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. Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. ... Jump to: navigation, search Donald Wandrei (1908 - 1987) was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. ... Jump to: navigation, search H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts. ...

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. H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ...

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. Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1903 - January 3, 1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was a prolific American writer. ... August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. ... William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English author of horror and fantastic fiction. ... Jump to: navigation, search Algernon Henry Blackwood (March 14, 1869 – December 10, 1951) was a British writer of tales of the supernatural. ... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 - February 7, 1873) was an Irish writer of short stories and novels concerning the strange and supernatural. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... Brian Lumley (born December 12, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. ...

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., Michael Shea and J. G. Ballard, often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works. Jump to: navigation, search Michael Bishop (born November 12, 1945) is an American science-fiction and fantasy writer. ... Lucius Shepard (born 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer who now lives in Vancouver, Washington (across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon). ... Jump to: navigation, search Bruce Sterling at the Ars Electronica Festival Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. ... James Tiptree, Jr (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was the pen name of science fiction author Alice Sheldon. ... Michael Shea is an American fantasy author. ... James Graham Ballard (born November 15, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British novelist. ...

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• Arkham House Publishers
• A facsimile reprint of the 1948 Arkham House edition of "Roads" by Seabury Quinn