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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 *** |