Part 2

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP, by H. P. Lovecraft. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1943. pp. xxix., 458. $5.00. 1,217 copies printed. Contents: _By Way of Introduction_, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei / _Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity_ / _The Commonplace Book_ / _History and Chronology of the_ Necronomicon / _Memory_ / _What the Moon Brings_ / _Nyarlathotep_ / _Ex Oblivione_ / _The Tree_ / _The Other Gods_ / _The Quest of Iranon_ / _The Doom That Came to Sarnath_ / _The White Ship_ / _From Beyond_ / _Beyond the Wall of Sleep_ / _The Unnamable_ / _The Hound_ / _The Moon-Bog_ / _The Evil Clergyman_ / _Herbert West--Reanimator_ / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_ / _The Case of Charles Dexter Ward_ / _The Crawling Chaos_ (with Elizabeth Berkeley) / _The Green Meadow_ (with Elizabeth Berkeley) / _The Curse of Yig_, by Zealia Brown-Reed / _The Horror in the Museum_, by Hazel Heald / _Out of the Eons_, by Hazel Heald / _The Mound_, by Zealia Brown-Reed / _The Diary of Alonzo Typer_, by William Lumley / _The Challenge from Beyond_ (with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long) / _In the Walls of Eryx_ (with Kenneth Sterling) / _Ibid_ / _Sweet Ermengarde_ / _Providence_ / _On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park_ / _Old Christmas_ / _New England Fallen_ / _On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight_ / _Astrophobos_ / _Sunset_ / _A Year Off_ / _A Summer Sunset and Evening_ / _To Mistress Sophia Simple,_ _Queen of the Cinema_ / _The Ancient Track_ / _The Eidolon_ / _The Nightmare Lake_ / _The Outpost_ / _The Rutted Road_ / _The Wood_ / _Hallowe’en in a Suburb_ / _Primavera_ / _October_ / _To a Dreamer_ / _Despair_ / _Nemesis_ / _Psychopompos_ / _The Book_ / _Pursuit_ / _The Key_ / _Recognition_ / _Homecoming_ / _The Lamp_ / _Zaman’s Hill_ / _The Port_ / _The Courtyard_ / _The Pigeon-Flyers_ / _The Well_ / _The Howler_ / _Hesperia_ / _Star-Winds_ / _Antarktos_ / _The Window_ / _A Memory_ / _The Gardens of Yin_ / _The Bells_ / _Night-Gaunts_ / _Nyarlathotep_ / _Azathoth_ / _Mirage_ / _The Canal_ / _St. Toad’s_ / _The Familiars_ / _The Elder Pharos_ / _Expectancy_ / _Nostalgia_ / _Background_ / _The Dweller_ / _Alienation_ / _Harbour Whistles_ / _Recapture_ / _Evening Star_ / _Continuity_ / _Yule Horror_ / _To Mr. Finlay_ / _To Clark Ashton Smith_ / _Where Once Poe Walked_ / _Christmas Greeting to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell_ / _Brick Row_ / _The Messenger_ / _The Cthulhu Mythology: a Glossary_, by Francis T. Laney / _An Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft_, by W. Paul Cook.

THE EYE AND THE FINGER, by Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. xiii., 344. $3.00. 1,617 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_ / _The Lady in Gray_ / _The Eye and the Finger_ / _The Painted Mirror_ / _It Will Grow on You_ / _The Tree-Men of M’Bwa_ / _The Lives of Alfred Kramer_ / _The Monster from Nowhere_ / _The Witch-Makers_ / _The Nerveless Man_ / _Black Fog_ / _The Blinding Shadows_ / _A Scientist Divides_ / _Earth Minus_ / _Finality Unlimited_ / _The Crystal Bullet_ / _A Fragment of a Dream_ / _The Woman at the Window_ / _The Messengers_ / _The Pursuers_ / _The Red Brain_ / _On the Threshold of Eternity_.

JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES, by Henry S. Whitehead. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. xii., 394. $3.00. 1,559 copies printed. Contents: _Henry S. Whitehead_, by R. H. Barlow / _Jumbee_ / _Cassius_ / _Black Tancrède_ / _The Shadows_ / _Sweet Grass_ / _The Black Beast_ / _Seven Turns in a Hangman’s Rope_ / _The Tree-Man_ / _Passing of a God_ / _Mrs. Lorriquer_ / _Hill Drums_ / _The Projection of Armand Dubois_ / _The Lips_ / _The Fireplace_.

LOST WORLDS, by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. 419. $3.00. 2,043 copies printed. Contents: _The Tale of Satampra Zeiros_ / _The Door to Saturn_ / _The Seven Geases_ / _The Coming of the White Worm_ / _The Last Incantation_ / _A Voyage to Sfanomoë_ / _The Death of Malygris_ / _The Holiness of Azédarac_ / _The Beast of Averoigne_ / _The Empire of the Necromancers_ / _The Isle of the Torturers_ / _Necromancy in Naat_ / _Xeethra_ / _The Maze of Maal Dweb_ / _The Flower-Women_ / _The Demon of the Flower_ / _The Plutonian Drug_ / _The Planet of the Dead_ / _The Gorgon_ / _The Letter from Mohaun Los_ / _The Light from Beyond_ / _The Hunters from Beyond_ / _The Treader of the Dust_.

MARGINALIA, by H. P. Lovecraft. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1944. pp. x., 377. 2,035 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei / _Imprisoned With the Pharaohs_, by Houdini / _Medusa’s Coil_, by Zealia Brown (Reed) Bishop / _Winged Death_, by Hazel Heald / _The Man of Stone_, by Hazel Heald / _Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction_ / _Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction_ / _Lord Dunsany and His Work_ / _Heritage or Modernism; Common Sense in Art Forms_ / _Some Backgrounds of Fairyland_ / _Some Causes of Self-Immolation_ / _A Guide to Charleston, South Carolina_ / _Observations on Several Parts of North America_ / _The Beast in the Cave_ / _The Transition of Juan Romero_ / _Azathoth_ / _The Book_ / _The Descendant_ / _The Very Old Folk_ / _The Thing in the Moonlight_ / _Two Comments_ / _His Own Most Fantastic Creation_, by Winfield Townley Scott / _Some Random Memories of H. P. L._, by Frank Belknap Long / _H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation_, by T. O. Mabbott / _The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H. P. Lovecraft in Florida_, by R. H. Barlow / _Lovecraft and Science_, by Kenneth Sterling / _Lovecraft as a Formative Influence_, by August Derleth / _The Dweller in Darkness_, by Donald Wandrei / _To Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _H. P. L._, by Henry Kuttner / _Lost Dream_, by Emil Petaja / _To Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Francis Flagg / _H. P. Lovecraft_, by Frank Belknap Long / _Elegy: In Providence the Spring ...,_, by August Derleth / _For the Outsider: H. P. Lovecraft_, by Charles E. White / _In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft_, by Richard Ely Morse. With illustrations, photographs, drawings by Lovecraft, and reproduction of _Lament for H. P. L._, by Alfred Galpin.

SOMETHING NEAR, by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 274. 2,054 copies printed. Contents: _A Thin Gentleman with Gloves_ / _Mr. Ames’ Devil_ / _A Wig for Miss Devore_ / _Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind_ / _Pacific 421_ / _Headlines for Tod Shayne_ / _No Light for Uncle Henry_ / _Lansing’s Luxury_ / _Carousel_ / _Lady Macbeth of Pimley Square_ / _Here, Daemos!_ / _McElwin’s Glass_ / _An Elegy for Mr. Danielson_ / _The Satin Mask_ / _Motive_ / _The Metronome_ / _The Inverness Cape_ / _The Thing That Walked on the Wind_ / _Ithaqua_ / _Beyond the Threshold_ / _The Dweller in Darkness_.

THE OPENER OF THE WAY, by Robert Bloch. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. xi., 309. $3.00. 2,065 copies printed. Contents: _By Way of Introduction_ / _The Cloak_ / _Beetles_ / _The Fiddler’s Fee_ / _The Mannikin_ / _The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton_ / _Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper_ / _The Seal of the Satyr_ / _The Dark Demon_ / _The Faceless God_ / _The House of the Hatchet_ / _The Opener of the Way_ / _Return to the Sabbath_ / _The Mandarin’s Canaries_ / _Waxworks_ / _The Feast in the Abbey_ / _Slave of the Flames_ / _The Shambler from the Stars_ / _Mother of Serpents_ / _The Secret of Sebek_ / _The Eyes of the Mummy_ / _One Way to Mars_.

WITCH HOUSE, by Evangeline Walton. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 200. $2.50. 2,949 copies printed.

GREEN TEA AND OTHER GHOST STORIES, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. x., 357. $3.00. 2,026 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by August Derleth / _Schalken the Painter_ / _Squire Toby’s Will_ / _Green Tea_ / _Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling_ / _Carmilla_ / _The Sexton’s Adventure_ / _Madam Crowl’s Ghost_ / _Sir Dominick’s Bargain_ / _The Vision of Tom Chuff_ / _Ultor De Lacy_ / _Dickon the Devil_ / _The House in Aungier Street_ / _Mr. Justice Harbottle_ / _The Familiar_.

THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1945. pp. 196. $2.50. 3,041 copies printed.

THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap Long. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 316. $3.00. 2,602 copies printed. Contents: _A Visitor from Egypt_ / _The Refugees_ / _Fisherman’s Luck_ / _Death-Waters_ / _Grab Bags Are Dangerous_ / _The Elemental_ / _The Peeper_ / _Bridgehead_ / _Second Night Out_ / _The Dark Beasts_ / _Census Taker_ / _The Ocean Leech_ / _The Space-Eaters_ / _It Will Come to You_ / _A Stitch in Time_ / _Step into My Garden_ / _The Hounds of Tindalos_ / _Dark Vision_ / _The Flame Midget_ / _Golden Child_ / _The Black Druid_.

THE DOLL AND ONE OTHER, by Algernon Blackwood. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 138. $1.50. 3,490 copies printed. Contents: _The Doll_ / _The Trod_.

THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS, by William Hope Hodgson. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xi., 639. $5.00. 3,014 copies printed. Contents: _William Hope Hodgson, Master of the Weird and Fantastic_, by H. C. Koenig / _The Boats of the “Glen Carrig”_ / _The House on the Borderland_ / _The Ghost Pirates_ / _The Night Land_ / _Bibliography_, by A. Langley Searles.

SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS, by Robert E. Howard. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. x., 475. $5.00. 3,004 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_, by August Derleth / _Which Will Scarcely Be Understood_ / _Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam_, by H. P. Lovecraft / _A Memory of R. E. Howard_, by E. Hoffmann Price / _Wolfshead_ / _The Black Stone_ / _The Horror from the Mound_ / _The Cairn on the Headland_ / _Black Canaan_ / _The Fire of Asshurbanipal_ / _A Man-Eating Jeopard_ / _Skull-Face_ / _The Hyborian Age_ / _Worms of the Earth_ / _The Valley of the Worm_ / _Skulls in the Stars_ / _Rattle of Bones_ / _The Hills of the Dead_ / _Wings in the Night_ / _The Shadow Kingdom_ / _The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune_ / _Kings of the Night_ / _The Phoenix on the Sword_ / _The Scarlet Citadel_ / _The Tower of the Elephant_ / _Rogues in the House_ / _Shadows in Zamboula_ / _Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die_.

WEST INDIA LIGHTS, by Henry S. Whitehead. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 367. $3.00. 3,037 copies printed. Contents: _Black Terror_ / _West India Lights_ / “_Williamson_” / _The Shut Room_ / _The Left Eye_ / _Tea Leaves_ / _The Trap_ / _The Napier Limousine_ / _The Ravel_ Pavane / _Sea Change_ / _The_ _People of Pan_ / _The Chadbourne Episode_ / _Scar Tissue_ / “--_In Case of Disaster Only_” / _Bothon_ / _The Great Circle_ / _Obi in the Caribbean_.

FEARFUL PLEASURES, by A. E. Coppard. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xiii., 301. $3.00. 4,033 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_ / _Adam and Eve and Pinch Me_ / _Clorinda Walks in Heaven_ / _The Elixir of Youth_ / _Simple Simon_ / _Old Martin_ / _The Bogie Man_ / _Polly Morgan_ / _The Gollan_ / _The Post Office and the Serpent_ / _Crotty Shinkwin_ / _Ahoy, Sailor Boy!_ / _Gone Away_ / _Rocky and the Bailiff_ / _Ale Celestial?_ /_The Fair Young Willowy Tree_ / _Father Raven_ / _The Drum_ / _Cheese_ / _The Homeless One_ / _The Kisstruck Bogie_ / _The Tiger_ / _The Gruesome Fit_.

THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE, by H. Russell Wakefield. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. xi., 248. $3.00. 4,040 copies printed. Contents: _Why I Write Ghost Stories_ / _Into Outer Darkness_ / _The Alley_ / _Jay Walkers_ / _Ingredient X_ / “_I Recognized the Voice_” / _Farewell Performance_ / _Not Quite Cricket_ / _In Collaboration_ / _A Stitch in Time_ / _Lucky’s Grove_ / _Red Feathers_ / _Happy Ending?_ / _The First Sheaf_ / _Masrur_ / _A Fishing Story_ / _Used Car_ / _Death of a Poacher_ / _Knock! Knock! Who’s There?_

SLAN, by A. E. Van Vogt. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946. pp. 216. $2.50. 4,051 copies printed.

THIS MORTAL COIL, by Cynthia Asquith. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 245. $3.00. 2,609 copies printed. Contents: _In a Nutshell_ / _The White Moth_ / _The Corner Shop_ / “_God Grante That She Lye Stille_” / _The Playfellow_ / _The Nurse Never Told_ / _The Lovely Voice_ / _The First Night_ / _The Follower_.

DARK OF THE MOON: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre, edited by August Derleth. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. xvi., 418. $3.00. 2,634 copies printed. Contents: _Introduction_, by August Derleth / _The Twa Corbies_ / _A Lyke-Wake Direg_ / _William and Marjorie_ / _The Wee Wee Man_ / _The Wife of Usher’s Well_ / _Fair Eleanor_, by William Blake / _Address to the Deil_, _Tam o’ Shanter_, _Death and Doctor Hornbook_, by Robert Burns / _Kilmeny_, by James Hogg / _The Eve of St. John_, by Sir Walter Scott / _Kubla Khan_, _Phantom_, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / _The Lake of the Dismal Swamp_, by Thomas Moore / _The Hand of Glory_, by Richard Harris Barham / _The Erl King_, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / _La Belle Dame Sans Merci_, by John Keats / _The Haunted House_, _The Dream of Eugene Aram_, _Pompey’s Ghost_, _The Ghost_, by Thomas Hood / _The Phantom-Wooer_, _The Ghosts’ Moonshine_, by Thomas Lovell Beddoes / _The Phantom Ship_, _The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi_, _The Ghosts_, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / _The Raven_, _Dream-Land_, _Ulalume_, by Edgar Allan Poe / _Rizpah_, by Alfred Lord Tennyson / _A Lowland Witch Ballad_, by William Bell Scott / _The Legend of the Glaive_, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu / _The Weird Lady_, _The Sands of Dee_, by Charles Kingsley / _Keith of Ravelston_, by Sydney Thompson Dobell / _The Witch Bride_, _The Fairies_, by William Allingham / _The Flying Dutchman_, by Charles Godfrey Leland / _The Lost Steamship_, _The Three Gannets_, _The Demon of the Gibbet_, by Fitz-James O’Brien / _Sister Helen_, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti / _Goblin Market_, _The Ghost’s Petition_, by Christina Rossetti / _The City of Dreadful Night_, by James Thomson / _The Wind_, by William Morris / _The Highwayman’s Ghost_, by Richard Garnett / _The Ballad of Judas Iscariot_, by Robert Buchanan / _The Song of the Ghost_, by A. P. Graves / _A Glimpse of Pan_, _The Witch of Erkmurden_, by James Whitcomb Riley / _A Windy Night_, _Roads_, _An April Ghost_, _Bitters_, by Lizette Woodworth Reese / _The True Lover_, by A. E. Housman / _Lazarus_, by José Asunción Silva / _All Souls’ Night_, _The Fair Little Maiden_, _The Fetch_, _The Fairy Thorn-Tree_, by Dora Sigerson Shorter / _Luke Havergal_, by Edwin Arlington Robinson / _The Superstitious Ghost_, by Arthur Guiterman / _The Listeners_, _The Little Green Orchard_, _The Ghost_, by Walter de la Mare / _A Dracula of the Hills_, _The Paper in the Gate-Legged Table_, _Haunted_, by Amy Lowell / _The Witch of Coös_, by Robert Frost / _The Little Dead Child_, by Josephine Daskam Bacon / _Dave Lilly_, by Joyce Kilmer / _The Sorceress of the Moon_, by William Rose Benet / _221B_, _Changeling_, _Visitation_, _Legend_, _Gooseflesh_, _Extraordinary Visit_, _Sea Story_, by Vincent Starrett / _Lonesome Water_, _Old Christmas_, by Roy Helton / _Psychopompos_, _Fungi from Yuggoth_ (_The Book_, _Pursuit_, _The Key_, _Recognition_, _Homecoming_, _The Lamp_, _Zaman’s Hill_, _The Port_, _The_ _Courtyard_, _The Pigeon-Flyers_, _The Well_, _The Howler_, _Hesperia_, _Star-Winds_, _Antarktos_, _The Window_, _A Memory_, _The Gardens of Yin_, _The Bells_, _Night-Gaunts_, _Nyarlathotep_, _Azathoth_, _Mirage_, _The Canal_, _St. Toad’s_, _The Familiars_, _The Elder Pharos_, _Expectancy_, _Nostalgia_, _Background_, _The Dweller_, _Alienation_, _Harbour Whistles_, _Recapture_, _Evening Star_, _Continuity_), _The Messenger_, _The Ancient Track_, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft / _The Warning_, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin / _The Eldritch Dark_, _Warning_, _The Hashish-Eater_, _Nightmare_, _Outlanders_, _Nyctalops_, _Shadows_, _The Envoys_, _Fantaisie d’Antan_, _In Thessaly_, _Resurrection_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Owls_, by Timeus Gaylord / _The Orchard Ghost_, by Mark Van Doren / _Werewolf_, by Arthur Inman / _Metropolitan Nightmare_, _Nightmare Number Three_, by Stephen Vincent Benét / _The Goblin Tower_, _In Mayan Splendor_, _Sonnet_, _A Knight of La Mancha_, _On Reading Arthur Machen_, _The Abominable Snow Men_, _The Horror on Dagoth Wold_, by Frank Belknap Long / _Just Then the Door_, by Merrill Moore / _Forgetful Hour_, _The Specter’s Tale_, _The Haunted Stairs_, by Yetza Gillespie / _The Snake_, _The Dreamer in the Desert_, by Francis Flagg / _Strange_, _Forest God_, _Tree Woman_, _The Wolves of Egremont_, by Dorothy Quick / _The Harp of Alfred_, _Futility_, _The Singer in the Mist_, _Solomon Kane’s Homecoming_, _Moon Mockery_, _The King and the Oak_, _Recompense_, _Always Comes Evening_, _The Ghost Kings_, _The Last Hour_, _Which Will Scarcely Be Understood_, _Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die_, by Robert Ervin Howard / _Sonnets of the Midnight Hours_ (_After Sleep_, _Purple_, _The Hungry Flowers_, _The Eye_, _The Torturers_, _The Statues_, _The Old Companions_, _The Head_, _In the Attic_, _The Cocoon_, _The Metal God_, _The Little Creature_, _The Pool_, _The Prey_, _The Rack_, _Escape_, _Capture_, _In the Pit_, _The Bell_, _The Ultimate Vision_), by Donald Wandrei / _Weldon House_, _Lois Malone_, _Ted Birkett_, _Bart Hinch_, _The Shores of Night_, _Man at the Window_, _Stranger in the Night_, _Mark of Man--Mark of Beast_, by August Derleth / _Sonnet of the Unsleeping Dead_, by Anthony Boucher / _Fox Hunters of Hell_, by Byron Herbert Reece / _Dreams of Yith_, by Duane W. Rimel / _Nostalgia_, _Echidna_, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman / _Changeling_, _Wood Wife_, _In the Shadows_, _The Path Through the Marsh_, _The Tenants_, _All-Saints’ Eve_, _The Ballad of the Jabberwock_, _Heard on the Roof at Midnight_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Wayfarers_, _Two Hunters_, by Harvey Wagner Flink / _Star Gazer_, _Death at Sea_, _The Goats of Juan Fernandez_, by Coleman Rosenberger.

DARK CARNIVAL, by Ray Bradbury. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 313. $3.00. 3,112 copies printed. Contents: _The Homecoming_ / _Skeleton_ / _The Jar_ / _The Lake_ / _The Maiden_ / _The Tombstone_ / _The Smiling People_ / _The Emissary_ / _The Traveler_ / _The Small Assassin_ / _The Crowd_ / _Reunion_ / _The Handler_ / _The Coffin_ / _Interim_ / _Jack-in-the-Box_ / _The Scythe_ / _Let’s Play “Poison”_ / _Uncle Einar_ / _The Wind_ / _The Night_ / _There Was an Old Woman_ / _The Dead Man_ / _The Man Upstairs_ / _The Night Sets_ / _Cistern_ / _The Next in Line_.

REVELATIONS IN BLACK, by Carl Jacobi. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. 272. $3.00. 3,082 copies printed. Contents: _Revelations in Black_ / _Phantom Brass_ / _The Cane_ / _The Coach on the Ring_ / _The Kite_ / _Canal_ / _The Satanic Piano_ / _The Last Drive_ / _The Spectral Pistol_ / _Sagasta’s Last_ / _The Tomb from Beyond_ / _The Digging at Pistol Key_ / _Moss Island_ / _Carnaby’s Fish_ / _The King and the Knave_ / _Cosmic Teletype_ / _A Pair of Swords_ / _A Study in Darkness_ / _Mive_ / _Writing on the Wall_ / _The Face in the Wind_.

NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947. pp. x., 237. $3.00. 3,084 copies printed. Contents: _Foreword_ / _Smoke Ghost_ / _The Automatic Pistol_ / _The Inheritance_ / _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_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number One: Winter, 1948. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _Messrs. Turkes and Talbot_, by H. Russell Wakefield / _History and Chronology of the Necromicon_, by H. P. Lovecraft. Together with some pertinent paragraphs by August Derleth / _Lamia_, _The Nameless Wraith_, _The City of Destruction_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Little Anthology_, edited by Malcolm Ferguson / _Mara_, by Stephen Grendon / _A Hornbook for Witches_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Checklist: The_ _Carvings of Clark Ashton Smith_ / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_, Part I, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Two Novels and an Anthology_, _From the Fan Presses_, _The Shasta Checklist_, by August Derleth / _Through a Glass Darkly_, _A Thorne off the Old Smith_, by Robert Bloch / _Three Anthologies_, by John Haley / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number Two: Spring, 1948. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _A Damsel with a Dulcimer_, by Malcolm Ferguson / _Hellenic Sequel_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Group of Letters_, by H. P. Lovecraft / _The Blindness of Orion_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _West Country Legends_, collected by Robert Hunt / _The Wind in the Lilacs_, by Stephen Grendon / _Unhappy Ending_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Fantasy on the March_, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. / _On the Cthulhu Mythos_, by George T. Wetzel / _On “The Lurker at the Threshold”_, by August Derleth / _From a Letter_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Memoir of Lovecraft_, by Rheinhart Kleiner / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_, Part 2, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Ghosts in Great Britain_, _The Macabre in Pictures_, by August Derleth / _Top-Notch Science Fiction_, by John Haley / “_Deliver Us from Evil_”, by Robert Bloch / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number Three: Summer, 1948. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _A Kink in Space-Time_, by H. Russell Wakefield / _Night in the City_, by Geraldine Wolf / _The_ _Novels of M. P. Shiel_, by A. Reynolds Morse / _No Stranger Dream_, _On the Mount of Stone_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Loved Dead_, by C. M. Eddy, Jr. / _Howard Phillips Lovecraft_, by Samuel Loveman / _A Letter to E. Hoffmann Price_, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Old Wives’ Tale_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Strangers from Hesperus_, by Norman Markham / _Further West Country Legends_, collected by Robert Hunt / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_, Part 3, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Dr. Keller’s Stories_, by John Haley / _Wit and Satire_, _Studies in Murder_, by August Derleth / _Gremlins_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.

THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, 1948, Volume I, Number Four: Autumn, 1948. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1948. pp. 100. $1.00. 1,200 copies printed. Contents: _The Sign_, by Lord Dunsany / _Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight_, by August Derleth / _A Note on Aubrey Beardsley_, by Malcolm Ferguson / _Only to One Returned_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _A Spell Useful Near Water_, by Peter Viereck / _Nut Bush Farm_, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell / _The Unknown Land_, by Leah Bodine Drake / _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_, Conclusion, by H. P. Lovecraft / _Change of Heart_, by Robert Bloch / _Anterior Life_, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Clark Ashton Smith / _The Machen Collection_, _Books of Magical Lore_, by August Derleth / _John Campbell’s Stories_, by John Haley / “_The World Is My Idea_,” by Robert Bloch / _A Cosmic Novel_, by Clark Ashton Smith / _Short Notices_ / _Editorial Commentary_.