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Publishing & reference

Arkham House

Arkham House is the publishing company founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei in 1939. Established to bring Lovecraft’s scattered writing into substantial book collections, it developed into an important home for modern and older weird fiction, poetry and related scholarship.

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Generated painted interpretation of August Derleth in a dark velvet shirt.
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August Derleth

August William Derleth (1909–1971) was a Wisconsin author, anthologist and publisher. With Donald Wandrei he founded Arkham House, helping preserve Lovecraft and a much wider range of weird fiction in book form. His own Mythos stories and editorial interpretations also reshaped the tradition, while regional writing and detective fiction occupied major parts of his independent career.

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C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction, creator of Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry, a correspondent of Lovecraft and a participant in The Challenge from Beyond. Her independent early work and later collaboration with Henry Kuttner are both essential to her career. Neither can be reduced to her place in someone else’s literary circle.

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Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber transformed the inheritance of weird fiction through urban horror, science fiction, heroic fantasy and criticism. His brief correspondence with Lovecraft came near the beginning of his writing life, but its consequences extended across decades. Jonquil Leiber’s initiative and Harry Otto Fischer’s creative partnership are essential parts of that history.

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Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell is a British horror writer whose early Lovecraftian apprenticeship developed into an independent exploration of perception, urban life and human vulnerability. His Brichester fiction adds a distinctive English geography to the Mythos, while his later return to Gla’aki and Daoloth transforms material he had first handled as a young writer.

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