We are a publishing business that specializes in weird fiction / pulp / horror hard cover titles. Derleth wrote in 1970, "[T]he fact is that in no single year since its founding have the earnings of Arkham House met the expenses, so that it has been necessary for my personal earnings to shore up Arkham House finances." Among his correspondents were Arkham House founders, Derleth and Wandrei. Coppard, H. Russell Wakefield, William Hope Hodgson and Algernon Blackwood followed in 1947. Derleth propped up the business with his personal earnings throughout the years, and continued to oversee publication of science fiction, fantasy, and macabre literature until his death in 1971. In recent years, Ive noticed that the amount of their publications had dropped dramatically since the 80s/90s (when I used to order from them). [6][7][8][9][10] The publisher's website announced in April 2011 that her children would take over the running of the firm. There's much reluctance in his decision as he fears that . "Though it was not immediately foreseen, Arkham House had its inception in the death of Howard Phillips Lovecraft on March 15, 1937". Payment in U.S. dollars may be made with cash; bank check or cashier's check drawn on a . The architecture is still oppressive, and the better-known inmates seem to enjoy making life hell for each other, but it is shown to have some good doctors, who have some sadly temporary success with Harvey Dent, Harley Quinn and Edward Nygma. UPDATED: As of three weeks ago, Danielle Hackett (co-owner/publisher) was notified about the website being down and let folks know that they're looking into the matter. [6] (Danvers State Hospital itself appears in Lovecraft's stories "Pickman's Model" and The Shadow over Innsmouth. This was undoubtedly one of several Hodgson manuscripts submitted to Arkham by his estate for publication. 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Additionally, during this time, two books were published under Derleth's Mycroft & Moran imprint, and seven books were published under his Stanton & Lee imprint. Arkham himself was slowly driven insane shortly following the grisly murder of his wife and child by a lunatic named Martin "Mad Dog" Hawkins. FINE book in FINE DJ. Become a member for $9/month. Robert Bloch, one of Derleths colleagues and a future Arkham House author, first encountered Weird Tales as a young boy at the Northwest Railroad Station in Chicago when his aunt offered to buy him a magazine to read on a train trip. Still down today, 10/31/22. There are now multiple printings and/or alternate editions of over 20 individual Arkham House titles. A few months ago I had been on their website and it was up and running. Instead of reading, however, I sat at a railroad trestle beside a brook and thought of how Lovecrafts best stories could be published in book form, Derleth later recalled in the introduction to his retrospective book Thirty Years of Arkham House. Ditch the ads, get free stuff. But Derleth's perseverance ultimately brought new, fresh literary talent into the Arkham House tent (including Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley and Basil Copper) and he managed to continue publishing the work of the older writers as well (including H. Russell Wakefield, John Metcalfe, Frank Belknap Long and Clark Ashton Smith). Despite the talented authors whose stories they printed, the exceptional quality of the printing and binding, and the risk they undertook in printing some of the earliest science fiction as hardcover novels, Arkham House was not fiscally sound. The Travelling Grave and Other Stories. A couple of days ago I had tried to visit their website and it said "This website is unavailable." Blochs favorite Weird Tales writer was a man relatively unknown outside of the magazines readership: Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Books shelved as arkham_house-own: The Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories by H. Russell Wakefield, Skull-Face and Others by Robert E. Howard, Acque p. I had assumed that perhaps it was due to website maintenance, but everyday I have tried to visit it and it still says it's unavailable. The actual location of Arkham is a subject of debate. There are times when I am certain that all good writers should be castrated and chained to their typewriters, it would be much simpler.. In late 1937, after Lovecraft's death, Derleth and Wandrei sought to produce a collection of their friend's best weird fiction from the pulp magazines into a memorial volume. -- HARTLEY, L.P. I hope Damon and Danielle, are able to keep things going, and retain the home Its quite a legacy to maintain. PRESERVING THE LOVECRAFT LEGACY AND NOTABLE FINDS. Derleth revealed to Keller and Moskowitz that he owed his printer $2500 and had exhausted every possible source of help. Oct. 31 The Call of Cthulhu was first published in Weird Tales in 1928, but it was not Lovecrafts first published work. Weird Tales was founded in 1923 and ran for 279 horror-filled issues before folding in 1954. Bloch sold his first story The Secret of the Tomb to Weird Tales in 1934. In the years since, Derleths impact on the sci-fi and fantasy genre has gone largely unrecognized, according to his son. Much of Lovecrafts work was dubbed by Derleth as the Cthluhu Mythos, a series of connected storylines where curious minded explorers uncover godlike beings known as the Ancient Ones, like the squid-faced, bat-winged Cthulhu, or the space entity Yog-Sothoth, depicted as a mass of tentacles and glowing spheres. Derleth began speaking to Howards brother Donald Wandrei, who was living in Saint Paul, Minnesota, about collecting Lovecrafts stories into a book format. Need to report an error? Have questions? One of the most important twentieth century small publisher's archives offered for sale in the last several decades. Derleth "possessed exceptional critical acumen backed by prodigious knowledge of supernatural literature. Although suffering from reduced profit margins, high production costs, and competition from other genre publishers, Derleth resumed a vigorous publishing schedule in 1960. An integral part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham is featured in many of his stories and those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers. Experience two of the most critically acclaimed titles of the last generation - Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, with fully remastered and updated visuals. On one such trip, he and Derleth discussed subsidizing a trip for Lovecraft to come visit Wisconsin over the summer. Derleth's support of younger writers during this period was his last significant contribution to the genre. A more recent mapping of Lovecraft Country reinforces this suggestion,[citation needed] with Arkham being situated close to the location of Gordon College; in Lovecraft's work this would presumably be replaced by Miskatonic University itself. If you are an existing member, sign-in to leave a comment. Very rare Set, not available in stores anymore. Find a arkham on Gumtree, the #1 site for Stuff for Sale classifieds ads in the UK. Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their . After a long slow period, Arkham House entered the 1970s with ambitious publishing plans. According to Mr. Rajchel who preserved these papers: "there were boxes of financial records in the basement. Derleth "deserves credit not only for preserving Lovecraft, but for popularizing him -- and for rescuing a host of other WEIRD TALES writers from oblivion. These stories now make up the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, but at the time Derleth began his career writing for the pulp magazines, they were often lumped together in one category: weird fiction.. -5th cousin to Damon and Danielle Derleth and Wandrei were determined to have the book, which they titled The Outsider and Others, see print. The David Rajchel Arkham House Arkham House Archive documents extensively Derleth's work as a writer, editor, and publisher. In addition to volumes of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction, Arkham House began to publish a five volume edition of Lovecraft's Selected Letters which had been planned from the very start of the company, and which gives an overview of Lovecraft's correspondence to peers, friends and family. I never knew about these Wisconsin connections to famous authors! In a few days, their website will have been offline for a full month. 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of Arkham Houses founding, and while the company is still largely unrecognized, it is still offering an outlet for the publication of weird fiction. In 2009, Arkham House teamed up with Canadian publisher George Vanderburgh and his imprint Battered Silicon Dispatch Box to publish a four-volume book set titled The Macabre Quarto in 2009, celebrating what would have been Derleths 100thbirthday. Over the years, they also published many of Lovecrafts abridged correspondence to friends and family. 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