Inventory of the Arkham House Collection: 1930-1953

Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951

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Blackwood was an American author. From the description of Autograph, 1914. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79137494 English author. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : London, to Tom Turner, 1949 Jan 3 and 1949 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270881469 English novelist and short-story writer. From the description of Letters, 1925 May 27 and 1926 Nov. 11. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas...

Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

Wandrei, Howard, 1909-

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Howard Wandrei was born on Sept. 5, 1909 in St. Paul, Minn. Howard wrote under the pseudonym of H.W. Guernsey and did illustrations for his brother's book, Dark odyssey, and for the jacket of The eye and the finger. From the description of Correspondence, 1934-1943. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 145566960 ...

Whitehead, Henry S. (Henry St. Clair), 1882-1932

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Hodgson, William Hope, 1877-1918

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William Hope Hodgson, (1875-1918), son of Rev. Samuel Hodgson. He was a British soldier in the Mercantile Marines who was killed in WWII. He was the author of 8 books. Hodgson and his wife, Bessie, lived in France at the outbreak of the war. They later lived in Cardigan, Wales. From the description of William Hope Hodgson papers. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 259351455 ...

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Wandrei, Donald, 1908-1987

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Donald Wandrei was born on April 20, 1908 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Albert C. (1872-1942) and Jeannette Adelaide (1878-1972) Wandrei. He had three siblings, David G. ([1907?]-1959), Howard (1909-1956), and Jeannette Alberta (1913-1972). Donald received his B.A. degree with a major in English prose from the University of Minnesota in 1928. While in school he was a contributor to the Minnesota Quarterly and a member of the editorial board of the Minnesota Daily. He sold his first stor...

Gamwell, Annie E. Phillips

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Howard, R. E.

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Clyne, Ronald

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Bishop, Zealia B. (Zealia Brown)

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Smith, Clark Ashton, 1893-1961

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Clark Ashton Smith was an author of poetry and later of fantastic fiction in pulp magazines. He began correspondence with another author Samuel Loveman in 1913 that would last until 1941. Loveman also acquired skills in book dealing and eventually set up his own shop, the Bodley Gallery (Bodley Press) in the 1930's. From the description of Clark Ashton Smith letters : to Samuel Loveman, 1913-1941. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 50825411 Clark Ashto...

Utpatel, Frank

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Derleth, August, 1909-1971

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August William Derleth, 1909-1971, was an author. Although Derleth's literary strengths are exemplified in his nostalgic writings about the Midwestern prairies, he is best remembered for his "weird" fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. From the guide to the Derleth mss., 1958-1965, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly) American author. From the description of Typed letters signed (108) : Sauk City, Wis., to Edw...

Drake, Leah Bodine, 1904-1964

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American poetess. From the description of A hornbook for witches : poems of fantasy, ca. 1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122622947 Poet. Leah Bodine Drake was born in Kansas but attended school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lexington, Ky. She was a writer and a poet, publishing her first volume of poetry, A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES, in 1950. From 1941 to 1951, she was drama critic for the EVANSVILLE (Ind.) COURIER. Her second volume, THIS TILTING DUST, a...

Asquith, Cynthia, Lady, 1887-1960

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Author of biographies, novels, short stories, and plays. Compiler of anthologies of ghost stories and children's tales. Private secretary to author J.M. Barrie during World War I. From the description of Cynthia Asquith correspondence, 1927-1955. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 9628027 Novelist. Compiled a number of anthologies of short stories and children's tales, and acted as private secretary to Sir James Matthew Barrie. ...

Winters, Sandy (Sandra)

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Coppard, A.E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878-1957

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English short story writer and poet. From the description of Alfred Edgar Coppard letters, 1928-1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 489375325 English short-story writer and poet. From the description of Typed letter signed : Dunmow, Essex, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1946 Apr. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868041 Coppard was an English author. From the description of Compositions, 1921-1923. (Harvard Uni...

Wakefield, Russel

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Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937

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H. P. Lovecraft is widely considered the twentieth century's most important writer of supernatural horror fiction. Forging a unique niche within the horror genre, he created what became known as "weird tales," stories containing a distinctive blend of dreamlike imagery, Gothic terror, and elaborate concocted mythology. During his lifetime Lovecraft published work almost exclusively in pulp magazines, and only after his death in 1937 did he receive a wide readership and critical ana...

Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947

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Welsh novelist and essayist, a forerunner of 20th century Gothic science fiction. From the description of Eleusinia / by a former member of H. C. S. 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122598531 From the guide to the Eleusinia, 1881, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Machen was a Welsh writer of tales, mystical, romantic, and macabre. From the description of Introduction to Lady Benson's Memoirs : manuscript, 1926. (Peking University Library). WorldCat...

Jacobi, Carl, 1908-1997

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Carl Jacobi is known as a writer of science-fiction, mystery, and fantasy materials. He attended the University of Minnesota from 1927-1930 and wrote for campus magazines. After leaving college he continued to live and work in Minneapolis, writing short stories that were published in pulp magazines. He also wrote novels and published compilations of his work. Jacobi died in 1997. From the guide to the Carl Jacobi papers, 1929-1971, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscr...

Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947

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Matthew Phipps Shiel began life in the West Indies of Irish parentage and later studied languages and medicine in London, before the appearance of his first book Prince Zaleski, in 1895. He subsequently wrote over thirty novels including such classic works as The Lord of the Sea, The Yellow Danger, How the Old Woman Got Home, and his science fiction masterpiece, The Purple Cloud. From the description of Children of the wind, ca. 1922. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldC...

Block, Robert

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Wright, S. Fowler (Sydney Fowler), 1874-1965

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