Talk:Arkham House

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Can someone please provide a critical reference for Ray Bradbury being "of the Lovecraft school." I have read dozens and dozens of Lovecraftian Mythos literature compilations -- and also read practically all of Bradbury's work. Bradbury cannot possibly be construed as a "Mythos author" or in the "Lovecraft school"... a better argument could be made for Stephen King to be in the "Lovecraft school" considering he's written Mythos work while, to my knowledge, Bradbury has written nothing remotely like it. — 64.122.204.27, 05:49, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Bradbury was a Lovecraft fan, and he has said in his early, unpuiblished writings he imitated Lovecraft and other authors, and wrote a letter to August Derleth praising his Lovecraft publications. But that's not the same thing as being in the Lovecraftian school of authors. — Walloon 11:59, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I completely agree. As much as I enjoy them both, they're of two different schools. I have many "Lovecraftian" books in my collection. (Unfortunatley I have to sell them now. any takers?) mjh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.57.121.160 (talk) 20:08, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Stil in business ?

Uhm , it's been ca. 3 years since their last publication and their site , the last time I checked, had "subscriptions for 2007" open . Are they stil in business ? --New Babylon 2 (talk) 10:15, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Category

• Category:Arkham House books now exists. this is an easy one. i will leave the exercise to interested editors.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:18, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

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Last part of history section

The last part of the history section includes various comments that need tidying up:

"Current owners are April Derleth's children Danielle and Damon. They manage the business themselves and, since her death, have made progress, paying off massive debt, and saving the family home in the process [how is the family home relevant to Arkham Press, which appears to have failed?]. All that has precluded work on new books [according to who?], though thought has been given to the matter [by who? Clearly not the owners/Derleth children].

Danielle and Damon Derleth signed an agreement in April 2017 with an author named David Marcum to produce new Solar Pons Adventures to expand upon those of Derleth and Copper (not to be published by Arkham House, but possibly a sign of activity to come, or possibly a useless detail thrown in to obscure Danielle and Damon closing the business)."

-- Beardo (talk) 02:42, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Good spotting, looks like a WP:OR war between two editors with extra bitterness. I've tried to preserve the factual parts and scrub the rest. Arlo James Barnes 18:45, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Merge

The Purcell Papers is on Project Gutenberg, Kindle, and Nook Books and has been published widely by various ebook distributors. There doesn't seem to be anything special about this edition -which "does not include all of the stories in the 1880 book." It is already listed here as one of their 1975 publications. In the alternative, it could also be just a redirect. Manannan67 (talk) 01:38, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

It would make more sense to me to merge it into The Purcell Papers, without the list of stories included, but calling attention to the pastiche, "The Churchyard Yew." —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 13:25, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

There are a number of editions of The Purcell Papers; there's nothing particularly special about this one; but for the fact that it also contains a story by Derleth, co-founder of Arkham. Manannan67 (talk) 20:38, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Agreed. When I'm thinking merge it would probably end up being more redirect, but adding a sentence somewhere that makes sense saying something like: "In 1975, Arkham House reprinted as The Purcell Papers four stories from the original collection, along with nine other Le Fanu short stories and a pastiche of Le Fanu, "The Churchyard Yew," written by August Derleth using Le Fanu's name as a pseudonym." —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 21:27, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

That sounds like the right thing to do. Mightyherculescalifornia (talk) 04:27, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 10:19, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Frank Utpatel

Wikipedia has lots of articles about every aspect of Arkham house, its editions and authors but no article on Frank Utpatel. Ronald Cline and Lee Brown Coye do have articles. When I Google images of Utpatel's work, I find a lot of work of better quality than most of what he did for Arkham, esp. landscapes. Pascalulu88 (talk) 18:12, 7 July 2023 (UTC)