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not lack publicity; our venture was given generous space in the _Publishers’ Weekly_ and other trade media, though it was so thoroughly ignored locally that even today, after two decades, not one in fifty persons in Sauk City and the area of the village could identify Arkham House if asked to do so by an outsider.

_The Outsider and Others_ sold with discouraging slowness. Nevertheless, it seemed to me, judging by the enthusiasm shown by buyers, that there might be a market for small editions of books in the general field of fantasy, perhaps with emphasis on the macabre or science-fiction. To that end, I prepared early in 1941 a slender collection of my own best stories in the genre and submitted them, according to my contractual obligations, to Charles Scribner’s Sons. Up to this time there had been no thought of publishing through Arkham House the work of anyone but H. P. Lovecraft; it remained for William C. Weber of Scribner’s to suggest that my collection, _Someone in the Dark_, ought properly to be published under the Arkham House imprint, since a specialized house could very probably do better with such a book than could Scribner’s.

After much soul-searching, I took Weber’s advice, and brought out _Someone in the Dark_ at $2.00 the copy. This had the additional effect of keeping the Arkham House imprint before the public eye while other Lovecraft works were in preparation. When the initial costs of the second Arkham House book were met before those of _The Outsider and Others_, I began to explore the possibility of publishing further books in the field. Despite the fact that because of his induction into the U. S. Army, where he served four years, Donald Wandrei was forced to sever all but the most cursory connection with Arkham House in 1942, that year saw publication of the third Arkham House title, Clark Ashton Smith’s _Out of Space and Time_, at $3.00 the copy.

The three-dollar price seemed to be the most satisfactory one; the publishers could honestly show that $2.00 was too little, and readers had complained that $5.00 was too much for a book in 1939--though some of those same plaintiffs, having refused _The Outsider and Others_ at $5.00, paid $25.00 and $35.00 for it ten years later, even $50.00 and $65.00. Yet the $5.00 price had to be maintained for the omnibus collections, and in 1943 the second Lovecraft omnibus, _Beyond the Wall of Sleep_, was published in an edition limited by wartime restrictions to but 1,217 copies.

The first quartet of books to bear the imprint of Arkham House--published from 1939 to 1944--though getting off to a slow selling start with the initial Lovecraft title, had by the end of 1943 gained such momentum that it was obvious that few if any of these books would be left for sale by the end of 1944. _The Outsider and Others_ took four years to sell out its only printing, and actually, what with overhead and other costs, it took approximately that long to return our initial investment. But by 1944 it was manifest that there was a distinct--if relatively small--market for collections of weird, fantastic, science-fiction short stories, and I determined to publish as many such collections as possible, with emphasis on the hitherto unpublished, but not scorning works long out of print.

Pushing ahead, I commissioned Frank Utpatel, the Wisconsin artist who had done the illustrations for Lovecraft’s _The Shadow Over Innsmouth_ in 1936, to design a house colophon. This made its first appearance in our next book, Donald Wandrei’s _The Eye and the Finger_. In addition to this title, three other Arkham House titles appeared in 1944; they were Henry S. Whitehead’s _Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales_; Clark Ashton Smith’s _Lost Worlds_, and _Marginalia_, by H. P. Lovecraft, with contributions by others. By the end of 1945, the Arkham House list had been augmented by the addition of my own Something Near; Robert Bloch’s _The Opener of the Way_; the first Arkham House fantasy novel, Evangeline Walton’s _Witch House_; J. Sheridan LeFanu’s _Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories_; and _The Lurker at the Threshold_, a novel suggested in notes and fragments written by Lovecraft, finished by myself.

The year 1945 was also the year in which Arkham House introduced two allied imprints--Mycroft & Moran, specializing in off-trail sleuthing tales, the first of which was my own _“In Re: Sherlock Holmes”--The Adventures of Solar Pons_, a collection of pastiches of Sherlock Holmes published at the urging of Vincent Starrett, who wrote the introduction for the volume, and Ellery Queen, who was to write the introduction for the later _The Memoirs of Solar Pons_; and Stanton & Lee, which concentrated on reprints or on collections of comic cartoons, principally those by the late Clare Victor Dwiggins, and which made its bow with Dwig’s _Bill’s Diary_, the Derleth-Dwig juvenile for pixilated adults, _Oliver_, _the Wayward Owl_, and a new printing of my Scribner novel, _Evening in Spring_, from the Scribner plates. The Mycroft & Moran imprint came straight out of the Holmes canon--from Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s illustrious brother, and Colonel Sebastian Moran, the second most dangerous man in London. The house colophon was designed as a deerstalker by Ronald Clyne. Stanton & Lee took rise from the names of two friends, one an employee; its colophons were designed by Howard Wandrei--which appeared only in _Evening in Spring_--and by Ronald Clyne.

Publication of the initial LeFanu collection, of stories long out of print in America, marked the beginning of Arkham House’s importation of titles from abroad. Since many of the best writers in the genre were British, it seemed to me necessary to add to our list such names as would bring prestige to the Arkham House imprint. Thus, the year 1946 witnessed publication of four British importations--Algernon Blackwood’s last book of new work, _The Doll and One Other_; A. E. Coppard’s _Fearful Pleasures_; H. Russell Wakefield’s _The Clock Strikes Twelve_, and an omnibus reprint of four novels--William Hope Hodgson’s _The House on the Borderland and Other Novels_; as well as three books by members of the Lovecraft circle of writers who, like him, contributed primarily to _Weird Tales_ in earlier years--Frank Belknap Long’s _The Hounds of Tindalos_; Robert E. Howard’s _Skull-Face and Others_; and Henry S. Whitehead’s _West India Lights_, together with the first Arkham House science-fiction novel, the popular _Astounding Science-Fiction_ serial, _Slan_, by A. E. Van Vogt.

The year 1946 was in a sense a year of publishing instruction. It was not until that year, for example, that I finally learned what the average size of a printing ought to be--not 4,000, which some of our books had run, but 2,000, with occasional printings of up to 3,000. By that year the limited space in my home was being taken up by Arkham House stock, despite the fact that books sold rapidly. The experiences of that year also demonstrated conclusively that a small publishing business like Arkham House could afford very little overhead. Indeed, had it not been for the pouring into Arkham House of $25,000 of personal income from my writing over the first ten years, the House could not have survived. I had come to publishing without any previous experience, other than a limited editorial stint with Fawcett Publications, with which I had been associated briefly in 1930-31; and I had to learn step by step, often painfully, invariably expensively. In 1946, production costs had begun to rise also, still further cutting into any possible profit margin, since the price of Arkham House books remained fixed.

Nevertheless, despite increased costs of publication, Arkham House in 1947 released Lady Cynthia Asquith’s _This Mortal Coil_; Ray Bradbury’s first distinguished collection, _Dark Carnival_ (later revised and issued under the Ballantine imprint as _The October Country_); Carl Jacobi’s _Revelations in Black_; my own anthology of fantastic and macabre poetry, _Dark of the Moon_; Fritz Leiber Jr.’s _Night’s Black Agents_; and, under the Mycroft & Moran imprint, William Hope Hodgson’s _Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder_, a far more comprehensive collection than the British edition of almost forty years before, since it contained three new stories, two never before printed, discovered among Hodgson’s manuscripts by his sister.

In 1948, in addition to the publication of five titles, Arkham House brought out its only illustrated book, Seabury Quinn’s _Roads_, with pictures by Virgil Finlay, and inaugurated the publication of a literary quarterly, _The Arkham Sampler_, devoted to matters fantastic, publishing fiction, poetry, letters, articles, bibliographical data, _et alia_, to sell at $1.00 the copy. This venture, however, was ill-fated; it was begun in a falling market and at a time of greatly increased production costs, and, while the subscription to the first four issues readily met costs, that for the second year, 1949, failed to do so, and the magazine--which was taking an inexcusably large amount of the editor-publisher’s time--was reluctantly discontinued, since Arkham House could not publish it at a loss of both time and money.

The close of the first decade of publishing saw a substantial number of Arkham House titles out of print--_The Outsider and Others_, _Someone in the Dark_, _Out of Space and Time_, _Beyond the Wall of Sleep_, _The Eye and the Finger_, _Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales_, _Lost Worlds_, _Marginalia_, _Something Near_, _The Opener of the Way_, _Slan_, _Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories_--and selling for fantastic prices in the out-of-print shops. Recent titles had doubled in value, and the rare first Arkham House book had been reported as sold at $100.00 for a pristine copy. In addition, adjunctive books prepared by the editor for release under the Rinehart imprint out of New York--anthologies like _Sleep No More_, _Who Knocks?_ and _The Night Side_--were likewise out of print, and others, prepared for Pellegrini & Cudahy, were being reprinted--_The Sleeping and the Dead_, _Strange Ports of Call_, _The Other Side of the Moon_. Most significant of all, by 1950 almost a dozen other small houses had mushroomed into existence to follow the lead of Arkham House, and several major publishing houses were bringing out science-fiction.

Nevertheless, it was evident that the crest of the wave of interest in fantasy had been reached, and that the recession was certain to follow. Arkham House therefore prepared, after but two books in 1949, to hedge the ambitious program announced in that year. A cautious, if predominantly optimistic conservatism prevailed; had it been otherwise, Arkham House would certainly have shared the fate of most of its imitators, which, lacking any real editorial guidance from people widely-read in the field, spewed forth many books of no merit whatsoever, cluttered the market, and succeeded in turning away potential buyers from the field in general.

When, in the mid-fifties, Arkham House began to resume a publishing schedule, production costs were so high that the price range could no longer be held. The entry of competitive publishers in the genre had had one other unhappy effect which directly influenced the decision in regard to prices--whereas, heretofore, between 400 and 600 patrons of Arkham House sent in prepaid orders for each announced title, thus enabling Arkham House to meet printer’s bills within a reasonable time and assure the continuance of a publishing program, such advance-order patrons had now been reduced to between 100 and 200, not enough to give permanence to any program. A disproportionate share of sales was now being made through the trade which, however welcome, meant the introduction of middlemen--wholesalers and retailers--into what had been primarily a publisher-reader mail order operation. This resulted in a vital slashing of potential income in the face of a very high and increasing production cost, so that the old $3.00 price could be held only for collections of verse or very slender collections of stories, while other books had to go to $3.50 and $4.00, and even, in some cases, to $5.00, though the $4.00 price was to become the average.

All Arkham House books--together with those under the Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee imprints--have been printed and bound by the George Banta Company, with the exception of _The Arkham Sampler_, which was produced by the Howe Printing Company of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and _Night’s Yawning Peal_ and _Tales from Underwood_, which were published jointly with Pellegrini & Cudahy of New York, an arrangement which did not work out satisfactorily and was soon terminated. All Arkham House books were printed from type set and broken down after but one printing, except for _The Memoirs of Solar Pons_, which was plated, for use as a selection of The Unicorn Mystery Book Club.

For Arkham House jackets, various artists have been called upon, chiefly, however, Ronald Clyne of New York, and Frank Utpatel of Wisconsin. Among other artists who designed jackets for Arkham House were Frank Wakefield, Howard Wandrei, Virgil Finley, Robert F. Hubbell, George Barrows, Hannes Bok, Audrey Johnson, R. Taylor, and Gary Gore.

During its first twenty years, Arkham House cancelled publication plans for certain books. Among these were J. Sheridan LeFanu’s novel, _The House by the Churchyard_, and the anthology, _The Death Fetch and Other Gothic Tales_, edited by Stephen Grendon, both of which would have proved too costly to bring out, and would, on the basis of interest expressed, have sold far too slowly to warrant publishing. Among these also were the late Henry Kuttner’s _Mimsy Were the Borogoves_ and C. L. Moore’s _Shambleau and Other Tales_, which were announced, but not published because authors and publisher could not agree on contractual terms. Certain other announced titles--A. E. Van Vogt’s _Away and Beyond_ and _The World of Null-A_, and Fritz Leiber Jr.’s _Gather, Darkness!_ and _Conjure Wife_, were released to other publishers who could do more for them.

Arkham House faces the coming years with confidence. Added to the bibliography which is appended, Arkham House hopes and expects to publish, among others, the following books within the coming years:

THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO, by Clark Ashton Smith

INVADERS FROM THE DARK, by Greye La Spina

THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU, by August Derleth

STRAYERS FROM SHEOL, by H. Russell Wakefield

PLEASANT DREAMS, by Robert Bloch

SELECTED LETTERS, by H. P. Lovecraft

THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS, by Frank Belknap Long

THE PURCELL PAPERS, by J. Sheridan LeFanu

MR. GEORGE AND OTHER ODD PERSONS, by Stephen Grendon

TIME BURIAL, by Howard Wandrei

THREE TALES, by Walter de la Mare

RADIANT MAN, by Donald Wandrei

TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY, by Clark Ashton Smith

HALF IN SHADOW, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman

PORTRAITS BY MOONLIGHT, by Carl Jacobi

XELUCHA AND OTHERS, by M. P. Shiel

STRANGE GATEWAYS, by E. Hoffmann Price

LONESOME PLACES, by August Derleth

THE GREEN ROUND, by Arthur Machen

WORSE THINGS WAITING, by Manly Wade Wellman

BLACK MEDICINE, by Arthur J. Burks

COLONEL MARKESAN AND LESS PLEASANT

PEOPLE, by August Derleth and Mark Schorer

COLLECTED POEMS, by Donald Wandrei

THE WIND IN THE CEDARS, by August Derleth

SELECTED POEMS, by Clark Ashton Smith

COLLECTED POEMS, by H. P. Lovecraft

THE WATCHERS OUT OF TIME, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth

and, under the Mycroft & Moran imprint,

THE REMINISCENCES OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth

PRINCE ZALESKI & CUMMINGS KING MONK, by M. P. Shiel

THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth

and Stanton & Lee,

EVERETT TRUE, by A. D. Condo

Bibliography

THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS, by H. P. Lovecraft. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1939. pp. xiv., 553. $5.00. 1,268 copies printed. Contents: _Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Outsider_, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei / _Dagon_ / _Polaris_ / _Celephais/Hypnos_ / _The Cats of Ulthar_ / _The Strange High House in the Mist_ / _The Statement of Randolph Carter_ / _The Silver Key_ / _Through the Gates of the Silver Key_ / _The Outsider_ / _The Music of Erich Zann_ / _The Rats in the Walls_ / _Cool Air_ / _He_ / _The Horror at Red Hook_ / _The Temple_ / _Arthur Jermyn_ / _The Picture in the House_ / _The Festival_ / _The Terrible Old Man_ / _The Tomb_ / _The Shunned House_ / _In the Vault_ / _Pickman’s Model_ / _The Haunter of the Dark_ / _The Dreams in the Witch-House_ / _The Thing on the Doorstep_ / _The Nameless City_ / _The Lurking Fear_ / _The Call of Cthulhu_ / _The Colour out of Space_ / _The Dunwich Horror_ / _The Whisperer in Darkness_ / _The Shadow over Innsmouth_ / _The Shadow out of Time_ / _At the Mountains of Madness_ / _Supernatural Horror in Literature_.

SOMEONE IN THE DARK, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1941. pp. 335. $2.00. 1,115 copies printed. Contents: _When the Night and the House Are Still_ / _Glory Hand_ / _Compliments of Spectro_ / _A Gift for Uncle Herman_ / _McGovern’s Obsession_ / _Three Gentlemen in Black_ / _Muggridge’s Aunt_ / _Bramwell’s Guardian_ / _Joliper’s Gift_ / _Altimer’s Amulet_ / _The Shuttered House_ / _The Sheraton Mirror_ / _The Wind from the River_ / _The Telephone in the Library_ / _The Panelled Room_ / _The Return of Hastur_ / _The Sandwin Compact_.

OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1942. pp. xii., 370. $3.00. 1,054 copies printed. Contents: _Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy_, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei / _The End of the Story_ / _A Rendezvous in Averoigne_ / _A Night in Malnéant_ / _The City of the Singing Flame_ / _The Uncharted Isle_ / _The Second Interment_ / _The Double Shadow_ / _The Chain of Aforgomon_ / _The Dark Eidolon_ / _The Last Hieroglyph_ / _Sadastor_ / _The Death of Ilalotha_ / _The Return of the Sorcerer_ / _The Testament of Athammaus_ / _The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan_ / _Ubbo-Sathla_ / _The Monster of the Prophecy_ / _The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis_ / _From the Crypts of Memory_ / _The Shadows_.

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP, by H. P. Lovecraft. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1943. pp. xxix., 458. $5.00. 1,217 copies printed. Contents: _By Way of Introduction_, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei / _Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity_ / _The Commonplace Book_ / _History and Chronology of the_ Necronomicon / _Memory_ / _What the Moon Brings_ / _Nyarlathotep_ / _Ex Oblivione_ / _The Tree_ / _The Other Gods_ / _The Quest of Iranon_ / _The Doom That Came to Sarnath_ / _The White Ship_ / _From Beyond_ / _Beyond the Wall of Sleep_ / _The Unnamable_ / _The Hound_ / _The Moon-Bog_ / _The Evil Clergyman_ / _Herbert West--Reanimator_ / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_ / _The Case of Charles Dexter Ward_ / _The Crawling Chaos_ (with Elizabeth Berkeley) / _The Green Meadow_ (with Elizabeth Berkeley) / _The Curse of Yig_, by Zealia Brown-Reed / _The Horror in the Museum_, by Hazel Heald / _Out of the Eons_, by Hazel Heald / _The Mound_, by Zealia Brown-Reed / _The Diary of Alonzo Typer_, by William Lumley / _The Challenge from Beyond_ (with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long) / _In the Walls of Eryx_ (with Kenneth Sterling) / _Ibid_ / _Sweet Ermengarde_ / _Providence_ / _On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park_ / _Old Christmas_ / _New England Fallen_ / _On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight_ / _Astrophobos_ / _Sunset_ / _A Year Off_ / _A Summer Sunset and Evening_ / _To Mistress Sophia Simple,_ _Queen of the Cinema_ / _The Ancient Track_ / _The Eidolon_ / _The Nightmare Lake_ / _The Outpost_ / _The Rutted Road_ / _The Wood_ / _Hallowe’en in a Suburb_ / _Primavera_ / _October_ / _To a Dreamer_ / _Despair_ / _Nemesis_ / _Psychopompos_ / _The Book_ / _Pursuit_ / _The Key_ / _Recognition_ / _Homecoming_ / _The Lamp_ / _Zaman’s Hill_ / _The Port_ / _The Courtyard_ / _The Pigeon-Flyers_ / _The Well_ / _The Howler_ / _Hesperia_ / _Star-Winds_ / _Antarktos_ / _The Window_ / _A Memory_ / _The Gardens of Yin_ / _The Bells_ / _Night-Gaunts_ / _Nyarlathotep_ / _Azathoth_ / _Mirage_ / _The Canal_ / _St. Toad’s_ / _The Familiars_ / _The Elder Pharos_ / _Expectancy_ / _Nostalgia_ / _Background_ / _The Dweller_ / _Alienation_ / _Harbour Whistles_ / _Recapture_ / _Evening Star_ / _Continuity_ / _Yule Horror_ / _To Mr. Finlay_ / _To Clark Ashton Smith_ / _Where Once Poe Walked_ / _Christmas Greeting to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell_ / _Brick Row_ / _The Messenger_ / _The Cthulhu Mythology: a Glossary_, by Francis T. Laney / _An Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft_, by W. Paul Cook.

THE EYE AND THE FINGER, by Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. xiii., 344. $3.00. 1,617 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_ / _The Lady in Gray_ / _The Eye and the Finger_ / _The Painted Mirror_ / _It Will Grow on You_ / _The Tree-Men of M’Bwa_ / _The Lives of Alfred Kramer_ / _The Monster from Nowhere_ / _The Witch-Makers_ / _The Nerveless Man_ / _Black Fog_ / _The Blinding Shadows_ / _A Scientist Divides_ / _Earth Minus_ / _Finality Unlimited_ / _The Crystal Bullet_ / _A Fragment of a Dream_ / _The Woman at the Window_ / _The Messengers_ / _The Pursuers_ / _The Red Brain_ / _On the Threshold of Eternity_.

JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES, by Henry S. Whitehead. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. xii., 394. $3.00. 1,559 copies printed. Contents: _Henry S. Whitehead_, by R. H. Barlow / _Jumbee_ / _Cassius_ / _Black Tancrède_ / _The Shadows_ / _Sweet Grass_ / _The Black Beast_ / _Seven Turns in a Hangman’s Rope_ / _The Tree-Man_ / _Passing of a God_ / _Mrs. Lorriquer_ / _Hill Drums_ / _The Projection of Armand Dubois_ / _The Lips_ / _The Fireplace_.

LOST WORLDS, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. 419. $3.00. 2,043 copies printed. Contents: _The Tale of Satampra Zeiros_ / _The Door to Saturn_ / _The Seven Geases_ / _The Coming of the White Worm_ / _The Last Incantation_ / _A Voyage to Sfanomoë_ / _The Death of Malygris_ / _The Holiness of Azédarac_ / _The Beast of Averoigne_ / _The Empire of the Necromancers_ / _The Isle of the Torturers_ / _Necromancy in Naat_ / _Xeethra_ / _The Maze of Maal Dweb_ / _The Flower-Women_ / _The Demon of the Flower_ / _The Plutonian Drug_ / _The Planet of the Dead_ / _The Gorgon_ / _The Letter from Mohaun Los_ / _The Light from Beyond_ / _The Hunters from Beyond_ / _The Treader of the Dust_.

MARGINALIA, by H. P. Lovecraft. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. x., 377. 2,035 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei / _Imprisoned With the Pharaohs_, by Houdini / _Medusa’s Coil_, by Zealia Brown (Reed) Bishop / _Winged Death_, by Hazel Heald / _The Man of Stone_, by Hazel Heald / _Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction_ / _Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction_ / _Lord Dunsany and His Work_ / _Heritage or Modernism; Common Sense in Art Forms_ / _Some Backgrounds of Fairyland_ / _Some Causes of Self-Immolation_ / _A Guide to Charleston, South Carolina_ / _Observations on Several Parts of North America_ / _The Beast in the Cave_ / _The Transition of Juan Romero_ / _Azathoth_ / _The Book_ / _The Descendant_ / _The Very Old Folk_ / _The Thing in the Moonlight_ / _Two Comments_ / _His Own Most Fantastic Creation_, by Winfield Townley Scott / _Some Random Memories of H. P. L._, by Frank Belknap Long / _H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation_, by T. O. Mabbott / _The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H. P. Lovecraft in Florida_, by R. H. Barlow / _Lovecraft and Science_, by Kenneth Sterling / _Lovecraft as a Formative Influence_, by August Derleth / _The Dweller in Darkness_, by Donald Wandrei / _To Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _H. P. L._, by Henry Kuttner / _Lost Dream_, by Emil Petaja / _To Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Francis Flagg / _H. P. Lovecraft_, by Frank Belknap Long / _Elegy: In Providence the Spring ...,_, by August Derleth / _For the Outsider: H. P. Lovecraft_, by Charles E. White / _In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft_, by Richard Ely Morse. With illustrations, photographs, drawings by Lovecraft, and reproduction of _Lament for H. P. L._, by Alfred Galpin.

SOMETHING NEAR, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 274. 2,054 copies printed. Contents: _A Thin Gentleman with Gloves_ / _Mr. Ames’ Devil_ / _A Wig for Miss Devore_ / _Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind_ / _Pacific 421_ / _Headlines for Tod Shayne_ / _No Light for Uncle Henry_ / _Lansing’s Luxury_ / _Carousel_ / _Lady Macbeth of Pimley Square_ / _Here, Daemos!_ / _McElwin’s Glass_ / _An Elegy for Mr. Danielson_ / _The Satin Mask_ / _Motive_ / _The Metronome_ / _The Inverness Cape_ / _The Thing That Walked on the Wind_ / _Ithaqua_ / _Beyond the Threshold_ / _The Dweller in Darkness_.

THE OPENER OF THE WAY, by Robert Bloch. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xi., 309. $3.00. 2,065 copies printed. Contents: _By Way of Introduction_ / _The Cloak_ / _Beetles_ / _The Fiddler’s Fee_ / _The Mannikin_ / _The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton_ / _Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper_ / _The Seal of the Satyr_ / _The Dark Demon_ / _The Faceless God_ / _The House of the Hatchet_ / _The Opener of the Way_ / _Return to the Sabbath_ / _The Mandarin’s Canaries_ / _Waxworks_ / _The Feast in the Abbey_ / _Slave of the Flames_ / _The Shambler from the Stars_ / _Mother of Serpents_ / _The Secret of Sebek_ / _The Eyes of the Mummy_ / _One Way to Mars_.

WITCH HOUSE, by Evangeline Walton. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 200. $2.50. 2,949 copies printed.

GREEN TEA AND OTHER GHOST STORIES, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. x., 357. $3.00. 2,026 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by August Derleth / _Schalken the Painter_ / _Squire Toby’s Will_ / _Green Tea_ / _Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling_ / _Carmilla_ / _The Sexton’s Adventure_ / _Madam Crowl’s Ghost_ / _Sir Dominick’s Bargain_ / _The Vision of Tom Chuff_ / _Ultor De Lacy_ / _Dickon the Devil_ / _The House in Aungier Street_ / _Mr. Justice Harbottle_ / _The Familiar_.

THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 196. $2.50. 3,041 copies printed.

THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap Long. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 316. $3.00. 2,602 copies printed. Contents: _A Visitor from Egypt_ / _The Refugees_ / _Fisherman’s Luck_ / _Death-Waters_ / _Grab Bags Are Dangerous_ / _The Elemental_ / _The Peeper_ / _Bridgehead_ / _Second Night Out_ / _The Dark Beasts_ / _Census Taker_ / _The Ocean Leech_ / _The Space-Eaters_ / _It Will Come to You_ / _A Stitch in Time_ / _Step into My Garden_ / _The Hounds of Tindalos_ / _Dark Vision_ / _The Flame Midget_ / _Golden Child_ / _The Black Druid_.

THE DOLL AND ONE OTHER, by Algernon Blackwood. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 138. $1.50. 3,490 copies printed. Contents: _The Doll_ / _The Trod_.

THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS, by William Hope Hodgson. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xi., 639. $5.00. 3,014 copies printed. Contents: _William Hope Hodgson, Master of the Weird and Fantastic_, by H. C. Koenig / _The Boats of the “Glen Carrig”_ / _The House on the Borderland_ / _The Ghost Pirates_ / _The Night Land_ / _Bibliography_, by A. Langley Searles.

SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS, by Robert E. Howard. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. x., 475. $5.00. 3,004 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by August Derleth / _Which Will Scarcely Be Understood_ / _Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam_, by H. P. Lovecraft / _A Memory of R. E. Howard_, by E. Hoffmann Price / _Wolfshead_ / _The Black Stone_ / _The Horror from the Mound_ / _The Cairn on the Headland_ / _Black Canaan_ / _The Fire of Asshurbanipal_ / _A Man-Eating Jeopard_ / _Skull-Face_ / _The Hyborian Age_ / _Worms of the Earth_ / _The Valley of the Worm_ / _Skulls in the Stars_ / _Rattle of Bones_ / _The Hills of the Dead_ / _Wings in the Night_ / _The Shadow Kingdom_ / _The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune_ / _Kings of the Night_ / _The Phoenix on the Sword_ / _The Scarlet Citadel_ / _The Tower of the Elephant_ / _Rogues in the House_ / _Shadows in Zamboula_ / _Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die_.

WEST INDIA LIGHTS, by Henry S. Whitehead. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 367. $3.00. 3,037 copies printed. Contents: _Black Terror_ / _West India Lights_ / “_Williamson_” / _The Shut Room_ / _The Left Eye_ / _Tea Leaves_ / _The Trap_ / _The Napier Limousine_ / _The Ravel_ Pavane / _Sea Change_ / _The_ _People of Pan_ / _The Chadbourne Episode_ / _Scar Tissue_ / “--_In Case of Disaster Only_” / _Bothon_ / _The Great Circle_ / _Obi in the Caribbean_.

FEARFUL PLEASURES, by A. E. Coppard. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xiii., 301. $3.00. 4,033 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_ / _Adam and Eve and Pinch Me_ / _Clorinda Walks in Heaven_ / _The Elixir of Youth_ / _Simple Simon_ / _Old Martin_ / _The Bogie Man_ / _Polly Morgan_ / _The Gollan_ / _The Post Office and the Serpent_ / _Crotty Shinkwin_ / _Ahoy, Sailor Boy!_ / _Gone Away_ / _Rocky and the Bailiff_ / _Ale Celestial?_ /_The Fair Young Willowy Tree_ / _Father Raven_ / _The Drum_ / _Cheese_ / _The Homeless One_ / _The Kisstruck Bogie_ / _The Tiger_ / _The Gruesome Fit_.

THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE, by H. Russell Wakefield. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xi., 248. $3.00. 4,040 copies printed. Contents: _Why I Write Ghost Stories_ / _Into Outer Darkness_ / _The Alley_ / _Jay Walkers_ / _Ingredient X_ / “_I Recognized the Voice_” / _Farewell Performance_ / _Not Quite Cricket_ / _In Collaboration_ / _A Stitch in Time_ / _Lucky’s Grove_ / _Red Feathers_ / _Happy Ending?_ / _The First Sheaf_ / _Masrur_ / _A Fishing Story_ / _Used Car_ / _Death of a Poacher_ / _Knock! Knock! Who’s There?_

SLAN, by A. E. Van Vogt. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 216. $2.50. 4,051 copies printed.

THIS MORTAL COIL, by Cynthia Asquith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 245. $3.00. 2,609 copies printed. Contents: _In a Nutshell_ / _The White Moth_ / _The Corner Shop_ / “_God Grante That She Lye Stille_” / _The Playfellow_ / _The Nurse Never Told_ / _The Lovely Voice_ / _The First Night_ / _The Follower_.

DARK OF THE MOON: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre, edited by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. xvi., 418. $3.00. 2,634 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_, by August Derleth / _The Twa Corbies_ / _A Lyke-Wake Direg_ / _William and Marjorie_ / _The Wee Wee Man_ / _The Wife of Usher’s Well_ / _Fair Eleanor_, by William Blake / _Address to the Deil_, _Tam o’ Shanter_, _Death and Doctor Hornbook_, by Robert Burns / _Kilmeny_, by James Hogg / _The Eve of St. John_, by Sir Walter Scott / _Kubla Khan_, _Phantom_, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / _The Lake of the Dismal Swamp_, by Thomas Moore / _The Hand of Glory_, by Richard Harris Barham / _The Erl King_, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / _La Belle Dame Sans Merci_, by John Keats / _The Haunted House_, _The Dream of Eugene Aram_, _Pompey’s Ghost_, _The Ghost_, by Thomas Hood / _The Phantom-Wooer_, _The Ghosts’ Moonshine_, by Thomas Lovell Beddoes / _The Phantom Ship_, _The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi_, _The Ghosts_, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / _The Raven_, _Dream-Land_, _Ulalume_, by Edgar Allan Poe / _Rizpah_, by Alfred Lord Tennyson / _A Lowland Witch Ballad_, by William Bell Scott / _The Legend of the Glaive_, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu / _The Weird Lady_, _The Sands of Dee_, by Charles Kingsley / _Keith of Ravelston_, by Sydney Thompson Dobell / _The Witch Bride_, _The Fairies_, by William Allingham / _The Flying Dutchman_, by Charles Godfrey Leland / _The Lost Steamship_, _The Three Gannets_, _The Demon of the Gibbet_, by Fitz-James O’Brien / _Sister Helen_, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti / _Goblin Market_, _The Ghost’s Petition_, by Christina Rossetti / _The City of Dreadful Night_, by James Thomson / _The Wind_, by William Morris / _The Highwayman’s Ghost_, by Richard Garnett / _The Ballad of Judas Iscariot_, by Robert Buchanan / _The Song of the Ghost_, by A. P. Graves / _A Glimpse of Pan_, _The Witch of Erkmurden_, by James Whitcomb Riley / _A Windy Night_, _Roads_, _An April Ghost_, _Bitters_, by Lizette Woodworth Reese / _The True Lover_, by A. E. Housman / _Lazarus_, by José Asunción Silva / _All Souls’ Night_, _The Fair Little Maiden_, _The Fetch_, _The Fairy Thorn-Tree_, by Dora Sigerson Shorter / _Luke Havergal_, by Edwin Arlington Robinson / _The Superstitious Ghost_, by Arthur Guiterman / _The Listeners_, _The Little Green Orchard_, _The Ghost_, by Walter de la Mare / _A Dracula of the Hills_, _The Paper in the Gate-Legged Table_, _Haunted_, by Amy Lowell / _The Witch of Coös_, by Robert Frost / _The Little Dead Child_, by Josephine Daskam Bacon / _Dave Lilly_, by Joyce Kilmer / _The Sorceress of the Moon_, by William Rose Benet / _221B_, _Changeling_, _Visitation_, _Legend_, _Gooseflesh_, _Extraordinary Visit_, _Sea Story_, by Vincent Starrett / _Lonesome Water_, _Old Christmas_, by Roy Helton / _Psychopompos_, _Fungi from Yuggoth_ (_The Book_, _Pursuit_, _The Key_, _Recognition_, _Homecoming_, _The Lamp_, _Zaman’s Hill_, _The Port_, _The_ _Courtyard_, _The Pigeon-Flyers_, _The Well_, _The Howler_, _Hesperia_, _Star-Winds_, _Antarktos_, _The Window_, _A Memory_, _The Gardens of Yin_, _The Bells_, _Night-Gaunts_, _Nyarlathotep_, _Azathoth_, _Mirage_, _The Canal_, _St. Toad’s_, _The Familiars_, _The Elder Pharos_, _Expectancy_, _Nostalgia_, _Background_, _The Dweller_, _Alienation_, _Harbour Whistles_, _Recapture_, _Evening Star_, _Continuity_), _The Messenger_, _The Ancient Track_, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft / _The Warning_, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin / _The Eldritch Dark_, _Warning_, _The Hashish-Eater_, _Nightmare_, _Outlanders_, _Nyctalops_, _Shadows_, _The Envoys_, _Fantaisie d’Antan_, _In Thessaly_, _Resurrection_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Owls_, by Timeus Gaylord / _The Orchard Ghost_, by Mark Van Doren / _Werewolf_, by Arthur Inman / _Metropolitan Nightmare_, _Nightmare Number Three_, by Stephen Vincent Benét / _The Goblin Tower_, _In Mayan Splendor_, _Sonnet_, _A Knight of La Mancha_, _On Reading Arthur Machen_, _The Abominable Snow Men_, _The Horror on Dagoth Wold_, by Frank Belknap Long / _Just Then the Door_, by Merrill Moore / _Forgetful Hour_, _The Specter’s Tale_, _The Haunted Stairs_, by Yetza Gillespie / _The Snake_, _The Dreamer in the Desert_, by Francis Flagg / _Strange_, _Forest God_, _Tree Woman_, _The Wolves of Egremont_, by Dorothy Quick / _The Harp of Alfred_, _Futility_, _The Singer in the Mist_, _Solomon Kane’s Homecoming_, _Moon Mockery_, _The King and the Oak_, _Recompense_, _Always Comes Evening_, _The Ghost Kings_, _The Last Hour_, _Which Will Scarcely Be Understood_, _Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die_, by Robert Ervin Howard / _Sonnets of the Midnight Hours_ (_After Sleep_, _Purple_, _The Hungry Flowers_, _The Eye_, _The Torturers_, _The Statues_, _The Old Companions_, _The Head_, _In the Attic_, _The Cocoon_, _The Metal God_, _The Little Creature_, _The Pool_, _The Prey_, _The Rack_, _Escape_, _Capture_, _In the Pit_, _The Bell_, _The Ultimate Vision_), by Donald Wandrei / _Weldon House_, _Lois Malone_, _Ted Birkett_, _Bart Hinch_, _The Shores of Night_, _Man at the Window_, _Stranger in the Night_, _Mark of Man--Mark of Beast_, by August Derleth / _Sonnet of the Unsleeping Dead_, by Anthony Boucher / _Fox Hunters of Hell_, by Byron Herbert Reece / _Dreams of Yith_, by Duane W. Rimel / _Nostalgia_, _Echidna_, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman / _Changeling_, _Wood Wife_, _In the Shadows_, _The Path Through the Marsh_, _The Tenants_, _All-Saints’ Eve_, _The Ballad of the Jabberwock_, _Heard on the Roof at Midnight_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Wayfarers_, _Two Hunters_, by Harvey Wagner Flink / _Star Gazer_, _Death at Sea_, _The Goats of Juan Fernandez_, by Coleman Rosenberger.

DARK CARNIVAL, by Ray Bradbury. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 313. $3.00. 3,112 copies printed. Contents: _The Homecoming_ / _Skeleton_ / _The Jar_ / _The Lake_ / _The Maiden_ / _The Tombstone_ / _The Smiling People_ / _The Emissary_ / _The Traveler_ / _The Small Assassin_ / _The Crowd_ / _Reunion_ / _The Handler_ / _The Coffin_ / _Interim_ / _Jack-in-the-Box_ / _The Scythe_ / _Let’s Play “Poison”_ / _Uncle Einar_ / _The Wind_ / _The Night_ / _There Was an Old Woman_ / _The Dead Man_ / _The Man Upstairs_ / _The Night Sets_ / _Cistern_ / _The Next in Line_.

REVELATIONS IN BLACK, by Carl Jacobi. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 272. $3.00. 3,082 copies printed. Contents: _Revelations in Black_ / _Phantom Brass_ / _The Cane_ / _The Coach on the Ring_ / _The Kite_ / _Canal_ / _The Satanic Piano_ / _The Last Drive_ / _The Spectral Pistol_ / _Sagasta’s Last_ / _The Tomb from Beyond_ / _The Digging at Pistol Key_ / _Moss Island_ / _Carnaby’s Fish_ / _The King and the Knave_ / _Cosmic Teletype_ / _A Pair of Swords_ / _A Study in Darkness_ / _Mive_ / _Writing on the Wall_ / _The Face in the Wind_.

NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. x., 237. $3.00. 3,084 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_ / _Smoke Ghost_ / _The Automatic Pistol_ / _The Inheritance_ / _The Hill and the Hole_ / _The Dreams of Albert Moreland_ / _The Hound_ / _Diary in the Snow_ / _The Man Who Never Grew Young_ / _The Sunken Land_ / _Adept’s Gambit_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number One: Winter, 1948. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _Messrs. Turkes and Talbot_, by H. Russell Wakefield / _History and Chronology of the Necromicon_, by H. P. Lovecraft. Together with some pertinent paragraphs by August Derleth / _Lamia_, _The Nameless Wraith_, _The City of Destruction_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Little Anthology_, edited by Malcolm Ferguson / _Mara_, by Stephen Grendon / _A Hornbook for Witches_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Checklist: The_ _Carvings of Clark Ashton Smith_ / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_,