| In more ways than one, the late August Derleth is responsible forthe existence of this book. Back in 1955--when I was in my early teens---my life was per-manently and happily altered when I discovered Arkham House, asmall publishing firm headed by Derleth based in the village ofSauk City, Wisconsin. Arkham House specialized (and still does)in books of macabre and fantasy fiction, starting up in 1939 withpublication of a 1200-copy edition of a large omnibus of H. P. Love-craft s stories entitled The Outsider and Others, which various NewYork publishers had declined to bring out. Against many negativeproclamations, including those of Edmund Wilson, who referredto Lovecraft s stories as "hack work," Derleth campaigned tire-lessly for over thirty years to help gain Lovecraft the kind of seriousliterary recognition he now enjoys. |
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