Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house created in 1937 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, and known for having collected, assembled, and published the work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (both previously published and unreleased stories, including "posthumous collaborations" of Derleth and Lovecraft) and of other authors of the Cthulhu Mythos (the term coined by Derleth to name the fictional universe created by Lovecraft and his "Lovecraft Circle").
A few Cthulhu Mythos stories were adapted by Marvel Comics with the authorization of Arkham House.
==Overview==
When Howard Phillips Lovecraft died in 1937, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei collected and assembled some of his stories for publication, but opposed to the disinterest of publishers, they decided to found Arkham House in 1939, and published their first anthology, The Outsiders and Others, the same year.
By 1957, they co-published the first volume ever of poetry by Robert E. Howard (the creator of Conan, Kull, Dark Agnes, Solomon Kane and others, an a contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos), Always Comes Evening, with Glenn Lord, a fan of Howard's work. This prompted L. Sprague de Camp to arrange for Glenn Lord to become the literary agent for Howard's estate. Glenn Lord would later allow Marvel Comics to adapt Conan and his stories by REH.; Swords and Scrolls: Roy's Ramblings
As publishers; The Terrible Old Man, Credits; The Music From Beyond, Credits; The Haunter of the Dark, Credits or copyright holders,; Pickman's Model, Credits Arkham House allowed, "by special arrangement"; The Terrible Old Man, Credits; The Music From Beyond, Credits or "by permission",; Pickman's Model, Credits; The Haunter of the Dark, Credits Marvel Comics to adapt various Cthulhu Mythos tales, including "The Terrible Old Man" in (January, 1970) and (May, 1975), "The Music of Erich Zann" as "The Music From Beyond" in (June, 1970), "Pickman's Model" in (January, 1971), "The Haunter of the Dark" in (April, 1973).
==Trivia==
* Arkham House is obviously named after Arkham, the fictional and iconic Massachusetts city created by H.P. Lovecraft, also the source of the name for DC Comics' Arkham Asylum, later appearing, merged with Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, in the DC/Marvel Amalgam Comics, as Arkham Tower.
==See also==
* August Derleth
* H.P. Lovecraft
* Cthulhu Mythos
==External Links==
* Arkham House Publishers
* Arkham House at the H.P. Lovecraft Wiki
==References==
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