ARKHAM HOUSE: THE FIRST 20 YEARS 1939-1959 Though it was not immediately foreseen, Arkham House had its inception in the death of Howard Phillips Lovecraft on March 15, 1937. The first word of Lovecraft’s death came in a letter from the late Howard Wandrei, then in New York, a letter I read on my way into the marshes below Sauk City, where I had intended to spend an afternoon reading Thoreau’s _Journal_. Instead, I sat at a railroad trestle beside the brook and considered ways and means of putting together Lovecraft’s best works and bringing them out in book form.…
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