Arkham House

My understanding is that initially Lovecraft calls them bholes, and then in 1943, when Derleth finally publishes Dream-Quest, he changes it to dhole for whatever reason.

And for a long time, it was those Arkham House editions which were the standard texts.

The game picked up the spelling dhole from there, but then around fifth edition...

And I, I got a letter, I think, from Charlie Krank.

... and strange stories and all that type of thing.

And Valley of the Worm I think was in an Arkham House collection too called, uh, Skull-Face, uh, Skull-Face and Others, whereas I've got the paperback, I think a Panther paperback called Skull-Face somewhere.

Mm.

I think comparison wise, it doesn't have the SF overtones of the Errick Erre stories because, I mean, Howard's passions are slightly different Aren't they?

Longer story, so fair play.

About three grand in today's money.

Later appeared in the Arkham House anthology, The Dark Man and Others in 1963.

And much like Valley of the Worm, a bazillion other collections since, including that 2024 Swords of the North collection by the, uh, the Robert E. Howard Society, I think have done that most recent collection.

Yeah.

I guess if you really want to find the Lovecraft mode, you can also just go to the Arkham House Wikipedia page and look at who they published.

Because you just want to find a lot of those, that kind of idea.

Obviously Clark Ashton Smith and Arthur Macon and Frank Belknap Long and so on.

We were joking about industrial complexes earlier.

Absolutely, there's a Lovecraft industrial complex at this point, right? And there's an expectation that you're going to be writing horror of some...

breed um if you're participating if you're trying to get your work posted to arkham house or something like that right

well and especially within games like and i'm thinking of the ubiquitous arkham board games as well which are like so well defined i wouldn't even call them weird at this point you know like no it's a trope it's it's a lovecraft shaped thing and it's very recognizable and has that green on the color and you know and away you go basically