Once Poe Walked</i> / +<i>Christmas Greeting to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell</i> / <i>Brick +Row</i> / <i>The Messenger</i> / <i>The Cthulhu Mythology: a +Glossary</i>, by Francis T. Laney / <i>An Appreciation of +H. P. Lovecraft</i>, by W. Paul Cook.</p> + +<p>THE EYE AND THE FINGER, by Donald Wandrei. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. xiii., +344. $3.00. 1,617 copies printed. Contents: <i>Introduction</i> +/ <i>The Lady in Gray</i> / <i>The Eye and the Finger</i> / +<i>The Painted Mirror</i> / <i>It Will Grow on You</i> / <i>The +Tree-Men of M’Bwa</i> / <i>The Lives of Alfred Kramer</i> / +<i>The Monster from Nowhere</i> / <i>The Witch-Makers</i> / +<i>The Nerveless Man</i> / <i>Black Fog</i> / <i>The Blinding Shadows</i> +/ <i>A Scientist Divides</i> / <i>Earth Minus</i> / <i>Finality +Unlimited</i> / <i>The Crystal Bullet</i> / <i>A Fragment of a +Dream</i> / <i>The Woman at the Window</i> / <i>The Messengers</i> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxi">[Pg xxi]</span>/ <i>The Pursuers</i> / <i>The Red Brain</i> / <i>On the +Threshold of Eternity</i>.</p> + +<p>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: +<i>Henry S. Whitehead</i>, by R. H. Barlow / <i>Jumbee</i> +/ <i>Cassius</i> / <i>Black Tancrède</i> / <i>The Shadows</i> / <i>Sweet +Grass</i> / <i>The Black Beast</i> / <i>Seven Turns in a Hangman’s +Rope</i> / <i>The Tree-Man</i> / <i>Passing of a God</i> / <i>Mrs. Lorriquer</i> +/ <i>Hill Drums</i> / <i>The Projection of Armand +Dubois</i> / <i>The Lips</i> / <i>The Fireplace</i>.</p> + +<p>LOST WORLDS, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. 419. $3.00. +2,043 copies printed. Contents: <i>The Tale of Satampra +Zeiros</i> / <i>The Door to Saturn</i> / <i>The Seven Geases</i> / +<i>The Coming of the White Worm</i> / <i>The Last Incantation</i> +/ <i>A Voyage to Sfanomoë</i> / <i>The Death of Malygris</i> +/ <i>The Holiness of Azédarac</i> / <i>The Beast of +Averoigne</i> / <i>The Empire of the Necromancers</i> / <i>The +Isle of the Torturers</i> / <i>Necromancy in Naat</i> / <i>Xeethra</i> +/ <i>The Maze of Maal Dweb</i> / <i>The Flower-Women</i> / +<i>The Demon of the Flower</i> / <i>The Plutonian Drug</i> / +<i>The Planet of the Dead</i> / <i>The Gorgon</i> / <i>The Letter +from Mohaun Los</i> / <i>The Light from Beyond</i> / <i>The +Hunters from Beyond</i> / <i>The Treader of the Dust</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>Foreword</i>, by August Derleth &<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxii">[Pg xxii]</span> +Donald Wandrei / <i>Imprisoned With the Pharaohs</i>, +by Houdini / <i>Medusa’s Coil</i>, by Zealia Brown (Reed) +Bishop / <i>Winged Death</i>, by Hazel Heald / <i>The Man +of Stone</i>, by Hazel Heald / <i>Notes on the Writing of +Weird Fiction</i> / <i>Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction</i> +/ <i>Lord Dunsany and His Work</i> / <i>Heritage or Modernism; +Common Sense in Art Forms</i> / <i>Some Backgrounds +of Fairyland</i> / <i>Some Causes of Self-Immolation</i> +/ <i>A Guide to Charleston, South Carolina</i> / <i>Observations +on Several Parts of North America</i> / <i>The +Beast in the Cave</i> / <i>The Transition of Juan Romero</i> / +<i>Azathoth</i> / <i>The Book</i> / <i>The Descendant</i> / <i>The Very +Old Folk</i> / <i>The Thing in the Moonlight</i> / <i>Two Comments</i> +/ <i>His Own Most Fantastic Creation</i>, by Winfield +Townley Scott / <i>Some Random Memories of H. +P. L.</i>, by Frank Belknap Long / <i>H. P. Lovecraft: An +Appreciation</i>, by T. O. Mabbott / <i>The Wind That Is +in the Grass: A Memoir of H. P. Lovecraft in Florida</i>, +by R. H. Barlow / <i>Lovecraft and Science</i>, by Kenneth +Sterling / <i>Lovecraft as a Formative Influence</i>, by August +Derleth / <i>The Dweller in Darkness</i>, by Donald +Wandrei / <i>To Howard Phillips Lovecraft</i>, by Clark +Ashton Smith / <i>H. P. L.</i>, by Henry Kuttner / <i>Lost +Dream</i>, by Emil Petaja / <i>To Howard Phillips Lovecraft</i>, +by Francis Flagg / <i>H. P. Lovecraft</i>, by Frank +Belknap Long / <i>Elegy: In Providence the Spring ...,</i>, +by August Derleth / <i>For the Outsider: H. P. Lovecraft</i>, +by Charles E. White / <i>In Memoriam: H. P. +Lovecraft</i>, by Richard Ely Morse. With illustrations, +photographs, drawings by Lovecraft, and reproduction +of <i>Lament for H. P. L.</i>, by Alfred Galpin.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxiii">[Pg xxiii]</span></p> + +<p>SOMETHING NEAR, by August Derleth. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 274. 2,054 +copies printed. Contents: <i>A Thin Gentleman with +Gloves</i> / <i>Mr. Ames’ Devil</i> / <i>A Wig for Miss Devore</i> +/ <i>Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind</i> / <i>Pacific 421</i> / +<i>Headlines for Tod Shayne</i> / <i>No Light for Uncle Henry</i> +/ <i>Lansing’s Luxury</i> / <i>Carousel</i> / <i>Lady Macbeth of +Pimley Square</i> / <i>Here, Daemos!</i> / <i>McElwin’s Glass</i> / +<i>An Elegy for Mr. Danielson</i> / <i>The Satin Mask</i> / <i>Motive</i> +/ <i>The Metronome</i> / <i>The Inverness Cape</i> / <i>The +Thing That Walked on the Wind</i> / <i>Ithaqua</i> / <i>Beyond +the Threshold</i> / <i>The Dweller in Darkness</i>.</p> + +<p>THE OPENER OF THE WAY, by Robert Bloch. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xi., 309. +$3.00. 2,065 copies printed. Contents: <i>By Way of Introduction</i> +/ <i>The Cloak</i> / <i>Beetles</i> / <i>The Fiddler’s Fee</i> +/ <i>The Mannikin</i> / <i>The Strange Flight of Richard +Clayton</i> / <i>Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper</i> / <i>The Seal of +the Satyr</i> / <i>The Dark Demon</i> / <i>The Faceless God</i> / +<i>The House of the Hatchet</i> / <i>The Opener of the Way</i> +/ <i>Return to the Sabbath</i> / <i>The Mandarin’s Canaries</i> / +<i>Waxworks</i> / <i>The Feast in the Abbey</i> / <i>Slave of the +Flames</i> / <i>The Shambler from the Stars</i> / <i>Mother of +Serpents</i> / <i>The Secret of Sebek</i> / <i>The Eyes of the +Mummy</i> / <i>One Way to Mars</i>.</p> + +<p>WITCH HOUSE, by Evangeline Walton. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 200. $2.50. +2,949 copies printed.</p> + +<p>GREEN TEA AND OTHER GHOST STORIES, by<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxiv">[Pg xxiv]</span> +J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, +1945. pp. x., 357. $3.00. 2,026 copies printed. +Contents: <i>Foreword</i>, by August Derleth / <i>Schalken +the Painter</i> / <i>Squire Toby’s Will</i> / <i>Green Tea</i> / +<i>Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling</i> / <i>Carmilla</i> / +<i>The Sexton’s Adventure</i> / <i>Madam Crowl’s Ghost</i> / <i>Sir +Dominick’s Bargain</i> / <i>The Vision of Tom Chuff</i> / +<i>Ultor De Lacy</i> / <i>Dickon the Devil</i> / <i>The House in +Aungier Street</i> / <i>Mr. Justice Harbottle</i> / <i>The Familiar</i>.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap +Long. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. +pp. 316. $3.00. 2,602 copies printed. Contents: <i>A +Visitor from Egypt</i> / <i>The Refugees</i> / <i>Fisherman’s +Luck</i> / <i>Death-Waters</i> / <i>Grab Bags Are Dangerous</i> / +<i>The Elemental</i> / <i>The Peeper</i> / <i>Bridgehead</i> / <i>Second +Night Out</i> / <i>The Dark Beasts</i> / <i>Census Taker</i> / <i>The +Ocean Leech</i> / <i>The Space-Eaters</i> / <i>It Will Come to +You</i> / <i>A Stitch in Time</i> / <i>Step into My Garden</i> / <i>The +Hounds of Tindalos</i> / <i>Dark Vision</i> / <i>The Flame Midget</i> +/ <i>Golden Child</i> / <i>The Black Druid</i>.</p> + +<p>THE DOLL AND ONE OTHER, by Algernon Blackwood. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. +pp. 138. $1.50. 3,490 copies printed. Contents: <i>The +Doll</i> / <i>The Trod</i>.</p> + +<p>THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND +OTHER NOVELS, by William Hope Hodgson. Arkham<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxv">[Pg xxv]</span> +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xi., 639. +$5.00. 3,014 copies printed. Contents: <i>William Hope +Hodgson, Master of the Weird and Fantastic</i>, by H. C. +Koenig / <i>The Boats of the “Glen Carrig”</i> / <i>The +House on the Borderland</i> / <i>The Ghost Pirates</i> / <i>The +Night Land</i> / <i>Bibliography</i>, by A. Langley Searles.</p> + +<p>SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS, by Robert E. Howard. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. x., +475. $5.00. 3,004 copies printed. Contents: <i>Foreword</i>, +by August Derleth / <i>Which Will Scarcely Be Understood</i> +/ <i>Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam</i>, by H. P. +Lovecraft / <i>A Memory of R. E. Howard</i>, by E. Hoffmann +Price / <i>Wolfshead</i> / <i>The Black Stone</i> / <i>The +Horror from the Mound</i> / <i>The Cairn on the Headland</i> +/ <i>Black Canaan</i> / <i>The Fire of Asshurbanipal</i> / +<i>A Man-Eating Jeopard</i> / <i>Skull-Face</i> / <i>The Hyborian +Age</i> / <i>Worms of the Earth</i> / <i>The Valley of the +Worm</i> / <i>Skulls in the Stars</i> / <i>Rattle of Bones</i> / <i>The +Hills of the Dead</i> / <i>Wings in the Night</i> / <i>The Shadow +Kingdom</i> / <i>The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune</i> / <i>Kings of +the Night</i> / <i>The Phoenix on the Sword</i> / <i>The Scarlet +Citadel</i> / <i>The Tower of the Elephant</i> / <i>Rogues in the +House</i> / <i>Shadows in Zamboula</i> / <i>Lines Written in the +Realization that I Must Die</i>.</p> + +<p>WEST INDIA LIGHTS, by Henry S. Whitehead. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 367. +$3.00. 3,037 copies printed. Contents: <i>Black Terror</i> / +<i>West India Lights</i> / “<i>Williamson</i>” / <i>The Shut Room</i> +/ <i>The Left Eye</i> / <i>Tea Leaves</i> / <i>The Trap</i> / <i>The Napier +Limousine</i> / <i>The Ravel</i> Pavane / <i>Sea Change</i> / <i>The</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxvi">[Pg xxvi]</span> +<i>People of Pan</i> / <i>The Chadbourne Episode</i> / <i>Scar Tissue</i> +/ “—<i>In Case of Disaster Only</i>” / <i>Bothon</i> / <i>The +Great Circle</i> / <i>Obi in the Caribbean</i>.</p> + +<p>FEARFUL PLEASURES, by A. E. Coppard. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xiii., 301. +$3.00. 4,033 copies printed. Contents: <i>Foreword</i> / +<i>Adam and Eve and Pinch Me</i> / <i>Clorinda Walks in +Heaven</i> / <i>The Elixir of Youth</i> / <i>Simple Simon</i> / <i>Old +Martin</i> / <i>The Bogie Man</i> / <i>Polly Morgan</i> / <i>The Gollan</i> +/ <i>The Post Office and the Serpent</i> / <i>Crotty Shinkwin</i> +/ <i>Ahoy, Sailor Boy!</i> / <i>Gone Away</i> / <i>Rocky and +the Bailiff</i> / <i>Ale Celestial?</i> /<i>The Fair Young Willowy +Tree</i> / <i>Father Raven</i> / <i>The Drum</i> / <i>Cheese</i> / <i>The +Homeless One</i> / <i>The Kisstruck Bogie</i> / <i>The Tiger</i> / +<i>The Gruesome Fit</i>.</p> + +<p>THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE, by H. Russell Wakefield. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. +xi., 248. $3.00. 4,040 copies printed. Contents: <i>Why +I Write Ghost Stories</i> / <i>Into Outer Darkness</i> / <i>The +Alley</i> / <i>Jay Walkers</i> / <i>Ingredient X</i> / “<i>I Recognized +the Voice</i>” / <i>Farewell Performance</i> / <i>Not Quite +Cricket</i> / <i>In Collaboration</i> / <i>A Stitch in Time</i> / <i>Lucky’s +Grove</i> / <i>Red Feathers</i> / <i>Happy Ending?</i> / <i>The First +Sheaf</i> / <i>Masrur</i> / <i>A Fishing Story</i> / <i>Used Car</i> / <i>Death +of a Poacher</i> / <i>Knock! Knock! Who’s There?</i></p> + +<p>SLAN, by A. E. Van Vogt. Arkham House, Sauk City, +Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 216. $2.50. 4,051 copies printed.</p> + +<p>THIS MORTAL COIL, by Cynthia Asquith. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 245. $3.00.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxvii">[Pg xxvii]</span> +2,609 copies printed. Contents: <i>In a Nutshell</i> / <i>The +White Moth</i> / <i>The Corner Shop</i> / “<i>God Grante That +She Lye Stille</i>” / <i>The Playfellow</i> / <i>The Nurse Never +Told</i> / <i>The Lovely Voice</i> / <i>The First Night</i> / <i>The +Follower</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>Introduction</i>, by August +Derleth / <i>The Twa Corbies</i> / <i>A Lyke-Wake +Direg</i> / <i>William and Marjorie</i> / <i>The Wee Wee Man</i> +/ <i>The Wife of Usher’s Well</i> / <i>Fair Eleanor</i>, by William +Blake / <i>Address to the Deil</i>, <i>Tam o’ Shanter</i>, +<i>Death and Doctor Hornbook</i>, by Robert Burns / <i>Kilmeny</i>, +by James Hogg / <i>The Eve of St. John</i>, by Sir +Walter Scott / <i>Kubla Khan</i>, <i>Phantom</i>, by Samuel +Taylor Coleridge / <i>The Lake of the Dismal Swamp</i>, +by Thomas Moore / <i>The Hand of Glory</i>, by Richard +Harris Barham / <i>The Erl King</i>, by Johann Wolfgang +von Goethe / <i>La Belle Dame Sans Merci</i>, by John +Keats / <i>The Haunted House</i>, <i>The Dream of Eugene +Aram</i>, <i>Pompey’s Ghost</i>, <i>The Ghost</i>, by Thomas Hood +/ <i>The Phantom-Wooer</i>, <i>The Ghosts’ Moonshine</i>, by +Thomas Lovell Beddoes / <i>The Phantom Ship</i>, <i>The +Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi</i>, <i>The Ghosts</i>, by Henry +Wadsworth Longfellow / <i>The Raven</i>, <i>Dream-Land</i>, +<i>Ulalume</i>, by Edgar Allan Poe / <i>Rizpah</i>, by Alfred +Lord Tennyson / <i>A Lowland Witch Ballad</i>, by William +Bell Scott / <i>The Legend of the Glaive</i>, by J. +Sheridan Le Fanu / <i>The Weird Lady</i>, <i>The Sands of +Dee</i>, by Charles Kingsley / <i>Keith of Ravelston</i>, by<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxviii">[Pg xxviii]</span> +Sydney Thompson Dobell / <i>The Witch Bride</i>, <i>The +Fairies</i>, by William Allingham / <i>The Flying Dutchman</i>, +by Charles Godfrey Leland / <i>The Lost Steamship</i>, +<i>The Three Gannets</i>, <i>The Demon of the Gibbet</i>, +by Fitz-James O’Brien / <i>Sister Helen</i>, by Dante Gabriel +Rossetti / <i>Goblin Market</i>, <i>The Ghost’s Petition</i>, +by Christina Rossetti / <i>The City of Dreadful Night</i>, +by James Thomson / <i>The Wind</i>, by William Morris / +<i>The Highwayman’s Ghost</i>, by Richard Garnett / <i>The +Ballad of Judas Iscariot</i>, by Robert Buchanan / <i>The +Song of the Ghost</i>, by A. P. Graves / <i>A Glimpse of +Pan</i>, <i>The Witch of Erkmurden</i>, by James Whitcomb +Riley / <i>A Windy Night</i>, <i>Roads</i>, <i>An April Ghost</i>, +<i>Bitters</i>, by Lizette Woodworth Reese / <i>The True +Lover</i>, by A. E. Housman / <i>Lazarus</i>, by José Asunción +Silva / <i>All Souls’ Night</i>, <i>The Fair Little Maiden</i>, <i>The +Fetch</i>, <i>The Fairy Thorn-Tree</i>, by Dora Sigerson Shorter +/ <i>Luke Havergal</i>, by Edwin Arlington Robinson / <i>The +Superstitious Ghost</i>, by Arthur Guiterman / <i>The Listeners</i>, +<i>The Little Green Orchard</i>, <i>The Ghost</i>, by Walter +de la Mare / <i>A Dracula of the Hills</i>, <i>The Paper in +the Gate-Legged Table</i>, <i>Haunted</i>, by Amy Lowell / <i>The +Witch of Coös</i>, by Robert Frost / <i>The Little Dead +Child</i>, by Josephine Daskam Bacon / <i>Dave Lilly</i>, by +Joyce Kilmer / <i>The Sorceress of the Moon</i>, by William +Rose Benet / <i>221B</i>, <i>Changeling</i>, <i>Visitation</i>, +<i>Legend</i>, <i>Gooseflesh</i>, <i>Extraordinary Visit</i>, <i>Sea Story</i>, by +Vincent Starrett / <i>Lonesome Water</i>, <i>Old Christmas</i>, +by Roy Helton / <i>Psychopompos</i>, <i>Fungi from Yuggoth</i> +(<i>The Book</i>, <i>Pursuit</i>, <i>The Key</i>, <i>Recognition</i>, <i>Homecoming</i>, +<i>The Lamp</i>, <i>Zaman’s Hill</i>, <i>The Port</i>, <i>The</i> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxix">[Pg xxix]</span><i>Courtyard</i>, <i>The Pigeon-Flyers</i>, <i>The Well</i>, <i>The Howler</i>, +<i>Hesperia</i>, <i>Star-Winds</i>, <i>Antarktos</i>, <i>The Window</i>, <i>A +Memory</i>, <i>The Gardens of Yin</i>, <i>The Bells</i>, <i>Night-Gaunts</i>, +<i>Nyarlathotep</i>, <i>Azathoth</i>, <i>Mirage</i>, <i>The Canal</i>, +<i>St. Toad’s</i>, <i>The Familiars</i>, <i>The Elder Pharos</i>, <i>Expectancy</i>, +<i>Nostalgia</i>, <i>Background</i>, <i>The Dweller</i>, <i>Alienation</i>, +<i>Harbour Whistles</i>, <i>Recapture</i>, <i>Evening Star</i>, <i>Continuity</i>), +<i>The Messenger</i>, <i>The Ancient Track</i>, by Howard +Phillips Lovecraft / <i>The Warning</i>, by Robert P. +Tristram Coffin / <i>The Eldritch Dark</i>, <i>Warning</i>, <i>The +Hashish-Eater</i>, <i>Nightmare</i>, <i>Outlanders</i>, <i>Nyctalops</i>, +<i>Shadows</i>, <i>The Envoys</i>, <i>Fantaisie d’Antan</i>, <i>In Thessaly</i>, +<i>Resurrection</i>, by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>The Owls</i>, by +Timeus Gaylord / <i>The Orchard Ghost</i>, by Mark Van +Doren / <i>Werewolf</i>, by Arthur Inman / <i>Metropolitan +Nightmare</i>, <i>Nightmare Number Three</i>, by Stephen +Vincent Benét / <i>The Goblin Tower</i>, <i>In Mayan Splendor</i>, +<i>Sonnet</i>, <i>A Knight of La Mancha</i>, <i>On Reading +Arthur Machen</i>, <i>The Abominable Snow Men</i>, <i>The +Horror on Dagoth Wold</i>, by Frank Belknap Long / +<i>Just Then the Door</i>, by Merrill Moore / <i>Forgetful +Hour</i>, <i>The Specter’s Tale</i>, <i>The Haunted Stairs</i>, by +Yetza Gillespie / <i>The Snake</i>, <i>The Dreamer in the +Desert</i>, by Francis Flagg / <i>Strange</i>, <i>Forest God</i>, <i>Tree +Woman</i>, <i>The Wolves of Egremont</i>, by Dorothy Quick +/ <i>The Harp of Alfred</i>, <i>Futility</i>, <i>The Singer in the +Mist</i>, <i>Solomon Kane’s Homecoming</i>, <i>Moon Mockery</i>, +<i>The King and the Oak</i>, <i>Recompense</i>, <i>Always Comes +Evening</i>, <i>The Ghost Kings</i>, <i>The Last Hour</i>, <i>Which +Will Scarcely Be Understood</i>, <i>Lines Written in the +Realization That I Must Die</i>, by Robert Ervin Howard<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxx">[Pg xxx]</span> +/ <i>Sonnets of the Midnight Hours</i> (<i>After Sleep</i>, <i>Purple</i>, +<i>The Hungry Flowers</i>, <i>The Eye</i>, <i>The Torturers</i>, <i>The +Statues</i>, <i>The Old Companions</i>, <i>The Head</i>, <i>In the Attic</i>, +<i>The Cocoon</i>, <i>The Metal God</i>, <i>The Little Creature</i>, +<i>The Pool</i>, <i>The Prey</i>, <i>The Rack</i>, <i>Escape</i>, <i>Capture</i>, <i>In +the Pit</i>, <i>The Bell</i>, <i>The Ultimate Vision</i>), by Donald +Wandrei / <i>Weldon House</i>, <i>Lois Malone</i>, <i>Ted Birkett</i>, +<i>Bart Hinch</i>, <i>The Shores of Night</i>, <i>Man at the Window</i>, +<i>Stranger in the Night</i>, <i>Mark of Man—Mark of Beast</i>, +by August Derleth / <i>Sonnet of the Unsleeping Dead</i>, +by Anthony Boucher / <i>Fox Hunters of Hell</i>, by Byron +Herbert Reece / <i>Dreams of Yith</i>, by Duane W. Rimel +/ <i>Nostalgia</i>, <i>Echidna</i>, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman / +<i>Changeling</i>, <i>Wood Wife</i>, <i>In the Shadows</i>, <i>The Path +Through the Marsh</i>, <i>The Tenants</i>, <i>All-Saints’ Eve</i>, +<i>The Ballad of the Jabberwock</i>, <i>Heard on the Roof at +Midnight</i>, by Leah Bodine Drake / <i>Wayfarers</i>, <i>Two +Hunters</i>, by Harvey Wagner Flink / <i>Star Gazer</i>, <i>Death +at Sea</i>, <i>The Goats of Juan Fernandez</i>, by Coleman +Rosenberger.</p> + +<p>DARK CARNIVAL, by Ray Bradbury. Arkham House, +Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 313. $3.00. 3,112 +copies printed. Contents: <i>The Homecoming</i> / <i>Skeleton</i> +/ <i>The Jar</i> / <i>The Lake</i> / <i>The Maiden</i> / <i>The Tombstone</i> +/ <i>The Smiling People</i> / <i>The Emissary</i> / <i>The +Traveler</i> / <i>The Small Assassin</i> / <i>The Crowd</i> / <i>Reunion</i> +/ <i>The Handler</i> / <i>The Coffin</i> / <i>Interim</i> / <i>Jack-in-the-Box</i> +/ <i>The Scythe</i> / <i>Let’s Play “Poison”</i> / <i>Uncle +Einar</i> / <i>The Wind</i> / <i>The Night</i> / <i>There Was an Old +Woman</i> / <i>The Dead Man</i> / <i>The Man Upstairs</i> / <i>The +Night Sets</i> / <i>Cistern</i> / <i>The Next in Line</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxi">[Pg xxxi]</span></p> + +<p>REVELATIONS IN BLACK, by Carl Jacobi. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 272. $3.00. +3,082 copies printed. Contents: <i>Revelations in Black</i> / +<i>Phantom Brass</i> / <i>The Cane</i> / <i>The Coach on the Ring</i> / +<i>The Kite</i> / <i>Canal</i> / <i>The Satanic Piano</i> / <i>The Last Drive</i> +/ <i>The Spectral Pistol</i> / <i>Sagasta’s Last</i> / <i>The Tomb from +Beyond</i> / <i>The Digging at Pistol Key</i> / <i>Moss Island</i> / +<i>Carnaby’s Fish</i> / <i>The King and the Knave</i> / <i>Cosmic +Teletype</i> / <i>A Pair of Swords</i> / <i>A Study in Darkness</i> +/ <i>Mive</i> / <i>Writing on the Wall</i> / <i>The Face in the +Wind</i>.</p> + +<p>NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. x., 237. +$3.00. 3,084 copies printed. Contents: <i>Foreword</i> / +<i>Smoke Ghost</i> / <i>The Automatic Pistol</i> / <i>The Inheritance</i> +/ <i>The Hill and the Hole</i> / <i>The Dreams of Albert +Moreland</i> / <i>The Hound</i> / <i>Diary in the Snow</i> / +<i>The Man Who Never Grew Young</i> / <i>The Sunken +Land</i> / <i>Adept’s Gambit</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>Messrs. Turkes and Talbot</i>, by H. Russell +Wakefield / <i>History and Chronology of the Necromicon</i>, +by H. P. Lovecraft. Together with some pertinent +paragraphs by August Derleth / <i>Lamia</i>, <i>The Nameless +Wraith</i>, <i>The City of Destruction</i>, by Clark Ashton +Smith / <i>A Little Anthology</i>, edited by Malcolm +Ferguson / <i>Mara</i>, by Stephen Grendon / <i>A Hornbook +for Witches</i>, by Leah Bodine Drake / <i>Checklist: The</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxii">[Pg xxxii]</span> +<i>Carvings of Clark Ashton Smith</i> / <i>The Dream-Quest +of Unknown Kadath</i>, Part I, by H. P. Lovecraft / <i>Two +Novels and an Anthology</i>, <i>From the Fan Presses</i>, <i>The +Shasta Checklist</i>, by August Derleth / <i>Through a +Glass Darkly</i>, <i>A Thorne off the Old Smith</i>, by Robert +Bloch / <i>Three Anthologies</i>, by John Haley / <i>Short +Notices</i> / <i>Editorial Commentary</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>A Damsel with a Dulcimer</i>, by Malcolm Ferguson +/ <i>Hellenic Sequel</i>, by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>A +Group of Letters</i>, by H. P. Lovecraft / <i>The Blindness +of Orion</i>, by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>West Country +Legends</i>, collected by Robert Hunt / <i>The Wind in the +Lilacs</i>, by Stephen Grendon / <i>Unhappy Ending</i>, by +Leah Bodine Drake / <i>Fantasy on the March</i>, by Fritz +Leiber, Jr. / <i>On the Cthulhu Mythos</i>, by George T. +Wetzel / <i>On “The Lurker at the Threshold”</i>, by August +Derleth / <i>From a Letter</i>, by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>A +Memoir of Lovecraft</i>, by Rheinhart Kleiner / <i>The +Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath</i>, Part 2, by H. P. +Lovecraft / <i>Ghosts in Great Britain</i>, <i>The Macabre in +Pictures</i>, by August Derleth / <i>Top-Notch Science Fiction</i>, +by John Haley / “<i>Deliver Us from Evil</i>”, by Robert +Bloch / <i>Short Notices</i> / <i>Editorial Commentary</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>A Kink in Space-Time</i>, by H. Russell Wakefield +/ <i>Night in the City</i>, by Geraldine Wolf / <i>The</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxiii">[Pg xxxiii]</span> +<i>Novels of M. P. Shiel</i>, by A. Reynolds Morse / <i>No +Stranger Dream</i>, <i>On the Mount of Stone</i>, by Clark +Ashton Smith / <i>The Loved Dead</i>, by C. M. Eddy, Jr. / +<i>Howard Phillips Lovecraft</i>, by Samuel Loveman / <i>A +Letter to E. Hoffmann Price</i>, by H. P. Lovecraft / <i>Old +Wives’ Tale</i>, by Leah Bodine Drake / <i>Strangers from +Hesperus</i>, by Norman Markham / <i>Further West Country +Legends</i>, collected by Robert Hunt / <i>The Dream-Quest +of Unknown Kadath</i>, Part 3, by H. P. Lovecraft +/ <i>Dr. Keller’s Stories</i>, by John Haley / <i>Wit and Satire</i>, +<i>Studies in Murder</i>, by August Derleth / <i>Gremlins</i>, by +Leah Bodine Drake / <i>Short Notices</i> / <i>Editorial Commentary</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>The Sign</i>, by Lord Dunsany / <i>Providence: +Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight</i>, by August Derleth +/ <i>A Note on Aubrey Beardsley</i>, by Malcolm Ferguson / +<i>Only to One Returned</i>, by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>A +Spell Useful Near Water</i>, by Peter Viereck / <i>Nut Bush +Farm</i>, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell / <i>The Unknown Land</i>, +by Leah Bodine Drake / <i>The Dream-Quest of Unknown +Kadath</i>, Conclusion, by H. P. Lovecraft / +<i>Change of Heart</i>, by Robert Bloch / <i>Anterior Life</i>, by +Charles Baudelaire, translated by Clark Ashton Smith / +<i>The Machen Collection</i>, <i>Books of Magical Lore</i>, by +August Derleth / <i>John Campbell’s Stories</i>, by John +Haley / “<i>The World Is My Idea</i>,” by Robert Bloch / +<i>A Cosmic Novel</i>, by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>Short Notices</i> +/ <i>Editorial Commentary</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxiv">[Pg xxxiv]</span></p> + +<p>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: +<i>A Visitor from Down Under</i> / <i>Podolo</i> / <i>Three, or +Four, for Dinner</i> / <i>The Travelling Grave</i> / <i>Feet Foremost</i> +/ <i>The Cotillon</i> / <i>A Change of Ownership</i> / <i>The +Thought</i> / <i>Conrad and the Dragon</i> / <i>The Island</i> / +<i>Night Fears</i> / <i>The Killing Bottle</i>.</p> + +<p>THE WEB OF EASTER ISLAND, by Donald Wandrei. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 191. +$3.00. 3,068 copies printed.</p> + +<p>THE FOURTH BOOK OF JORKENS, by Lord Dunsany. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. +194. $3.00. 3,118 copies printed. Contents: <i>Making +Fine Weather</i> / <i>Mgamu</i> /<i>The Haunting of Halahanstown</i> +/ <i>The Pale-Green Image</i> / <i>Jorkens Leaves Prison</i> +/ <i>The Warning</i> / <i>The Sacred City of Krakovlitz</i> / <i>Jorkens +Practises Medicine and Magic</i> / <i>Jarton’s Disease</i> / +<i>On the Other Side of the Sun</i> / <i>The Rebuff</i> / <i>Jorkens’ +Ride</i> / <i>The Secret of the Sphinx</i> / <i>The Khamseen</i> / +<i>The Expulsion</i> / <i>The Welcome</i> / <i>By Command of +Pharaoh</i> / <i>A Cricket Problem</i> / <i>A Life’s Work</i> / <i>The +Ingratiating Smile</i> / <i>The Last Bull</i> / <i>The Strange +Drug of Dr. Caber</i> / <i>A Deal with the Devil</i> / <i>Strategy +at the Billiards Club</i> / <i>Jorkens in Witch Wood</i> / <i>Lost</i> +/ <i>The English Magnifico</i> / <i>The Cleverness of Dr. +Caber</i> / <i>Fairy Gold</i> / <i>A Royal Dinner</i> / <i>A Fight with +Knives</i> / <i>Out West</i> / <i>In a Dim Room</i>.</p> + +<p>ROADS, by Seabury Quinn. With Illustrations by Virgil<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxv">[Pg xxxv]</span> +Finlay. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. +pp. 110. $2.00. 2,137 copies printed.</p> + +<p>GENIUS LOCI AND OTHER TALES, by Clark Ashton +Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. +pp. 228. $3.00. 3,047 copies printed. Contents: <i>Genius +Loci</i> / <i>The Willow Landscape</i> / <i>The Ninth Skeleton</i> +/ <i>The Phantoms of the Fire</i> / <i>The Eternal World</i> / +<i>Vulthoom</i> / <i>A Star-Change</i> / <i>The Primal City</i> / <i>The +Disinterment of Venus</i> / <i>The Colossus of Ylourgne</i> / +<i>The Satyr</i> / <i>The Garden of Adompha</i> / <i>The Charnel +God</i> / <i>The Black Abbot of Puthuum</i> / <i>The Weaver +in the Vault</i>.</p> + +<p>NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD, by August Derleth. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. x., +221. $3.00. 2,067 copies printed. Contents: <i>Foreword</i> +/ <i>The Shadow on the Sky</i> / <i>Birkett’s Twelfth Corpse</i> +/ <i>The White Moth</i> / <i>Nellie Foster</i> / <i>Wild Grapes</i> / +<i>Feigman’s Beard</i> / <i>The Drifting Snow</i> / <i>The Return +of Sarah Purcell</i> / <i>Logoda’s Heads</i> / <i>The Second +Print</i> / <i>Mrs. Elting Does Her Part</i> / <i>A Little Knowledge</i> +/ <i>Mrs. Bentley’s Daughter</i> / <i>Those Who Seek</i> / +<i>Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream</i> / <i>The Tenant</i> / <i>The Lilac +Bush</i> / “<i>Just a Song at Twilight</i>” / <i>A Matter of +Sight</i> / <i>Prince Borgia’s Mass</i> / <i>A Dinner at Imola</i> / +<i>Lesandro’s Familiar</i> / <i>The Bridge of Sighs</i> / <i>A Cloak +from Messer Lando</i> / <i>He Shall Come</i> / <i>Mrs. Lannisfree</i> +/ <i>After You, Mr. Henderson</i> / <i>Baynter’s Imp</i> / +<i>The Lost Day</i> / <i>A Collector of Stones</i> / <i>The God-Box</i> +/ <i>Saunder’s Little Friend</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxvi">[Pg xxxvi]</span></p> + +<p>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: <i>A Basic Science-Fiction Library</i>, 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 / <i>Avowal</i>, +by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>The Spring Night</i>, by Ray +Bradbury / <i>The Case for Science-Fiction</i>, by Sam +Moskowitz / <i>Dear Pen Pal</i>, by A. E. Van Vogt / <i>The +Pool in the Wood</i>, by August Derleth / <i>Solution of +Mind Problems by the Imagination</i>, by Jules Verne / +<i>The Swallowers of Universes</i>, by Peter Viereck / <i>David +Henry Keller and the Scientific Novel in the United +States</i>, by Regis Messac / <i>Time to Rest</i>, by John Beynon +Harris / <i>Open Sesame!</i>, by Stephen Grendon / +<i>Travel Talk</i>, by Vincent Starrett / <i>The Moon as Goal</i>, +by Everett Bleiler / <i>Charles Williams’ Novel</i>, by Edward +Wagenknecht / <i>From the Fan Presses</i>, by Fritz +Leiber, Jr. / <i>Frank Merriwell on Venus</i>, by Robert +Bloch / <i>Factual Fantasies</i>, by Carl Jacobi / <i>Dr. Keller +Again</i>, by Weaver Wright / <i>Whimsy and Whamsy</i>, +by Leah Bodine Drake / <i>Short Notices</i> / <i>Editorial +Commentary</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>The Root of Ampoi</i>, by Clark Ashton Smith +/ <i>Fragment</i>, by Vincent Starrett / “<i>The Mummy!</i>”, by<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxvii">[Pg xxxvii]</span> +Everett Bleiler / <i>Sed Non Satiata</i>, a poem after Baudelaire, +by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>A Feather from Lucifer’s +Wing</i>, by Foreman Faulconer / <i>Lovecraft and +the Stars</i>, by E. Hoffman Price / <i>The Saints of Four-Mile +Water</i>, by Leah Bodine Drake / <i>Technical Slip</i>, +by John Beynon Harris / <i>The Last American</i>, by J. A. +Mitchell / <i>Full Circle</i>, by Vincent Starrett / <i>The +Realm of Redonda</i>, by August Derleth / “<i>Gougou</i>”, +by P. Schuyler Miller / <i>Characterization in Imaginative +Literature</i>, by Jack C. Miske / <i>Jamesian Spectres</i>, by +August Derleth / <i>Two Bibliographies</i>, by Everett +Bleiler / <i>The Devil and Miss Barker</i>, by Leah Bodine +Drake / <i>Christina</i>, by Joseph L. McNamara / <i>An +Arkham Quartet</i>, by Edward Wagenknecht / <i>Messrs. +Sturgeon, Williamson & DeCamp</i>, by August Derleth +/ <i>Short Notices</i> / <i>Editorial Commentary</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>The One Who Waits</i>, by Ray Bradbury / <i>In +the Year 2889</i>, by Jules Verne / <i>Hieroglyphics</i>, <i>Two +Horsemen</i>, by Vincent Starrett / <i>Journey to the World +Underground</i>, Part I, by Lewis Holberg / <i>Oblivion</i>, +by Jose-Maria de Heredia, translated by Clark Ashton +Smith / <i>Two Poems After Baudelaire</i> (<i>The Giantess</i>, +<i>Lethe</i>), by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>The Door</i>, by David +H. Keller / <i>The Derleth Science-Fiction Collection</i>, by +Everett F. Bleiler / <i>Ode to a Skylark</i>, by Robert Bloch +/ <i>More Caldecott</i>, by Edward Wagenknecht / <i>Poetry +of Immortality</i>, by John Haley / “<i>American Dreams</i>”<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxviii">[Pg xxxviii]</span> +<i>and Utopias</i>, by Everett F. Bleiler / <i>Salem Again</i>, by +Robert Bloch / <i>A Mixed Bag</i>, by August Derleth / +<i>Editorial Commentary</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>The Triumph of Death</i>, by H. Russell +Wakefield / <i>Calenture</i>, <i>Pour Chercher Du Nouveau</i>, +by Clark Ashton Smith / <i>Footnote to Dunne</i>, by Anthony +Boucher / <i>Journey to the World Underground</i>, +Part II, by Lewis Holberg / <i>The Death of Lovers</i>, by +Charles Baudelaire, translated by Clark Ashton Smith +/ <i>Escape</i>, by Thomas H. Carter / <i>Sidney Sime of +Worplesdon</i>, by Martin Gardner / <i>Nightmare</i>, by +Erasmus Darwin / <i>The Song of the Pewee</i>, by Stephen +Grendon / <i>A Little Anthology</i>, edited by Malcolm +Ferguson / <i>Abracadabra</i>, by Leah Bodine Drake / <i>The +Rape of Things to Come</i>, by Robert Bloch / <i>Perhaps +the Future</i>, by John Haley / <i>Nelson Bond’s New +Stories</i>, <i>A Selected Shelf of Fantasy</i>, by August Derleth +/ <i>Anthropology and Fiction</i>, by Everett F. Bleiler +/ <i>A Contrasting Duo</i>, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / <i>Two Views +of the Future</i>, by Frank Belknap Long / <i>Short Notices</i> +/ <i>Editorial Commentary</i> / <i>Index</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>A Prefatory Note</i>, by August +Derleth / <i>Something About Cats</i> / <i>The Invisible +Monster</i>, <i>Four O’Clock</i>, by Sonia H. Greene / <i>The</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxix">[Pg xxxix]</span> +<i>Horror in the Burying Ground</i>, by Hazel Heald / <i>The +Last Test</i>, <i>The Electric Executioner</i>, by Adolphe de +Castro / <i>Satan’s Servants</i>, by Robert Bloch / <i>The Despised +Pastoral</i> / <i>Time and Space</i> / <i>Merlinus Redivivus</i> +/ <i>At the Root</i> / <i>The Materialist Today</i> / <i>Vermont: +A First Impression</i> / <i>The Battle That Ended +the Century</i> / <i>Notes for “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”</i> +/ <i>Discarded Draught of “The Shadow Over +Innsmouth”</i>/ <i>Notes for “At the Mountains of Madness”</i> +/ <i>Notes for “The Shadow Out of Time”</i> / <i>Phaeton</i> +/ <i>August</i> / <i>Death</i> / <i>To the American Flag</i> / <i>To a +Youth</i> / <i>My Favorite Character</i> / <i>To Templeton and +Mount Monadnock</i> / <i>The House</i> / <i>The City</i> / <i>The +Poe-et’s Nightmare</i> / <i>Sir Thomas Tryout</i> / <i>Lament for +the Vanished Spider</i> / <i>Regnar Lodburg’s Epicedium</i> / +<i>A Memoir of Lovecraft</i>, by Rheinhart Kleiner / <i>Howard +Phillips Lovecraft</i>, by Samuel Loveman / <i>Lovecraft +as I Knew Him</i>, by Sonia H. Davis / <i>Lovecraft’s Sensitivity</i>, +<i>Lovecraft’s “Conservative”</i>, by August Derleth +/ <i>The Man Who Was Lovecraft</i>, by E. Hoffman Price +/ <i>A Literary Copernicus</i>, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / <i>Providence: +Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight</i>, by August +Derleth / <i>H. P. L.</i>, by Vincent Starrett.</p> + +<p>THE THRONE OF SATURN, by S. Fowler Wright. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 186. +$3.00. 3,062 copies printed. Contents: <i>Justice</i> / <i>This +Night</i> / <i>Brain</i> / <i>Appeal</i> / <i>Proof</i> / <i>P. N. 40</i> / <i>Automata</i> +/ <i>The Rat</i> / <i>Rule</i> / <i>Choice</i> / <i>The Temperature +of Gehenna Sue</i> / <i>Original Sin</i>.</p> + +<p>A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES, poems by Leah Bodine<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xl">[Pg xl]</span> +Drake. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, +1950. pp. 70. $2.10. 553 copies printed. Contents: +<i>A Hornbook for Witches</i> / <i>Unhappy Ending</i> / +<i>Witches on the Heath</i> / <i>The Tenants</i> / <i>The Ballad of +the Jabberwock</i> / <i>Bad Company</i> / <i>Mouse Heaven</i> / +<i>Rabbit-Dance</i> / <i>Wood-Wife</i> / <i>A Likely Story!</i> / <i>The +Man Who Married a Swan-Maiden</i> / <i>All-Saints’ Eve</i> +/ <i>The Last Faun</i> / <i>Changeling</i> / <i>In the Shadows</i> / +<i>Figures in a Nightmare</i> / <i>The Witch Walks in Her +Garden</i> / <i>The Seal-Woman’s Daughter</i> / <i>They Run +Again</i> / <i>The Path Through the Marsh</i> / <i>Old Wives’ +Tale</i> / <i>A Vase from Araby</i> / <i>The Fur Coat</i> / <i>House +Accurst</i> / <i>The Vision</i> / <i>Sea-Shell</i> / <i>Willow-Women</i> / +<i>The Girl in the Glass</i> / <i>Heard on the Roof at Midnight</i> +/ <i>Terror by Night</i> / <i>Legend</i> / <i>The Heads on +Easter Island</i> / <i>Haunted Hour</i> / <i>Goat-Song</i> / <i>The +Nixie’s Pool</i> / <i>The Stranger</i> / <i>Encounter in Broceliande</i> +/ <i>The Window on the Stair</i> / <i>The Old World +of Green</i> / <i>Curious Story</i> / <i>The Steps in the Field</i> / +<i>Midsummer Night</i> / <i>Old Daphne</i> / <i>Mad Woman’s +Song</i> / <i>Griffon’s Gold</i> / <i>Black Peacock</i> / <i>The Centaurs</i>.</p> + +<p>THE DARK CHATEAU, poems by Clark Ashton Smith. +Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1951. pp. 63. +$2.50. 563 copies printed. Contents: <i>Amithaine</i> / +<i>Seeker</i> / <i>The Dark Chateau</i> / <i>Lamia</i> / <i>Pour Chercher +du Nouveau</i> / “<i>O Golden-Tongued Romance</i>” / <i>Averoigne</i> +/ <i>Zothique</i> / <i>The Stylite</i> / <i>Dominium in Excelsis</i> +/ <i>Moly</i> / <i>Two Myths and a Fable</i> / <i>Eros of +Ebony</i> / <i>Shapes in the Sunset</i> / <i>Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch</i> +/ <i>Don Quixote on Market Street</i> / <i>Malediction<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xli">[Pg xli]</span></i> +/ <i>Hellenic Sequel</i> / <i>The Cypress</i> / <i>The Old +Water-Wheel</i> / <i>Calenture</i> / <i>Soliloquy in an Ebon +Tower</i> / <i>Sinbad, It Was Not Well to Brag</i> / <i>Sonnet +for the Psychoanalysts</i> / <i>Surréaliste Sonnet</i> / <i>The Twilight +of the Gods</i> / <i>The Poet Talks with the Biographers</i> +/ <i>Desert Dweller</i> / <i>Hesperian Fall</i> / “<i>Not Altogether +Sleep</i>” / <i>Some Blind Eidolon</i> / <i>The Isle of +Saturn</i> / <i>Oblivion</i> / <i>Revenant</i> / <i>In Slumber</i> / <i>Cambion</i> +/ <i>The Witch with Eyes of Amber</i> / <i>The Outer +Land</i> / <i>Luna Aeternalis</i> / <i>Ye Shall Return</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>Introduction</i> / <i>The Worm</i> / <i>The +Revolt of the Pedestrians</i> / <i>The Yeast Men</i> / <i>The Ivy +War</i> / <i>The Doorbell</i> / <i>The Flying Fool</i> / <i>The Psychophonic +Nurse</i> / <i>A Biological Experiment</i> / <i>Free as the +Air</i> / <i>The Bridle</i> / <i>Tiger Cat</i> / <i>The God Wheel</i> / <i>The +Golden Bough</i> / <i>The Jelly Fish</i> / <i>The Opium Eater</i> / +<i>The Thing in the Cellar</i> / <i>The Moon Artist</i> / <i>Creation +Unforgivable</i> / <i>The Dead Woman</i> / <i>The Door</i> / +<i>The Perfumed Garden</i> / <i>The Literary Corkscrew</i> / <i>A +Piece of Linoleum</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>Foreword</i> / +<i>Mr. George</i>, by Stephen Grendon / <i>The Loved Dead</i>, +by C. M. Eddy, Jr. / <i>The Sign</i>, by Lord Dunsany / <i>The +La Prello Paper</i>, by Carl Jacobi / <i>The Gorge of the</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xlii">[Pg xlii]</span> +<i>Churels</i>, by H. Russell Wakefield / <i>Dhoh</i>, by Manly +Wade Wellman / <i>The Churchyard Yew</i>, by J. Sheridan +Le Fanu / <i>Technical Slip</i>, by John Beynon Harris +/ <i>The Man Who Collected Poe</i>, by Robert Bloch / +<i>Hector</i>, by Michael West / <i>Roman Remains</i>, by Algernon +Blackwood / <i>A Damsel with a Dulcimer</i>, by +Malcolm Ferguson / <i>The Suppressed Edition</i>, by Richard +Curle / <i>The Lonesome Place</i>, by August Derleth / +<i>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward</i>, by H. P. Lovecraft.</p> + +<p>THE CURSE OF YIG, by Zealia B. Bishop. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1953. pp. 175. $3.00. +1,217 copies printed. Contents: <i>The Curse of Yig</i> / +<i>Medusa’s Coil</i> / <i>The Mound</i> / <i>H. P. Lovecraft: A +Pupil’s View</i> / <i>A Wisconsin Balzac: A Profile of +August Derleth</i>.</p> + +<p>THE FEASTING DEAD, by John Metcalfe. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954. pp. 123. $2.50. +1,242 copies printed.</p> + +<p>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: <i>The Survivor</i> / <i>Wentworth’s Day</i> / <i>The +Peabody Heritage</i> / <i>The Gable Window</i> / <i>The Ancestor</i> +/ <i>The Shadow out of Space</i> / <i>The Lamp of +Alhazred</i>.</p> + +<p>ALWAYS COMES EVENING, collected poems of +Robert E. Howard. Compiled by Glenn Lord. Arkham<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xliii">[Pg xliii]</span> +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1957. pp. x., 86. 636 +copies printed. Contents: <i>Foreword</i>, by Glenn Lord / +<i>Introduction</i>, by Dale Hart / <i>Always Comes Evening</i> +/ <i>The Poets</i> / <i>The Singer in the Mist</i> / <i>Solomon +Kane’s Homecoming</i> / <i>Futility</i> / <i>The Song of the +Bats</i> / <i>The Moor Ghost</i> / <i>Recompense</i> / <i>The Hills of +Kandahar</i> / <i>Which Will Scarcely Be Understood</i> / +<i>Haunting Columns</i> / <i>The Last Hour</i> / <i>Ships</i> / <i>The +King and the Oak</i> / <i>The Riders of Babylon</i> / <i>Easter +Island</i> / <i>Moon Mockery</i> / <i>Shadows on the Road</i> / <i>The +Soul-Eater</i> / <i>The Dream and the Shadow</i> / <i>The Ghost +Kings</i> / <i>Desert Dawn</i> / <i>An Open Window</i> / <i>The +Song of a Mad Minstrel</i> / <i>The Gates of Nineveh</i> / +<i>Fragment</i> / <i>The Harp of Alfred</i> / <i>Remembrance</i> / +<i>Crete</i> / <i>Forbidden Magic</i> / <i>Black Chant Imperial</i> / <i>A +Song out of Midian</i> / <i>Arkham</i> / <i>Voices of the Night</i> +/ <i>Song at Midnight</i> / <i>The Ride of Falume</i> / <i>Autumn</i> +/ <i>Dead Man’s Hate</i> / <i>One Who Comes at Eventide</i> / +<i>To a Woman</i> / <i>Emancipation</i> / <i>Retribution</i> / <i>Chant +of the White Beard</i> / <i>Rune</i> / <i>The Road of Azrael</i> / +<i>Song of the Pict</i> / <i>Prince and Beggar</i> / <i>Hymn of Hatred</i> +/ <i>Invective</i> / <i>Men of the Shadows</i> / <i>Babylon</i> / +<i>Niflheim</i> / <i>The Heart of the Sea’s Desire</i> / <i>Laughter +in the Gulfs</i> / <i>A Song of the Don Cossacks</i> / <i>The +Gods of Easter Island</i> / <i>Nisapur</i> / <i>Moon Shame</i> / <i>The +Tempter</i> / <i>Lines Written in the Realization That I +Must Die</i> / <i>Chapter Headings</i>.</p> + +<p>SPELLS AND PHILTRES, poems by Clark Ashton +Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1958. +pp. 54. $3.00. 519 copies printed. Contents: <i>Dedication</i> +/ <i>Didus Ineptus</i> / <i>Thebaid</i> / <i>Secret Love</i> / <i>The</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xliv">[Pg xliv]</span> +<i>Pagan</i> / <i>Tired Gardener</i> / <i>Nada</i> / <i>High Surf</i> / <i>The +Centaur</i> / <i>Said the Dreamer</i> / <i>The Nameless Wraith</i> +/ <i>The Blindness of Orion</i> / <i>Jungle Twilight</i> / <i>The +Phoenix</i> / <i>The Prophet Speaks</i> / <i>Farewell to Eros</i> / +<i>Alternative</i> / <i>Only to One Returned</i> / <i>Anteros</i> / <i>No +Stranger Dream</i> / <i>Do You Forget, Enchantress?</i> / +<i>Necromancy</i> / <i>Dialogue</i> / <i>October</i> / <i>Dominion</i> / <i>Tolometh</i> +/ <i>Disillusionment</i> / <i>Almost Anything</i> / <i>Parnassus +a la Mode</i> / <i>Fence and Wall</i> / <i>Growth of +Lichen</i> / <i>Cats in Winter Sunlight</i> / <i>Abandoned Plum-Orchard</i> +/ <i>Harvest Evening</i> / <i>Willow-Cutting in Autumn</i> +/ <i>Late Pear-Pruner</i> / <i>Geese in the Spring Night</i> +/ <i>The Sparrow’s Nest</i> / <i>The Last Apricot</i> / <i>Unicorn</i> +/ <i>Untold Arabian Fable</i> / <i>A Hunter Meets the Martichoras</i> +/ <i>The Sciapod</i> / <i>The Monacle</i> / <i>Feast of St. +Anthony</i> / <i>Paphnutius</i> / <i>Philter</i> / <i>Perseus and Medusa</i> +/ <i>Essence</i> / <i>Passing of an Elder God</i> / <i>Nightmare +of the Lilliputian</i> / <i>Mithridates</i> / <i>Quiddity</i> / +<i>“That Motley Drama”</i> (from Clérigo Herrero) / <i>Rimas +XXXIII</i> (from Gustavo Adolfo Bequer) / <i>Ecclesiastes</i> +(from Leconte de Lisle) / <i>Anterior Life</i> +(from Charles Baudelaire) / <i>Song of Autumn</i> (from +Charles Baudelaire) / <i>Lethe</i> (from Charles Baudelaire) +/ <i>The Metamorphoses of the Vampire</i> (from +Charles Baudelaire) / <i>Epigrams and Apothegms</i>.</p> + +<p>THE MASK OF CTHULHU, by August Derleth. Arkham +House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. 201. +$3.50. 2,051 copies printed. Contents: <i>Introduction</i> / +<i>The Return of Hastur</i> / <i>The Whippoorwills in the +Hills</i> / <i>Something in Wood</i> / <i>The Sandwin Compact</i> +/ <i>The House in the Valley</i> / <i>The Seal of R’lyeh</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xlv">[Pg xlv]</span></p> + +<p>NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM, by Joseph Payne +Brennan. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1958. +pp. 120. $3.00. 1,336 copies printed. Contents: <i>Slime</i> +/ <i>Levitation</i> / <i>The Calamander Chest</i> / <i>Death in Peru</i> +/ <i>On the Elevator</i> / <i>The Green Parrot</i> / <i>Canavan’s +Back Yard</i> / <i>I’m Murdering Mr. Massington</i> / <i>The +Hunt</i> / <i>The Mail for Juniper Hill</i>.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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: +<i>The Myths</i> / <i>The Unfinished Manuscripts</i> / <i>The +Writing Habits</i> / <i>The Barlow Journal</i> / <i>H. P. Lovecraft: +Four Letters</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>The Shuttered Room</i>, by H. +P. Lovecraft and August Derleth / <i>The Fisherman of +Falcon Point</i>, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth +/ Juvenilia, by H. P. Lovecraft—<i>The Alchemist</i>, <i>The +Street</i> / <i>Old Bugs</i>, by H. P. Lovecraft / <i>The Commonplace +Book</i>, by H. P. Lovecraft, annotated by August +Derleth / <i>Lovecraft’s First Book</i>, by William L. Crawford +/ <i>Memories of a Friendship</i>, by Alfred Galpin / +<i>Out of the Ivory Tower</i>, by Robert Bloch / <i>H. P. Lovecraft: +The Books</i>, by Lin Carter / <i>H. P. Lovecraft: The</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xlvi">[Pg xlvi]</span> +<i>Gods</i>, by Lin Carter / <i>Homage to H. P. Lovecraft</i>, by +Felix Stefanile / <i>Three Hours with H. P. Lovecraft</i>, by +Dorothy C. Walker / <i>Lines to H. P. Lovecraft</i>, by +Joseph Payne Brennan / <i>Revenants</i>, by August Derleth +/ <i>Lovecraft in Providence</i>, by Donald Wandrei / <i>Lovecraft +as Mentor</i>, by August Derleth / <i>Bibliography of +the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft</i>, by George T. Wetzel +/ <i>The Shadow Over Innsmouth</i>, by H. P. Lovecraft, +with the original illustrations by Frank Utpatel / <i>The +Strange High House in the Mist</i>, by H. P. Lovecraft / +together with other reprints and photographs.</p> +</div> + + +<p class="c sp sans xlarge">Associated Imprints</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>“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: <i>In Re: Solar Pons</i>, by Vincent +Starrett / <i>A Word from Dr. Lyndon Parker</i> / +<i>The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Late Mr. Faversham</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Black Narcissus</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Norcross +Riddle</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Retired Novelist</i> +/ <i>The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Sotheby Salesman</i> / <i>The Adventure of +the Purloined Periapt</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Limping +Man</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Seven Passengers</i> / +<i>The Adventure of the Lost Holiday</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Man with the Broken Face</i>.</p> + +<p>CARNACKI, THE GHOST-FINDER, by William Hope +Hodgson. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, +1947. pp. 241. $3.00. 3,050 copies printed. Contents:<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xlvii">[Pg xlvii]</span> +<i>The Thing Invisible</i> / <i>The Gateway of the Monster</i> / +<i>The House Among the Laurels</i> / <i>The Whistling Room</i> +/ <i>The Searcher of the End House</i> / <i>The Horse of the +Invisible</i> / <i>The Haunted “Jarvee”</i> / <i>The Find</i> / <i>The +Hog</i>.</p> + +<p>THE MEMOIRS OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth. +Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1951. pp. +xxii., 245. $3.00. 2,038 copies printed. Contents: <i>Introduction</i>, +by Ellery Queen / <i>The Adventure of the +Circular Room</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Perfect Husband</i> +/ <i>The Adventure of the Broken Chessman</i> / <i>The +Adventure of the Dog in the Manger</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Proper Comma</i> / <i>The Adventure of Ricoletti +of the Club Foot</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Six +Silver Spiders</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive</i> +/ <i>The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf</i> / <i>The +Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Paralytic Mendicant</i>.</p> + +<p>THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS, by August +Derleth. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, +1952. pp. vii., 112. $2.50. 996 copies printed. Contents: +<i>A Note for the Aficionado</i> / <i>The Adventure of +the Rydberg Numbers</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Remarkable +Worm</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Camberwell +Beauty</i>.</p> + +<p>THE RETURN OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth. +Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. +xiii., 261. $4.00. 2,079 copies printed. Contents: <i>Introduction</i>, +by Edgar W. Smith / <i>The Adventure of +the Lost Dutchman</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Devil’s</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xlviii">[Pg xlviii]</span> +<i>Footprints</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance</i> +/ <i>The Adventure of the “Triple Kent”</i> / +<i>The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Grice-Paterson Curse</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Stone of Scone</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Remarkable +Worm</i> / <i>The Adventure of the Penny Magenta</i> +/ <i>The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant</i> / +<i>The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty</i> / <i>The Adventure +of the Little Hangman</i> / <i>The Adventure of +the Swedenborg Signatures</i>.</p> + +<p>BILL’S DIARY, by Dwig (Clare Victor Dwiggins). +Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xx., +288. $2.00. 2,002 copies printed. Contents: <i>Dwig—and +Bill</i>, <i>Eternal Boy</i>, by August Derleth / <i>Bill’s +Diary</i> (cartoons) / <i>Night-Haunt</i>, <i>Spring Rain</i>, <i>Woods +Music</i>, <i>Leaf Burning Time</i>, <i>Snow</i>, by August Derleth.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Foreword</i>.</p> + +<p>OLIVER, THE WAYWARD OWL, by August Derleth. +Illustrations by Dwig. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, +1945. pp. 84. $1.50. 3,089 copies printed.</p> + +<p>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. <i>The Ambush</i> / +<i>Houseboat</i> / <i>Screech Owls</i> / <i>Fox and Hounds</i> / <i>Down +to the Sea in Ships</i> / <i>Rowing at Night</i> / <i>Jew’s Harp +Music</i> / <i>My Dog Spot</i> / <i>Bullheading</i> / <i>Smokewood</i> /<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xlix">[Pg xlix]</span> +<i>Book Review</i> / <i>Spring</i> / <i>First Kiss</i> / <i>Whistling in the +Dark</i> / <i>Spring Fever</i> / <i>Sunfishing</i> / <i>Haunted House</i> / +<i>The Collectors</i> / <i>Timber!</i> / <i>Doughnuts</i> / <i>Woods at +Night</i> / <i>The Old Frog Pond</i> / <i>The Stereopticon in +Grandma’s Parlor</i> / <i>Nighthawk</i> / <i>The Recital</i> / <i>The +Lamp</i> / <i>Night Mail</i> / <i>Firebell in the Night</i> / <i>Turtling</i> +/ <i>The Piano Lesson</i> / <i>Fish Rising</i> / <i>Rain on the Attic +Roof</i> / <i>The Day after the Circus</i> / <i>Moonrise</i> / +<i>Clouds</i> / <i>Night Train</i> / <i>The Scissors-Grinder</i> / <i>Dwellers +in the Dark</i> / <i>Box-Social</i> / <i>Treasure</i> / <i>Playing at +Dusk</i> / <i>New Moon</i> / <i>Horsehair Chair</i> / <i>Damming +the Brook</i> / <i>Hallowe’en</i> / <i>Leaf-Burning</i> / <i>O Ye of +Little Faith!</i> / <i>Nutting</i> / <i>Ice Skating</i> / <i>Sherlock +Holmes</i> / <i>Hawk</i>.</p> + +<p>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: <i>Shadow +of Night</i> / <i>Place of Hawks</i> (<i>Five Alone</i>, <i>Farway +House</i>, <i>Nine Strands in a Web</i>, <i>Place of Hawks</i>) / +<i>Village Year: A Sac Prairie Journal</i>.</p> + +<p>SAC PRAIRIE PEOPLE, by August Derleth. Stanton & +Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 322. $3.00. 2,131 +copies printed. Contents: <i>Kleine Nachtmusik</i> / <i>Expedition +to the North</i> / <i>Ellie Butts</i> / <i>A Little Quiet in +the Evening</i> / <i>McCrary’s Wife</i> / <i>The Sisters</i> / <i>Moonlight +in the Apple Tree</i> / <i>Valse Oubliée</i> / <i>Where the</i><span class="pagenum" id="Page_l">[Pg l]</span> +<i>Worm Dieth Not</i> / <i>Now Is the Time for All Good +Men</i> / <i>Nella</i> / <i>The Night Light at Vorden’s</i> / <i>Aunt +May and the Refugees</i> / <i>Stuff of Dream</i> / <i>Rendezvous</i> +/ <i>The Lost Kiss</i> / <i>“That Feller Oates”</i> / <i>One Against +the Dead</i> / <i>Light Again</i> / <i>I Was Walking Helen +Home</i>.</p> + +<p>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: +<i>First Crocus</i> / <i>The Bobbing Cork</i> / <i>Streetlight +Shadows</i> / <i>The Locomotive Engineer</i> / <i>The Customer</i> +/ <i>The Raft</i> / <i>The Millpond Terror</i> / <i>School Play</i> / +<i>Roller-Skating</i> / <i>Tadpoles</i> / <i>The Bat</i> / <i>The Old +Swimming Hole</i> / <i>Haying</i> / <i>My Owl</i> / <i>Peewee’s Ride</i> +/ <i>The Cabin in the Woods</i> / <i>The Old Covered Bridge</i> +/ <i>The Baseball Game</i> / <i>The Belfry</i> / <i>The Unexplored +Island</i> / <i>The Soap-Coupon Telescope</i> / <i>The Waterfall</i> +/ <i>Glowworms</i> / <i>Heaven’s Gate</i> / <i>Old Speck</i> / <i>Potato +Bugs and Weeds</i> / <i>The Hanging Tree</i> / <i>Dogs Barking</i> +/ <i>The Long Trail</i> / <i>The Cellar Dweller</i> / <i>Otter</i> / +<i>The Wind in the Leaves</i> / <i>Acorns on the Roof</i> / <i>The +Sparrow in the Willows</i> / <i>Cornshocks</i> / <i>Elderberry +Syrup</i> / <i>Pumpkin Faces</i> / <i>Deer</i> / <i>Torch Signals</i> / +<i>Leaf-Painter</i> / <i>Bonfire in the Woods</i> / <i>Witch Hazel +on Hallowe’en</i> / <i>The Dance</i> / <i>Snowstorm</i> / <i>Bob-Sledding</i> +/ <i>The Long Ride</i> / <i>The Harness Shop</i> / +<i>Drying Hickory Nuts</i> / <i>The Mystery Picture at the +Old Electric</i> / <i>The Caboose on the Train</i>.</p> + +<p>BRIGHT JOURNEY, by August Derleth. A reprint of +the Charles Scribner’s Sons edition of 1940. pp. 424<span class="pagenum" id="Page_li">[Pg li]</span> +$3.50. Title page unchanged. 1,021 copies printed, +1953. 1,567 copies reprinted 1955.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>WILBUR, THE TRUSTING WHIPPOORWILL, by +August Derleth. Illustrations by Dwig. Stanton & +Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin. 990 copies printed, 1959. +pp. 64. $2.00.</p> +</div> +<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_lii">[Pg lii]</span></p> + +<p class="ph2">Addenda</p> +</div> + + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>DARK ODYSSEY, poems by Donald Wandrei.</p> + +<p>SLEEP NO MORE, edited by August Derleth.</p> + +<p>WHO KNOCKS?, edited by August Derleth.</p> + +<p>BEST SUPERNATURAL STORIES OF H. P. LOVECRAFT, +edited by August Derleth.</p> + +<p>THE NIGHT SIDE, edited by August Derleth.</p> + +<p>THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD, edited by August +Derleth.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_liii">[Pg liii]</span></p> + +<p>STRANGE PORTS OF CALL, edited by August Derleth.</p> + +<p>H. P. L.: A MEMOIR, by August Derleth.</p> + +<p>SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE, by +H. P. Lovecraft.</p> + +<p>WORLDS OF TOMORROW, edited by August Derleth.</p> + +<p>BEYOND TIME AND SPACE, edited by August +Derleth.</p> + +<p>THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON, edited by August +Derleth.</p> + +<p>FAR BOUNDARIES, edited by August Derleth.</p> +</div> + +<p>As of July 1, 1959, these Arkham House titles are out +of print or removed from catalogue listing:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS, by H. P. Lovecraft</p> + +<p>SOMEONE IN THE DARK, by August Derleth</p> + +<p>OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, by Clark Ashton Smith</p> + +<p>BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP, BY H. P. Lovecraft</p> + +<p>THE EYE AND THE FINGER, by Donald Wandrei</p> + +<p>JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES, by +Henry S. Whitehead</p> + +<p>LOST WORLDS, by Clark Ashton Smith</p> + +<p>MARGINALIA, by H. P. Lovecraft</p> + +<p>SLAN, by A. E. Van Vogt</p> + +<p>THE OPENER OF THE WAY, by Robert Bloch</p> + +<p>SOMETHING NEAR, by August Derleth</p> + +<p>GREEN TEA AND OTHER STORIES, by J. Sheridan +Le Fanu</p> + +<p>THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD, by H. P. +Lovecraft and August Derleth</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_liv">[Pg liv]</span></p> + +<p>DARK CARNIVAL, by Ray Bradbury</p> + +<p>A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES, by Leah Bodine +Drake</p> + +<p>THE ARKHAM SAMPLER: 1948</p> + +<p>THE ARKHAM SAMPLER: 1949</p> + +<p>THE DARK CHATEAU, by Clark Ashton Smith</p> + +<p>THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap +Long</p> + +<p>THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS, by August +Derleth</p> +</div> + +<hr class="full"> + +<div class="transnote"> + +<p class="c">Transcriber’s Notes:</p> + +<p>Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.</p> + +<p>Perceived typographical errors have been changed.</p> + +</div> + +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76245 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/76245-h/images/cover.jpg b/76245-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..68eb440 --- /dev/null +++ b/76245-h/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5dba15 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This book, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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