Arkham House

Arkham House ist ein US-amerikanischer Verlag, der sich auf die Herausgabe von phantastischer Literatur spezialisiert hat.

Geschichte Der Verlag wurde 1939 von August Derleth und Donald Wandrei gegründet, um zunächst nur Werke des bewunderten Freundes H. P. Lovecraft zu veröffentlichen. Sie befürchteten, dass dessen Erzählungen, die lediglich in Pulp-Magazinen wie Weird Tales erschienen, ansonsten dem Bewusstsein der Leser entschwinden würden. Der Name des Verlages leitet sich von der fiktiven Stadt Arkham ab, die Schauplatz mehrerer Erzählungen von Lovecraft ist. Hier erschienen zum ersten Mal gebundene Ausgaben mit Lovecrafts gesammelten Werken. Der erste im Verlag erschienene Band war die heute sehr gesuchte Sammlung The Outsider and Others. Obwohl sich das Buch zunächst nur schleppend verkaufte, hatten Derleth, Wandrei und ihr Verlag einen bedeutenden Anteil am späteren Erfolg von Lovecraft.

Nach dem ersten Band erschienen Erzählungen von Derleth (Someone in the Dark, 1941), danach kam Clark Ashton Smith (Out of Space and Time, 1942) hinzu. In bibliophilen und in kleinen Stückzahlen gefertigten Ausgaben wurden etwa die Werke von Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Basil Copper, Frank Belknap Long, Henry S. Whitehead und Robert E. Howard, aber auch Klassiker wie Sheridan le Fanu publiziert. Der Verlag wurde 1983 mit dem Convention Award des World Fantasy Awards ausgezeichnet.

Chronologische Titelliste Jahr Autor Titel 1939 H. P. Lovecraft The Outsider and Others 1941 August Derleth Someone in the Dark 1942 Clark Ashton Smith Out of Space and Time 1943 H. P. Lovecraft Beyond the Wall of Sleep 1944 Clark Ashton Smith Lost Worlds 1944 Donald Wandrei The Eye and the Finger 1944 Henry S. Whitehead Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales 1944 H. P. Lovecraft Marginalia 1945 August Derleth Something Near 1945 Evangeline Walton Witch House 1945 H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth The Lurker at the Threshold 1945 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories 1945 Robert Bloch The Opener of the Way 1946 A. E. Coppard Fearful Pleasures 1946 A. E. van Vogt Slan 1946 Algernon Blackwood The Doll and One Other 1946 Frank Belknap Long The Hounds of Tindalos 1946 Henry S. Whitehead West India Lights 1946 Herbert Russell Wakefield The Clock Strikes Twelve 1946 Robert E. Howard Skull-Face and Others 1946 William Hope Hodgson The House on the Borderland and Other Novels 1947 August Derleth (Hrsg.) Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre 1947 Carl Jacobi Revelations in Black 1947 Cynthia Asquith This Mortal Coil 1947 Fritz Leiber Night's Black Agents 1947 Ray Bradbury Dark Carnival 1948 August Derleth Not Long for this World 1948 Clark Ashton Smith Genius Loci and Other Tales 1948 Donald Wandrei The Web of Easter Island 1948 Lord Dunsany The Fourth Book of Jorkens 1948 L. P. Hartley The Travelling Grave and Other Stories 1948 Seabury Quinn Roads 1949 H. P. Lovecraft Something About Cats and Other Pieces 1949 Sydney Fowler Wright The Throne of Saturn 1950 Leah Bodine Drake A Hornbook for Witches 1951 Clark Ashton Smith The Dark Chateau 1952 August Derleth (Hrsg.) Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company 1952 David H. Keller Tales from Underwood 1953 Zealia Bishop The Curse of Yig 1954 John Metcalfe The Feasting Dead 1957 H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth The Survivor and Others 1957 Robert E. Howard Always Comes Evening 1958 August Derleth The Mask of Cthulhu 1958 Clark Ashton Smith Spells and Philtres 1958 Joseph Payne Brennan Nine Horrors and a Dream 1959 August Derleth Arkham House: The First 20 Years 1959 August Derleth Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft 1959 H. P. Lovecraft und andere The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces 1960 Clark Ashton Smith The Abominations of Yondo 1960 Greye La Spina Invaders from the Dark 1960 Robert Bloch Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares 1961 August Derleth (Hrsg.) Fire and Sleet and Candlelight 1961 H. P. Lovecraft The Shunned House 1961 Herbert Russell Wakefield Strayers from Sheol 1962 August Derleth 100 Books by August Derleth 1962 August Derleth (Hrsg.) Dark Mind, Dark Heart 1962 August Derleth Lonesome Places 1962 August Derleth The Trail of Cthulhu 1962 H. P. Lovecraft Dreams and Fancies 1963 Stephen Grendon Mr. George and Other Odd Persons 1963 Frank Belknap Long The Horror from the Hills 1963 H. P. Lovecraft Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity 1963 H. P. Lovecraft Collected Poems 1963 H. P. Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror and Others 1963 Manly Wade Wellman Who Fears the Devil? 1963 Robert E. Howard The Dark Man and Others 1964 August Derleth (Hrsg.) Over the Edge 1964 Carl Jacobi Portraits in Moonlight 1964 Clark Ashton Smith Tales of Science and Sorcery 1964 Donald Wandrei Poems for Midnight 1964 H. P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels 1964 Joseph Payne Brennan Nightmare Need 1964 John Ramsey Campbell The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants 1965 Clark Ashton Smith Poems in Prose 1965 Donald Wandrei Strange Harvest 1965 H. P. Lovecraft Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1965 H. P. Lovecraft Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft I (1911–1924) 1965 Stanley McNail Something Breathing 1965 Vincent Starrett The Quick and the Dead 1966 Arthur J. Burks Black Medicine 1966 August Derleth, Mark Schorer Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People 1966 H. P. Lovecraft et al. The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces 1967 August Derleth (Hrsg.) Travellers by Night 1967 Colin Wilson The Mind Parasites 1967 E. Hoffmann Price Strange Gateways 1967 H. P. Lovecraft Three Tales of Horror 1967 William Hope Hodgson Deep Waters 1968 Arthur Machen The Green Round 1968 H. P. Lovecraft Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft II (1925–1929) 1968 Nelson Bond Nightmares and Daydreams 1969 David H. Keller The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Tales 1969 H. P. Lovecraft et al. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 1970 August Derleth Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939–69: A History and Bibliography 1970 Clark Ashton Smith Other Dimensions 1970 H. P. Lovecraft The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions 1970 L. Sprague de Camp Demons and Dinosaurs 1971 August Derleth (Hrsg.) Dark Things 1971 Brian Lumley The Caller of the Black 1971 Clark Ashton Smith Selected Poems 1971 Denys Val Baker The Face in the Mirror 1971 Donald Sidney-Fryer Songs and Sonnets Atlantean 1971 H. P. Lovecraft Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft III (1929–1931) 1971 Walter de la Mare Eight Tales 1972 August Derleth (Hrsg.) The Arkham Collector: Volume I 1972 Carl Jacobi Disclosures in Scarlet 1972 Frank Belknap Long The Rim of the Unknown 1973 Basil Copper From Evil's Pillow 1973 Joseph Payne Brennan Stories of Darkness and Dread 1973 John Ramsey Campbell Demons by Daylight 1974 Brian Lumley Beneath the Moors 1974 H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth The Watchers Out of Time and Others 1974 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Collected Ghost Stories 1975 August Derleth Harrigan's File 1975 Frank Belknap Long Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside 1975 Gary Myers The House of the Worm 1975 Gerald W. Page (Hrsg.) Nameless Places 1975 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Purcell Papers 1975 Lin Carter Dreams from R'lyeh 1975 Matthew Phipps Shiell Xélucha and Others 1976 August Derleth Dwellers in Darkness 1976 H. P. Lovecraft Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft IV (1932–1934) 1976 H. P. Lovecraft Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft V (1934–1937) 1976 L. Sprague de Camp Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers 1976 Marjorie Bowen Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales 1976 John Ramsey Campbell The Height of the Scream 1977 Basil Copper And Afterward, the Dark 1977 Brian Lumley The Horror at Oakdeene and Others 1977 Frank Belknap Long In Mayan Splendor 1978 Mary Elizabeth Counselman Half in Shadow 1978 Phyllis Eisenstein Born to Exile 1979 Clark Ashton Smith The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith 1979 Elizabeth Walter In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters 1979 Russell Kirk The Princess of All Lands 1980 Basil Copper Necropolis 1980 John Ramsey Campbell (Hrsg.) New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 1981 Charles L. Grant Tales from the Nightside 1981 David F. Case The Third Grave 1981 Richard L. Tierney Collected Poems 1982 David Kesterton The Darkling 1982 Michael Bishop Blooded on Arachne 1983 Basil Copper The House of the Wolf 1983 Greg Bear The Wind from a Burning Woman 1983 Joanna Russ The Zanzibar Cat 1984 Michael Bishop One Winter in Eden 1984 Michael Bishop Who Made Stevie Crye? 1984 Russell Kirk Watchers at the Strait Gate 1985 H. P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels 1985 H. P. Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror and Others 1985 Richard A. Lupoff Lovecraft's Book 1986 H. P. Lovecraft Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1986 James Tiptree, Jr. Tales of the Quintana Roo 1986 Tanith Lee Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee 1987 Lucius Shepard The Jaguar Hunter 1987 Michael Shea Polyphemus 1988 Clark Ashton Smith A Rendezvous in Averoigne 1988 J. G. Ballard Memories of the Space Age 1989 Bruce Sterling Crystal Express 1989 H. P. Lovecraft et al. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 1989 H. P. Lovecraft The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions 1990 James Tiptree, Jr. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever 1990 Lucius Shepard The Ends of the Earth 1991 Michael Swanwick Gravity's Angels 1992 James Blaylock Lord Kelvin's Machine 1992 John Kessel Meeting in Infinity 1993 Nancy Kress The Aliens of Earth 1993 John Ramsey Campbell Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961–1991 1994 Alexander Jablokov The Breath of Suspension 1994 H. P. Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi (Hrsg.) Miscellaneous Writings 1995 Jim Turner (Hrsg.) Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology 1996 Mary Rosenblum Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities 1997 Ian R. MacLeod Voyages by Starlight 1998 Peter Cannon (Hrsg.) Lovecraft Remembered 1998 Robert Bloch Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies 1999 August Derleth (Hrsg.) New Horizons 1999 Frederic S. Durbin Dragonfly 1999 S. T. Joshi (Hrsg.) Sixty Years of Arkham House 2000 Barry N. Malzberg In the Stone House 2000 Peter Ruber (Hrsg.) Arkham's Masters of Horror 2001 E. Hoffmann Price Book of the Dead 2002 John D. Harvey The Cleansing 2002 Nelson Bond The Far Side of Nowhere 2003 Clark Ashton Smith Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith 2004 Milt Thomas Cave of a Thousand Tales 2005 Nelson Bond Other Worlds Than Ours 2006 James Robert Smith, Stephen Mark Rainey (Hrsg.) Evermore 2008 H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Weinberg The Shunned House Facsimile 2009 August Derleth The Macabre Quarto 2010 George Vanderburgh, Robert Weinberg (Hrsg.) The Arkham Sampler (1948-1949) 2010 Jon Lellenberg Baker Street Irregular

Literatur August Derleth: Thirty Years of Arkham House : 1939–1969. A History and Bibliography. Arkham House, Sauk City 1970. S. T. Joshi: Sixty Years of Arkham House : A History and Bibliography. Arkham House. Sauk City, WI 1999, ISBN 0-87054-176-5. Leon Nielsen: Arkham House Books : A Collector's Guide. McFarland & Company, Jefferson, NC & London, ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. Rein A. Zondergeld: Lexikon der phantastischen Literatur. Weitbrecht, Stuttgart & Wien & Bern 1998, ISBN 3-522-72175-6, S. 382 f.

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