Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.

It was originated either by Lovecraft himself or by his protégé August Derleth, who first published many of Lovecraft's works.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Price's dichotomy dictates the second stage commenced with August Derleth, the principal difference between Lovecraft and Derleth being the latter's use of hope and that the Cthulhu mythos essentially represented a struggle between good and evil.

Derleth expanded the boundaries of the Mythos by including any passing reference to another author's story elements by Lovecraft as part of the genre: just as Lovecraft made passing reference to Clark Ashton Smith's Book of Eibon, Derleth in turn added Smith's Ubbo-Sathla to the Mythos.

Lovecraft, Derleth published the first of several major collections of Smith's fiction, Out of Space and Time ( 1942 ).

The term " Cthulhu Mythos " was coined by Lovecraft's correspondent and fellow author, August Derleth, after Lovecraft's death ; Lovecraft jocularly referred to his artificial mythology as " Yog-Sothothery ".

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

Lovecraft protégés and part owners of Arkham House, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, often claimed copyrights over Lovecraft's works.

Writer August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft and co-creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, placed R ' lyeh at.

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.

Lovecraft never made a connection between Hastur and " Him Who Is Not to Be Named "; Derleth was the one to do so.

* H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth – The Lurker at the Threshold

Occasionally the magazine would publish Lovecraftian pastiches presented as pieces of " lost " Lovecraft completed by his self-appointed literary executor August Derleth, who also wrote fiction for the magazine under his own name.

In the latter-day Cthulhu Mythos, developed by August Derleth and other Lovecraft imitators, the Yellow Sign is the sign of Hastur and is used by members of his cult to identify one another.

The town was used as a setting by August Derleth in his posthumous " collaborations " with Lovecraft, notably in " The Shuttered Room " ( 1959 ).

Long was also part of the loosely associated " Lovecraft Circle " of fantasy writers ( along with Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Clark Ashton Smith, C. M. Eddy, Jr., and Donald Wandrei ) who corresponded regularly with each other and influenced and critiqued each other's works.

* Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth ( 2 volumes ) ( with David E. Schultz, 2008 ).

In 1942, three years after August Derleth founded Arkham House for the purpose of preserving the work of H. P.

August Derleth, an older and more established writer than Barlow, vied for control of the literary estate.

In the science fiction anthology Far Boundaries ( 1951 ), the editor August Derleth identifies the short story " Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism ", written for the Dublin Literary Magazine by an anonymous author in 1838, as a very early time travel story.

At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the Massachusetts locales of Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them to English settings in and around the fictional Gloucestershire city of Brichester, near the River Severn, creating his own Severn Valley milieu for Lovecraftian horrors.

Derleth wrote in 1970, " he fact is that in no single year since its founding have the earnings of Arkham House met the expenses, so that it has been necessary for my personal earnings to shore up Arkham House finances.

Though Derleth and Jacobi corresponded for 40 years thereafter, Jacobi saw him but a few times in St Paul and never visited Derleth's home of Sauk City, Wisconsin.

Over the following summer, when Derleth worked briefly as an editor for Fawcett Publications, outside Minneapolis, the three men frequently got together for barnstorming sessions.

Forthcoming works ( some of which are discussed on Joshi's blog at his official website-see below ) also include Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction ( to be published in two volumes, 2011 & 2012 by PS Publishing ); Encyclopedia of the Vampire ( Greenwood Press ); Horror Fiction Index ; a three-volume edition of the letters of Ambrose Bierce ; bibliographies of William Hope Hodgson ( with Sam Gafford and Mike Ashley ) and of Clark Ashton Smith ; The White People and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Machen ( for Penguin Classics ); Essential Writings by Ambrose Bierce ( Library of America, forthcoming 2011 ); a comprehensive bibliography of Ray Bradbury ( with Jon Eller ); a revised / updated edition of the Ramsey Campbell bibliography The Core of Ramsey Campbell ; and an edition of the correspondence between Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth.

She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award ( also known as the August Derleth Award ), for her book Death's Master ( 1980 ).

It cannot be said, however, that Solar Pons is merely Sherlock Holmes with the name changed, for the important reason that Sherlock Holmes also exists in Pons ' world: Pons and Parker are aware of the famous detective and hold him in high regard, but whereas Holmes ' adventures took place primarily in the 1880s and 1890s, Pons and Parker live in the 1920s and 1930s ( when Derleth began writing the Pons stories.

Copper also edited the Pons stories of August Derleth for Arkham House under the title The Solar Pons Omnibus ( 2 vols, 1982 ) but made extensive edits in the stories.

Lovecraft was quite critical of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, writing to August Derleth that the story " has all the defects I deplore — especially in point of style, where hackneyed phrases & rhythms have crept in despite all precautions .... No — I don't intend to offer ' The Shadow over Innsmouth ' for publication, for it would stand no chance of acceptance.

The story was rejected by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright when Derleth surreptitiously submitted it for publication in 1933.

* In the science fiction anthology Far Boundaries ( 1951 ), the editor August Derleth identifies the short story Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism, written for the Dublin University Magazine by an anonymous author in 1838, as a very early time travel story.

He did, however, correspond regularly with other contemporary writers, such as Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth, people who became good friends of his, even though they never met in person.

According to the Church of Satan historiography, other LaVey associates from this time include noted Science Fiction and Horror writers Anthony Boucher, August Derleth, Robert Barbour Johnson, Reginald Bretnor, Emil Petaja, Stuart Palmer, Clark Ashton Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber Jr.

Most of her development as a literary figure was carried out by other Mythos authors, including August Derleth, Robert Bloch and Ramsey Campbell.

In the writings of Derleth and a few other latter-day Cthulhu Mythos authors, the King in Yellow is an Avatar of Hastur, so named because of his appearance as a thin, floating man covered in tattered yellow robes.

She met a number of other science fiction enthusiasts, including Robert Bloch, Willy Ley, and August Derleth ; and claims that Harlan Ellison, " this bespectacled young man who had just sold his first short story ", " decided he liked me and proposed on the spot.

Thereafter, these texts and others appear in the works of numerous other Mythos authors ( who themselves added their own grimoires to the literary arcana ), including August Derleth, Lin Carter, Brian Lumley, and Ramsey Campbell.

August Derleth, Lovecraft's friend and literary executor, discouraged other Cthulhu Mythos writers from setting their stories in Lovecraft's New England.

On hearing that he had no plans to write more Holmes stories, the young Derleth wrote to Conan Doyle, asking permission to take over the job.

Beaumont tells Alex to visit a folklore professor named Wendy Derleth ( Jenny O ' Hara ) to find out more about Ahura Mazda and the gem.

Conan Doyle graciously declined the offer, but Derleth, despite having never been to London, set about finding a name that was syllabically reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, and wrote his first set of pastiches.