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Part II

, by Lewis Holberg / _The Death of Lovers_, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Clark Ashton Smith / _Escape_, by Thomas H. Carter / _Sidney Sime of Worplesdon_, by Martin Gardner / _Nightmare_, by Erasmus Darwin / _The Song of the Pewee_, by Stephen Grendon / _A Little Anthology_, edited by Malcolm Ferguson / _Abracadabra_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _The Rape of Things to Come_, by Robert Bloch / _Perhaps the Future_, by John Haley / _Nelson Bond’s New Stories_, _A Selected Shelf of Fantasy_, by August Derleth / _Anthropology and Fiction_, by Everett F. Bleiler / _A Contrasting Duo_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _Two Views of the Future_, by Frank Belknap Long / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_ / _Index_.

SOMETHING ABOUT CATS AND OTHER PIECES, by H. P. Lovecraft. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. Illustrated, pp. ix., 306. $3.00. 2,995 copies printed. Contents: _A Prefatory Note_, by August Derleth / _Something About Cats_ / _The Invisible Monster_, _Four O’Clock_, by Sonia H. Greene / _The_ _Horror in the Burying Ground_, by Hazel Heald / _The Last Test_, _The Electric Executioner_, by Adolphe de Castro / _Satan’s Servants_, by Robert Bloch / _The Despised Pastoral_ / _Time and Space_ / _Merlinus Redivivus_ / _At the Root_ / _The Materialist Today_ / _Vermont: A First Impression_ / _The Battle That Ended the Century_ / _Notes for “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”_ / _Discarded Draught of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”_/ _Notes for “At the Mountains of Madness”_ / _Notes for “The Shadow Out of Time”_ / _Phaeton_ / _August_ / _Death_ / _To the American Flag_ / _To a Youth_ / _My Favorite Character_ / _To Templeton and Mount Monadnock_ / _The House_ / _The City_ / _The Poe-et’s Nightmare_ / _Sir Thomas Tryout_ / _Lament for the Vanished Spider_ / _Regnar Lodburg’s Epicedium_ / _A Memoir of Lovecraft_, by Rheinhart Kleiner / _Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Samuel Loveman / _Lovecraft as I Knew Him_, by Sonia H. Davis / _Lovecraft’s Sensitivity_, _Lovecraft’s “Conservative”_, by August Derleth / _The Man Who Was Lovecraft_, by E. Hoffman Price / _A Literary Copernicus_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight_, by August Derleth / _H. P. L._, by Vincent Starrett.

THE THRONE OF SATURN, by S. Fowler Wright. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1949. pp. 186. $3.00. 3,062 copies printed. Contents: _Justice_ / _This Night_ / _Brain_ / _Appeal_ / _Proof_ / _P. N. 40_ / _Automata_ / _The Rat_ / _Rule_ / _Choice_ / _The Temperature of Gehenna Sue_ / _Original Sin_.

A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES, poems by Leah Bodine Drake. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1950. pp. 70. $2.10. 553 copies printed. Contents: _A Hornbook for Witches_ / _Unhappy Ending_ / _Witches on the Heath_ / _The Tenants_ / _The Ballad of the Jabberwock_ / _Bad Company_ / _Mouse Heaven_ / _Rabbit-Dance_ / _Wood-Wife_ / _A Likely Story!_ / _The Man Who Married a Swan-Maiden_ / _All-Saints’ Eve_ / _The Last Faun_ / _Changeling_ / _In the Shadows_ / _Figures in a Nightmare_ / _The Witch Walks in Her Garden_ / _The Seal-Woman’s Daughter_ / _They Run Again_ / _The Path Through the Marsh_ / _Old Wives’ Tale_ / _A Vase from Araby_ / _The Fur Coat_ / _House Accurst_ / _The Vision_ / _Sea-Shell_ / _Willow-Women_ / _The Girl in the Glass_ / _Heard on the Roof at Midnight_ / _Terror by Night_ / _Legend_ / _The Heads on Easter Island_ / _Haunted Hour_ / _Goat-Song_ / _The Nixie’s Pool_ / _The Stranger_ / _Encounter in Broceliande_ / _The Window on the Stair_ / _The Old World of Green_ / _Curious Story_ / _The Steps in the Field_ / _Midsummer Night_ / _Old Daphne_ / _Mad Woman’s Song_ / _Griffon’s Gold_ / _Black Peacock_ / _The Centaurs_.

THE DARK CHATEAU, poems by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1951. pp. 63. $2.50. 563 copies printed. Contents: _Amithaine_ / _Seeker_ / _The Dark Chateau_ / _Lamia_ / _Pour Chercher du Nouveau_ / “_O Golden-Tongued Romance_” / _Averoigne_ / _Zothique_ / _The Stylite_ / _Dominium in Excelsis_ / _Moly_ / _Two Myths and a Fable_ / _Eros of Ebony_ / _Shapes in the Sunset_ / _Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch_ / _Don Quixote on Market Street_ / _Malediction_ / _Hellenic Sequel_ / _The Cypress_ / _The Old Water-Wheel_ / _Calenture_ / _Soliloquy in an Ebon Tower_ / _Sinbad, It Was Not Well to Brag_ / _Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts_ / _Surréaliste Sonnet_ / _The Twilight of the Gods_ / _The Poet Talks with the Biographers_ / _Desert Dweller_ / _Hesperian Fall_ / “_Not Altogether Sleep_” / _Some Blind Eidolon_ / _The Isle of Saturn_ / _Oblivion_ / _Revenant_ / _In Slumber_ / _Cambion_ / _The Witch with Eyes of Amber_ / _The Outer Land_ / _Luna Aeternalis_ / _Ye Shall Return_.

TALES FROM UNDERWOOD, by David H. Keller. Published for Arkham House, by Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York, 1952. pp. vii., 322. $3.95. 3,500 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_ / _The Worm_ / _The Revolt of the Pedestrians_ / _The Yeast Men_ / _The Ivy War_ / _The Doorbell_ / _The Flying Fool_ / _The Psychophonic Nurse_ / _A Biological Experiment_ / _Free as the Air_ / _The Bridle_ / _Tiger Cat_ / _The God Wheel_ / _The Golden Bough_ / _The Jelly Fish_ / _The Opium Eater_ / _The Thing in the Cellar_ / _The Moon Artist_ / _Creation Unforgivable_ / _The Dead Woman_ / _The Door_ / _The Perfumed Garden_ / _The Literary Corkscrew_ / _A Piece of Linoleum_.

NIGHT’S YAWNING PEAL: A Ghostly Company, edited by August Derleth. Arkham House: Publishers, with Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York, 1952. pp. viii., 280. $3.00. 4,500 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_ / _Mr. George_, by Stephen Grendon / _The Loved Dead_, by C. M. Eddy, Jr. / _The Sign_, by Lord Dunsany / _The La Prello Paper_, by Carl Jacobi / _The Gorge of the_ _Churels_, by H. Russell Wakefield / _Dhoh_, by Manly Wade Wellman / _The Churchyard Yew_, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu / _Technical Slip_, by John Beynon Harris / _The Man Who Collected Poe_, by Robert Bloch / _Hector_, by Michael West / _Roman Remains_, by Algernon Blackwood / _A Damsel with a Dulcimer_, by Malcolm Ferguson / _The Suppressed Edition_, by Richard Curle / _The Lonesome Place_, by August Derleth / _The Case of Charles Dexter Ward_, by H. P. Lovecraft.

THE CURSE OF YIG, by Zealia B. Bishop. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1953. pp. 175. $3.00. 1,217 copies printed. Contents: _The Curse of Yig_ / _Medusa’s Coil_ / _The Mound_ / _H. P. Lovecraft: A Pupil’s View_ / _A Wisconsin Balzac: A Profile of August Derleth_.

THE FEASTING DEAD, by John Metcalfe. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954. pp. 123. $2.50. 1,242 copies printed.

THE SURVIVOR AND OTHERS, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1957. pp. 161. $3.00. 2,096 copies printed. Contents: _The Survivor_ / _Wentworth’s Day_ / _The Peabody Heritage_ / _The Gable Window_ / _The Ancestor_ / _The Shadow out of Space_ / _The Lamp of Alhazred_.

ALWAYS COMES EVENING, collected poems of Robert E. Howard. Compiled by Glenn Lord. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1957. pp. x., 86. 636 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by Glenn Lord / _Introduction_, by Dale Hart / _Always Comes Evening_ / _The Poets_ / _The Singer in the Mist_ / _Solomon Kane’s Homecoming_ / _Futility_ / _The Song of the Bats_ / _The Moor Ghost_ / _Recompense_ / _The Hills of Kandahar_ / _Which Will Scarcely Be Understood_ / _Haunting Columns_ / _The Last Hour_ / _Ships_ / _The King and the Oak_ / _The Riders of Babylon_ / _Easter Island_ / _Moon Mockery_ / _Shadows on the Road_ / _The Soul-Eater_ / _The Dream and the Shadow_ / _The Ghost Kings_ / _Desert Dawn_ / _An Open Window_ / _The Song of a Mad Minstrel_ / _The Gates of Nineveh_ / _Fragment_ / _The Harp of Alfred_ / _Remembrance_ / _Crete_ / _Forbidden Magic_ / _Black Chant Imperial_ / _A Song out of Midian_ / _Arkham_ / _Voices of the Night_ / _Song at Midnight_ / _The Ride of Falume_ / _Autumn_ / _Dead Man’s Hate_ / _One Who Comes at Eventide_ / _To a Woman_ / _Emancipation_ / _Retribution_ / _Chant of the White Beard_ / _Rune_ / _The Road of Azrael_ / _Song of the Pict_ / _Prince and Beggar_ / _Hymn of Hatred_ / _Invective_ / _Men of the Shadows_ / _Babylon_ / _Niflheim_ / _The Heart of the Sea’s Desire_ / _Laughter in the Gulfs_ / _A Song of the Don Cossacks_ / _The Gods of Easter Island_ / _Nisapur_ / _Moon Shame_ / _The Tempter_ / _Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die_ / _Chapter Headings_.

SPELLS AND PHILTRES, poems by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. 54. $3.00. 519 copies printed. Contents: _Dedication_ / _Didus Ineptus_ / _Thebaid_ / _Secret Love_ / _The_ _Pagan_ / _Tired Gardener_ / _Nada_ / _High Surf_ / _The Centaur_ / _Said the Dreamer_ / _The Nameless Wraith_ / _The Blindness of Orion_ / _Jungle Twilight_ / _The Phoenix_ / _The Prophet Speaks_ / _Farewell to Eros_ / _Alternative_ / _Only to One Returned_ / _Anteros_ / _No Stranger Dream_ / _Do You Forget, Enchantress?_ / _Necromancy_ / _Dialogue_ / _October_ / _Dominion_ / _Tolometh_ / _Disillusionment_ / _Almost Anything_ / _Parnassus a la Mode_ / _Fence and Wall_ / _Growth of Lichen_ / _Cats in Winter Sunlight_ / _Abandoned Plum-Orchard_ / _Harvest Evening_ / _Willow-Cutting in Autumn_ / _Late Pear-Pruner_ / _Geese in the Spring Night_ / _The Sparrow’s Nest_ / _The Last Apricot_ / _Unicorn_ / _Untold Arabian Fable_ / _A Hunter Meets the Martichoras_ / _The Sciapod_ / _The Monacle_ / _Feast of St. Anthony_ / _Paphnutius_ / _Philter_ / _Perseus and Medusa_ / _Essence_ / _Passing of an Elder God_ / _Nightmare of the Lilliputian_ / _Mithridates_ / _Quiddity_ / _“That Motley Drama”_ (from Clérigo Herrero) / _Rimas XXXIII_ (from Gustavo Adolfo Bequer) / _Ecclesiastes_ (from Leconte de Lisle) / _Anterior Life_ (from Charles Baudelaire) / _Song of Autumn_ (from Charles Baudelaire) / _Lethe_ (from Charles Baudelaire) / _The Metamorphoses of the Vampire_ (from Charles Baudelaire) / _Epigrams and Apothegms_.

THE MASK OF CTHULHU, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. 201. $3.50. 2,051 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_ / _The Return of Hastur_ / _The Whippoorwills in the Hills_ / _Something in Wood_ / _The Sandwin Compact_ / _The House in the Valley_ / _The Seal of R’lyeh_.

NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM, by Joseph Payne Brennan. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. 120. $3.00. 1,336 copies printed. Contents: _Slime_ / _Levitation_ / _The Calamander Chest_ / _Death in Peru_ / _On the Elevator_ / _The Green Parrot_ / _Canavan’s Back Yard_ / _I’m Murdering Mr. Massington_ / _The Hunt_ / _The Mail for Juniper Hill_.

ARKHAM HOUSE: THE FIRST 20 YEARS, prepared by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1959. pp. 54. A Chapbook. $1.00. 775 copies ordered.

SOME NOTES ON H. P. LOVECRAFT, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1959. pp. 42. A Chapbook. $1.00. 1,000 copies ordered. Contents: _The Myths_ / _The Unfinished Manuscripts_ / _The Writing Habits_ / _The Barlow Journal_ / _H. P. Lovecraft: Four Letters_.

THE SHUTTERED ROOM AND OTHER PIECES, by H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1959. Illustrated. $5.00. 3,000 copies ordered. Contents: _The Shuttered Room_, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth / _The Fisherman of Falcon Point_, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth / Juvenilia, by H. P. Lovecraft--_The Alchemist_, _The Street_ / _Old Bugs_, by H. P. Lovecraft / _The Commonplace Book_, by H. P. Lovecraft, annotated by August Derleth / _Lovecraft’s First Book_, by William L. Crawford / _Memories of a Friendship_, by Alfred Galpin / _Out of the Ivory Tower_, by Robert Bloch / _H. P. Lovecraft: The Books_, by Lin Carter / _H. P. Lovecraft: The_ _Gods_, by Lin Carter / _Homage to H. P. Lovecraft_, by Felix Stefanile / _Three Hours with H. P. Lovecraft_, by Dorothy C. Walker / _Lines to H. P. Lovecraft_, by Joseph Payne Brennan / _Revenants_, by August Derleth / _Lovecraft in Providence_, by Donald Wandrei / _Lovecraft as Mentor_, by August Derleth / _Bibliography of the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft_, by George T. Wetzel / _The Shadow Over Innsmouth_, by H. P. Lovecraft, with the original illustrations by Frank Utpatel / _The Strange High House in the Mist_, by H. P. Lovecraft / together with other reprints and photographs.

Associated Imprints

“IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES”--The Adventures of Solar Pons, by August Derleth. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xv., 238. $2.50. 3,604 copies printed. Contents: _In Re: Solar Pons_, by Vincent Starrett / _A Word from Dr. Lyndon Parker_ / _The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet_ / _The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham_ / _The Adventure of the Black Narcissus_ / _The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle_ / _The Adventure of the Retired Novelist_ / _The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs_ / _The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman_ / _The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt_ / _The Adventure of the Limping Man_ / _The Adventure of the Seven Passengers_ / _The Adventure of the Lost Holiday_ / _The Adventure of the Man with the Broken Face_.

CARNACKI, THE GHOST-FINDER, by William Hope Hodgson. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 241. $3.00. 3,050 copies printed. Contents: _The Thing Invisible_ / _The Gateway of the Monster_ / _The House Among the Laurels_ / _The Whistling Room_ / _The Searcher of the End House_ / _The Horse of the Invisible_ / _The Haunted “Jarvee”_ / _The Find_ / _The Hog_.

THE MEMOIRS OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1951. pp. xxii., 245. $3.00. 2,038 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_, by Ellery Queen / _The Adventure of the Circular Room_ / _The Adventure of the Perfect Husband_ / _The Adventure of the Broken Chessman_ / _The Adventure of the Dog in the Manger_ / _The Adventure of the Proper Comma_ / _The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot_ / _The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders_ / _The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive_ / _The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf_ / _The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen_ / _The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant_.

THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1952. pp. vii., 112. $2.50. 996 copies printed. Contents: _A Note for the Aficionado_ / _The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers_ / _The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm_ / _The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty_.

THE RETURN OF SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1958. pp. xiii., 261. $4.00. 2,079 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_, by Edgar W. Smith / _The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman_ / _The Adventure of the Devil’s_ _Footprints_ / _The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance_ / _The Adventure of the “Triple Kent”_ / _The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers_ / _The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse_ / _The Adventure of the Stone of Scone_ / _The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm_ / _The Adventure of the Penny Magenta_ / _The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant_ / _The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty_ / _The Adventure of the Little Hangman_ / _The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures_.

BILL’S DIARY, by Dwig (Clare Victor Dwiggins). Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xx., 288. $2.00. 2,002 copies printed. Contents: _Dwig--and Bill_, _Eternal Boy_, by August Derleth / _Bill’s Diary_ (cartoons) / _Night-Haunt_, _Spring Rain_, _Woods Music_, _Leaf Burning Time_, _Snow_, by August Derleth.

EVENING IN SPRING, by August Derleth. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. x., 308. $1.49. 2,990 copies printed. A reprint of the Charles Scribner’s Sons edition of 1941, with a new _Foreword_.

OLIVER, THE WAYWARD OWL, by August Derleth. Illustrations by Dwig. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 84. $1.50. 3,089 copies printed.

A BOY’S WAY, poems by August Derleth. Pictures by Dwig. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 109. $2.00. 1,990 copies printed. _The Ambush_ / _Houseboat_ / _Screech Owls_ / _Fox and Hounds_ / _Down to the Sea in Ships_ / _Rowing at Night_ / _Jew’s Harp Music_ / _My Dog Spot_ / _Bullheading_ / _Smokewood_ / _Book Review_ / _Spring_ / _First Kiss_ / _Whistling in the Dark_ / _Spring Fever_ / _Sunfishing_ / _Haunted House_ / _The Collectors_ / _Timber!_ / _Doughnuts_ / _Woods at Night_ / _The Old Frog Pond_ / _The Stereopticon in Grandma’s Parlor_ / _Nighthawk_ / _The Recital_ / _The Lamp_ / _Night Mail_ / _Firebell in the Night_ / _Turtling_ / _The Piano Lesson_ / _Fish Rising_ / _Rain on the Attic Roof_ / _The Day after the Circus_ / _Moonrise_ / _Clouds_ / _Night Train_ / _The Scissors-Grinder_ / _Dwellers in the Dark_ / _Box-Social_ / _Treasure_ / _Playing at Dusk_ / _New Moon_ / _Horsehair Chair_ / _Damming the Brook_ / _Hallowe’en_ / _Leaf-Burning_ / _O Ye of Little Faith!_ / _Nutting_ / _Ice Skating_ / _Sherlock Holmes_ / _Hawk_.

WISCONSIN EARTH, A Sac Prairie Sampler, by August Derleth. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 335, 250, 314. $5.00. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. Wood-engravings by George Barford, Frank Utpatel. Reprinted from the original editions by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Loring & Mussey, Coward-McCann, Inc. 1,186 copies printed. Contents: _Shadow of Night_ / _Place of Hawks_ (_Five Alone_, _Farway House_, _Nine Strands in a Web_, _Place of Hawks_) / _Village Year: A Sac Prairie Journal_.

SAC PRAIRIE PEOPLE, by August Derleth. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 322. $3.00. 2,131 copies printed. Contents: _Kleine Nachtmusik_ / _Expedition to the North_ / _Ellie Butts_ / _A Little Quiet in the Evening_ / _McCrary’s Wife_ / _The Sisters_ / _Moonlight in the Apple Tree_ / _Valse Oubliée_ / _Where the_ _Worm Dieth Not_ / _Now Is the Time for All Good Men_ / _Nella_ / _The Night Light at Vorden’s_ / _Aunt May and the Refugees_ / _Stuff of Dream_ / _Rendezvous_ / _The Lost Kiss_ / _“That Feller Oates”_ / _One Against the Dead_ / _Light Again_ / _I Was Walking Helen Home_.

IT’S A BOY’S WORLD, poems by August Derleth. Pictures by Dwig. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 107. $2.00. 1,244 copies printed. Contents: _First Crocus_ / _The Bobbing Cork_ / _Streetlight Shadows_ / _The Locomotive Engineer_ / _The Customer_ / _The Raft_ / _The Millpond Terror_ / _School Play_ / _Roller-Skating_ / _Tadpoles_ / _The Bat_ / _The Old Swimming Hole_ / _Haying_ / _My Owl_ / _Peewee’s Ride_ / _The Cabin in the Woods_ / _The Old Covered Bridge_ / _The Baseball Game_ / _The Belfry_ / _The Unexplored Island_ / _The Soap-Coupon Telescope_ / _The Waterfall_ / _Glowworms_ / _Heaven’s Gate_ / _Old Speck_ / _Potato Bugs and Weeds_ / _The Hanging Tree_ / _Dogs Barking_ / _The Long Trail_ / _The Cellar Dweller_ / _Otter_ / _The Wind in the Leaves_ / _Acorns on the Roof_ / _The Sparrow in the Willows_ / _Cornshocks_ / _Elderberry Syrup_ / _Pumpkin Faces_ / _Deer_ / _Torch Signals_ / _Leaf-Painter_ / _Bonfire in the Woods_ / _Witch Hazel on Hallowe’en_ / _The Dance_ / _Snowstorm_ / _Bob-Sledding_ / _The Long Ride_ / _The Harness Shop_ / _Drying Hickory Nuts_ / _The Mystery Picture at the Old Electric_ / _The Caboose on the Train_.

BRIGHT JOURNEY, by August Derleth. A reprint of the Charles Scribner’s Sons edition of 1940. pp. 424 $3.50. Title page unchanged. 1,021 copies printed, 1953. 1,567 copies reprinted 1955.

WIND OVER WISCONSIN, by August Derleth. A reprint of the Charles Scribner’s Sons edition of 1938. pp. 391. $3.50. Title page unchanged. 1,032 copies printed, 1957.

WILBUR, THE TRUSTING WHIPPOORWILL, by August Derleth. Illustrations by Dwig. Stanton & Lee, Sauk City, Wisconsin. 990 copies printed, 1959. pp. 64. $2.00.

Addenda

In the course of its first two decades, Arkham House has stocked and sold certain non-Arkham House books in the genre of the macabre. Collectors are sometimes confused by such titles offered for sale by Arkham House. The following books, offered for sale by Arkham House, were not published under the House imprint:

DARK ODYSSEY, poems by Donald Wandrei.

SLEEP NO MORE, edited by August Derleth.

WHO KNOCKS?, edited by August Derleth.

BEST SUPERNATURAL STORIES OF H. P. LOVECRAFT, edited by August Derleth.

THE NIGHT SIDE, edited by August Derleth.

THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD, edited by August Derleth.

STRANGE PORTS OF CALL, edited by August Derleth.

H. P. L.: A MEMOIR, by August Derleth.

SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE, by H. P. Lovecraft.

WORLDS OF TOMORROW, edited by August Derleth.

BEYOND TIME AND SPACE, edited by August Derleth.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON, edited by August Derleth.

FAR BOUNDARIES, edited by August Derleth.

As of July 1, 1959, these Arkham House titles are out of print or removed from catalogue listing:

THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS, by H. P. Lovecraft

SOMEONE IN THE DARK, by August Derleth

OUT OF SPACE AND TIME, by Clark Ashton Smith

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP, BY H. P. Lovecraft

THE EYE AND THE FINGER, by Donald Wandrei

JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES, by Henry S. Whitehead

LOST WORLDS, by Clark Ashton Smith

MARGINALIA, by H. P. Lovecraft

SLAN, by A. E. Van Vogt

THE OPENER OF THE WAY, by Robert Bloch

SOMETHING NEAR, by August Derleth

GREEN TEA AND OTHER STORIES, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth

DARK CARNIVAL, by Ray Bradbury

A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES, by Leah Bodine Drake

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER: 1948

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER: 1949

THE DARK CHATEAU, by Clark Ashton Smith

THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap Long

THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS, by August Derleth

Transcriber's Notes:

Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.

Perceived typographical errors have been changed.