The legendary Arkham House is alive and well, with several new publishing projects on the horizon:

MISSION STATEMENT 2010

Sapientiant Astutiantque

In 1939, two successful authors, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, decided to publish a hardcover collection of short stories by their late friend and mentor, H.P. Lovecraft. Love-craft, who had died in 1937, was considered by many to be the finest horror writer of the 20th century, yet no mainstream publisher was willing to take a chance on a volume of his short fiction. Derleth and Wandrei named their new press, Arkham House, after the eerie New England village where most of Lovecraft's stories took place. Over the next seven decades, Arkham House published the best horror and supernatural fiction in the world. A brother-in-arms press, Mycroft & Moran, issued mysteries.

The goal of Arkham House as established by Derleth and Wandrei, then continued by Derleth alone when Wandrei was drafted, was simple. Arkham House was dedicated to publishing the finest horror fiction available, in attractive limited hardcover editions. Books were selected by merit, not on whether they were commercially viable projects. Quality of content was what made Arkham House the most honored and imitated small press in the fantasy field.

That same mission, to publish the finest horror and mystery fiction in attractive hardcover format, remains the goal of Arkham House today.

THE ARKHAM BROTHERHOOD & ARKHAM SISTERHOOD

Many people strive to be writers. Few succeed. It takes a rare combination of talents to become a published author. Writers need to be patient; passionate; hardworking yet dreamers; disciplined yet wildly unpredictable; and most of all, dedicated to their craft. Thousands try, but only a small handful see print. Of this handful, only a select number compose fiction that meets the high standards of Arkham House. The men of this small group form the Arkham House Brotherhood. The women are members of the Arkham House Sisterhood. Long may they write and reign. The world of letters would be a much more boring place without them.

This will be an interesting mix of revised and expanded classic favorites and well as interesting, outre and provoca?tive new authors. Two books a year - one new and one old.

George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg,
the co-editors

ARKHAM HOUSE: THE LIST

2010 - Baker Street Irregular by Jon Lellenberg
A hardcover edition limited to 1000.
ISBN 978-1-55246-922-4 ... $39.95

- The Arkham Sampler (1948-1949) 2 Volumes A facsimile reprint in hardcover of the extremely rare Arkham House magazine that ran four issues a year for 1948 & 1949. A subscription edition limited to 250 sets
ISBN 978-1-55246-927-9 ... $149.95

2011 - Deadly Dimensions and Other Blasphemies A Novel and Short Weird Fiction by Lois H. Gresh
A hardcover edition limited to 1000.
ISBN 978-1-55246-923-1 ... $39.95

- The Gargoyle and Others: A Quarto of Horror by Greye La Spina. Four short horror novels from the early pages of Weird Tales magazine. Includes the classic were?wolf novel "Invaders from the Dark," along with "The Gargoyle," "Fettered," and "The Portal to Power."
An edition size has not been, order by subscription.
ISBN 978-1-55246-910-1 ... $39.95

2011 - The Arkham House H.P. Lovecraft
The digital edition in 13 volumes
The General Editor John Haefele
Multiple pirated copies of this definitive text as well as corrupted text are available elsewhere. In addition this text is essentially in the public domain in other parts of the world since the author died in 1937. However this is the first authorized edition, and should not be missed. These volumes are suitable for all forms of e-book readers. The entire set of volumes will be available individually for downloading, or all on one CD.. ........... Reasonable but not set as yet

2014 - Seventy-Five Years of Arkham House
ISBN 978-1-55246-924-8 ... Not set as yet
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Baker Street Irregular
A NOVEL BY JON LELLENBERG (2010)
In 1930s New York, Christopher Morley's Baker Street Irregulars seem oblivious to the grim realities of the Depression, Hitler's rise to power, and ultimately war. The Sherlockian skylarking the world perceives is exactly what Woody Hazelbaker, a young and green lawyer, is eager for, the day he encounters Morley and the Irregulars in a Manhattan speakeasy: "it seemed utterly innocent, and a lot like playing hooky," he confides. But when he finds it plunging him into secrets and misadventures far removed from a lawyer's hum-drum life, he has a secret of his own to protect: though seemingly a respectable member of the Bar, he has New York's Napoleon of Crime for a client.

Behind the scenes, Woody and the Irregulars join a covert struggle to circumvent America's isolationism, subvert its neutrality, and keep embattled Britain afloat--and when war comes to America as well, to defeat Hitler despite treason, espionage, and murder along the way. In a series of wartime intelligence assignments, Woody deploys stratagems learned from his secret client to wage a clandestine war of his own, taking him from the White House to London and Germany, then back to the nerve center of America's cryptological campaign against both the Axis and the Soviet Union.

From the Great Depression's worst year to the Cold War's birth, Baker Street Irregular peers deep beneath the surface of American history in a mystery and espionage tale unlike any told about the Baker Street Irregulars before--"a story," Sherlock Holmes himself would warn, "for which the world is not yet prepared."

JON LELLENBERG ("Rodger Prescott of evil memory," BSI) is an alumnus of USC's School of International Relations, the U.S. National War College, and the National Senior Intelligence Course. He spent thirty years at the Pentagon, retiring in 2006 as director of its Special Operations bureau's policy and strategy office.

As the BSI's historian, his eight volumes to date have won the BSI's Morley-Montgomery and Silver Penguin Awards. His 2007 Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters was a BBC Book of the Week in Britain, and in America won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for best critical work, along with Agatha and Anthony Awards from Malice Domestic and the Bouchercon. He has written several other books about Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, and co?edited seven collections of new Sherlock Holmes tales by mystery writers, most recently Sherlock Holmes in America (2009).

Deadly Dimensions and Other Blasphemies
A Novel and Short Weird Fiction by Lois H. Gresh (2011)
Since the early 1990's, Lois H. Gresh has tied quantum physics and math to weird tales of dementia, altered realities, and nanotech-flesh conquests. She believes that our perceptions of reality are anthropomorphic visions, that the un?known far exceeds our self-centered views of the universe. Her earliest published stories merged science with the super?natural, producing acclaimed weird tales such as Snip My Suckers, Psychomildew Love, Let Me Make You Suffer, Digital Pistil, Cafebabe, Algorithms & Nasal Structures, Mandelbrot Moldrot, Where I Go, Mi-Go, and many others. Recent stories include There's No Place Like Void, The Lagoon of Insane Plants, and Julia Brainchild; and the forthcoming Eldtrich Evolutions (2011) collects some of her favorite tales in one volume.

Lois has waited ten years -- since the release of her first novel in 1999 -- to write a no-constraints creative novel springing from her roots in weird fiction.

With Deadly Dimensions and Other Blasphemies from Arkham House (2011), Lois dishes up a book stuffed with the kind of dark fantasies, supernatural oddities, and whack?ed-out weirdness that launched her career. The novel, Deadly Dimensions, ties quantum physics and math to weird tales of dementia, altered realities, and nanotech-flesh conquests. And the Other Blasphemies are several new works of shorter fiction from Lois H. Gresh: Arkham's Mistress of the Weird.

LOIS H. GRESH is the New York Times Best-Selling Author (2008 & 2009) and Publishers Weekly Best-Selling Paperback Author (2009) of 21 books with 5 more scheduled during 2010 and 2011. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages and are in print worldwide: Italy, Japan, Spain, Russia, Germany, Portugal, France, Brazil, Thailand, Korea, China, Estonia, England, Canada/French, Finland, Poland, Czech, etc. In addition, they are often featured in the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Science News, National Geographic, Physics Today, New Scientist, and US News and World Report, as well as by National Public Radio, the BBC, Fox national news, the History Channel, and many other television and radio programs. Lois' teen novels have been endorsed by the American Library Association and the Voice of Youth Advocates. She's the author of dozens of published mystery/ suspense, dark fantasy, and weird fiction stories. Lois has received Bram Stoker Award, Nebula Award, and International Horror Guild Award nominations for her work.