Īfter Derleth's death in 1971, Donald Wandrei briefly acted as editorial director but declined to resume his interest in the firm permanently. Derleth wrote in 1970, "he fact is that in no single year since its founding have the earnings of Arkham House met the expenses, so that it has been necessary for my personal earnings to shore up Arkham House finances." Robert Weinberg has stated "Arkham House's greatest flop was Witch House, an excellent novel that took nearly two decades to go out of print. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.ĭespite the wealth of talented writers who appeared under the Arkham House imprint, it was not a financial success.
Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson (under the prompting of Herman Charles Koenig), Algernon Blackwood, H.
(Arkham House's volumes of Lovecraft's letters are highly abridged unabridged volumes of Lovecraft's letters to individual correspondents have been issued progressively by Hippocampus Press).Īrkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Among his correspondents were Arkham House founders, Derleth and Wandrei. Lovecraft's fiction, Arkham House published a five volume edition of Lovecraft's Selected Letters which gives an overview of Lovecraft's correspondence to peers, friends and family. Keller prevented Arkham from going bankrupt during a period of cash flow problems. Robert Weinberg has written that: "However, intense competition from the SF (science fiction) small presses as well as slow sales of certain titles put August Derleth in a precarious bind.
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