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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> + |