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.

Weblinks

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