Re: Arkham House vs. Nightshade vs. Ballantine
Posted by:
wilum pugmire (IP Logged)
Date: 18 December, 2012 01:46PM
Fedogan and Bremer have returned to life, and for me their books come closest to "feeling" like the old Arkham House books. Bob Price has edited a recent Cthulhu Mythos anthology for them, and S. T. Joshi is editing SEARCHERS AFTER HORROR for them, which he insists will not have a Lovecraftian theme (although I've just sold a very Lovecraftian tale to the book).
The only Arkham House CAS I have is POEMS IN PROSE, a beautiful edition that I HAD to own. There is something very special about the old Arkham House editions, and I think they deserve that special fondness that so many of us have for them. They are lovely books, with usually wonderful jackets. The frustrating thing for me, concerning CAS and Arkham House, is that he was either too ill or to lethargic to work with Derleth on the volumes by supplying definitive texts &c. I wish I knew more about Smith's relationship with Arkham House and Derleth, I think it must be a fascinating history. How I ache for a definitive Clark Ashton Smith biography.
"I'm a little girl."
--H. P. Lovecraft, Esq.