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weirdlookindog · 4 months

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Ronald Clyne - Not Long for This World, 1948

#ronald clyne #not long for this world #cover art #august derleth #arkham house #horror art #graveyard #cemetery #art #illustration

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bookmaven · 11 months

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THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, and Other Short Novels by William Hope Hodgson. (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946) Cover art by Hannes Bok. 3014 copy edition.

‘The House on the Borderland is unique in several ways. The narrative itself is a double-frame narrative: the editor of the volume is presenting a manuscript he found under mysterious circumstances, describing the account of two fishermen who themselves discovered a hand-written account of the cosmic haunting of a recluse’s remote home.

Additionally, the novel is one of the earliest examples of the departure of horror fiction from the Gothic style of supernatural, psychological hauntings, to more realist, science-fiction/cosmic horror themes. The recluse is, among other events, transported to a mysterious supra-universal plane populated by monsters and elder gods; and his house withstands assaults from legions of monsters as he travels across time and the solar system.

The book was very influential on H. P. Lovecraft, who himself was famous for the cosmic horror themes in his work. The concept of an uncaring, and even evil, universe that Lovecraft found so disturbing is front and center in this supremely strange novel.’

source [a newer print edition]

source [radio play]

source [audio from Libre Vox]

#book blog #books #books books books #book cover #horror #beautiful books #william hope hodgson #arkham horror #arkham house #hannes bok #cosmic horror #elder gods #radio play

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kekwcomics · 4 months

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MAGAZINE OF HORROR Vol. 6, No. 2 (#32) (Health Knowledge, 1970)

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howardia · 2 months

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Sons of CIMMERIA, here is a good source of rare Howard prints and ephemera; and a depot of other materials of the PULP GIANTS and MASTERS of the WEIRD!

#robert e. howard #rare books #vintage #sword and sorcery #clark ashton smith #h.p. lovecraft #weird tales #Arkham house

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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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Lot for Sale - art by Frank Utpatel (1974)

#frank utpatel #horror art #cover art #collected ghost stories #mary e. wilkins-freeman #lot for sale #ghosts #spirits #arkham house #seventies #1974

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strangeaeonbooks · 6 months

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~On the last day of horror... Happy Halloween!~

~A book bound in bird skin (ostrich) and the folks who carried on in Howard's stead~

#rare books #halloween countdown #happy halloween #books #book tumblr #bookworm #booklr #bird skin #Arkham House #book illustrations #fiction #horror #old wierd #bookstore #independant bookstores #bookstagram #reading #independant bookstore

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 2 years

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Ramsey Campbell - Demons By Daylight - Arkham House - 1973 (jacket illustration by Eddie Jones)

#witches #stories #occult #vintage #demons #daylight #arkham house #ramsey campbell #eddie jones #demons by daylight #1973

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uwmspeccoll · 2 years

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Science (Fiction) Saturday

This week, we present images from A Pictorial History of Science Fiction, by Science Fiction fan, writer, and publisher David Kyle, first published in 1976 by Hamlyn of London. It was typeset by Filmtype Services Ltd. of Scarborough, England, and printed in England by Sackville Press Billericay Ltd. Our copy is a second printing from 1977.

Kyle was the co-founder of Gnome Press with SF editor and publisher Martin Greenberg. Gnome operated from 1948 until 1962, publishing SF heavy hitters like Asimov, Heinlein, and Clark. Along with Sauk City, WI based Arkham House, Gnome was instrumental in demonstrating that there was a market for novel-length science fiction. However, they relied on mail-order sales and their inability to secure wider distribution left them unable to compete when better funded outfits entered the Science Fiction market, starting with Doubleday in 1950.

I remembered that I had set this book aside for a future post when flipping through our facsimile of Dürer's Apocalypse, printed by Eugrammia Press in 1964, so I was delighted to see that Kyle had evoked Dürer in tracing the lineage of science fictional imagery (see image three). While I personally don’t subscribe to the school of thought that characterizes things like the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, or the Sanskrit epic Rāmāyana as examples of early science fiction, I understand the impulses underlying this theory. Much in the way that it can be difficult to untangle early scientific inquiry from mysticism and spiritual exploration, the threads connecting contemporary science fiction to a sense of the fantastical that has existed in literature for millennia is just as strong as the link between SF and the modern scientific method.

See captions for image source information.

For more SF inspired Science Saturdays, check out our posts on our collection of Fantastic and Amazing Stories magazines.

View other Science Saturday posts here.

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Science Saturday #Science Fiction Saturday #Science Fiction #SF #SFF #A Pictorial History of Science Fiction #David Kyle #Hamlyn #Gnome Press #Arkham House #Dürer #Illustration #SF Illustration #SF Imagery #olivia

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hplovecraftmuseum · 1 year

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August W. Derleth (Feb. 24, 1909 - 1971) is perhaps the man most often associated with H.P. Lovecraft and 'his' Cthulhu Mythos. Derleth and Lovecraft corresponded by letter for many years until HPL's death in 1937. The two men never met! They almost certainly never communicated by telephone either. The 2 men NEVER wrote a single piece of fiction together during Lovecraft's lifetime. The 2 men did NOT discuss the particulars of Lovecraft's fictional background mythology on any significant level. We know that because we have their complete correspondence preserved in print. (Hippocampus Press has published a 2 volume set of their letters to each other) The term, Cthulhu Mythos DID NOT EXIST in Lovecraft's lifetime! Derleth did not rush to claim responsibility for its creation, but it has been reported that he did so eventually. Derleth has come under attack for what some believe was a dishonest attempt to present Lovecraft's literary legacy under a false light. Certainly Derleth made mistakes, but many of his failings have only become important in retrospect. Derleth was the real power behind ARKHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS, controlling and protecting Lovecraft's legacy, and promoting the works of many other writers in the horror/fantasy field. It's true that Derleth promoted the idea that he and Lovecraft were far closer than they really were. Lovecraft himself chose Robert Barlow and NOT August Derleth to be his literary executor. This choice was a fairly casual move on Lovecraft's part, however. Barlow left fiction writing after HPL's death. Derleth made a profession of writing and was on a far better position to promote Lovecraft's work from that position. The stories supposedly penned by both men together were mostly complete concoctions written by Derleth based on the merest lines and notes left behind by HPL. Nonetheless, Derleth worked hard to preserve and advance Lovecraft's work. He made mistakes, but who has not in any important endeavor? Without Derleth it is highly questionable that Lovecraft's postumous fame would be anything like it is today. Derleth never got rich promoting Lovecraft. Unfortunately he passed away just as the first major resurgence of interest in Lovecraft's fiction was building. The early 70s saw the rise of the Psychedellic era, interest in political conspiracies, and the extreme success of the book, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS. The time of Lovecraft was born, and August Derleth deserves much of the credit for it. ( Exhibit 211)

#lovecraft #arkham house #august derleth #cthulhu mythos #lovecraft's legacy

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arcanemoody · 1 year

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Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Gotham (TV), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Oswald Cobblepot & Fish Mooney, Butch Gilzean & Fish Mooney Characters: Fish Mooney, Butch Gilzean, Elijah Van Dahl, Oswald Cobblepot, Original Characters Additional Tags: Hospitals, Waiting Rooms, Blood and Injury, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Adopted Children Series: Part 3 of Arkham House Summary:

A chance meeting in the waiting room at Gotham General.

#my fic #my writing #college AU #arkham house #gotham #fish mooney #oswald cobblepot

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r1ddly · 1 year

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It's here! It's now the SPOOKY SCARECROW HOUSE!! Anything related to these will have It's own tag lmao

(Also these heads headshots would be great for stickers or charms)

#my art #spooky scarecrow house #dc #batman #batman fanart #dc fanart #jonathan crane #scarecrow #btas scarecrow #dc scarecrow #batman scarecrow #arkham knight scarecrow #fear state #year one scarecrow #nolanverse #cillian murphy scarecrow #gotham

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weirdlookindog · 5 months

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Frank Utpatel - The Pigeon Flyer

illustration for Collected Poems of H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham House, 1963.

#frank utpatel #h. p. lovecraft #the pigeon flyer #arkham house #horror art #lovecraftian horror #art #illustration

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bookmaven · 11 months

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NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS by Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947) 3084 copies. A collection of 8 weird tales and 2 heroic fantasies, and the author’s first book. Cover by Ronald Clyne.

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Smoke Ghost

The Automatic Pistol

The Inheritance / The Phantom Slayed

The Hill and the Hole

The Dreams of Albert Moreland

The Hound / Diary in the Snow

The Man Who Never Grew Young

The Sunken Land

Adept's Gambit

#book blog #books #books books books #book cover #horror #heroic fantasy #fritz leiber #arkham house #ronald clyne

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kekwcomics · 1 year

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H P LOVECRAFT "DAGON AND OTHER MACABRE TALES" (Arkham House, 1965)

From my own collection.

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dailybatjokes · 2 months

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Day 45 of daily batjokes:

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Joker: "Loosen up, Tight Ass!"

#day 45 #Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth #dailybatjokes #batjokes #batman #joker #joker x batman #dc comics #batman x joker

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skye707 · 1 year

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I like to imagine when there's like playdates with the scarecrows and riddlers we've got them on leashes and they're socializing like dogs LMAO

Like I'm over here here and I've got Nolanverse and fear state with leashes Like "yeah man they don't bite, they're friendly" I am lying they do bite and they bite hard LMAO

As I said, playdates are my forte.

When you sent me this, I was overjoyed.

Bless you for giving me this evil task 💙

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