Arkham House
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Arkham House is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House published the first hardback collections of H. P. Lovecraft's work. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional city Arkham.
In addition to volumes of Lovecraft's fiction, Arkham House published collections of his letters to peers, friends and family. Among his correspondents were Arkham House founders, Derleth and Wandrei.
Arkham House also published fiction from several of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley.
After Derleth's death, his successors expanded the company's range of authors to include such prominent science fiction and fantasy writers as Michael Bishop, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling, James Tiptree Jr., and J. G. Ballard, often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works.
External link
- Arkham House Publishers (http://www.arkhamhouse.com/)
- A facsimile reprint of the 1948 Arkham House edition of "Roads" (http://www.redjacketpress.com/books/roads.html) by Seabury Quinn