Editing Arkham House (section)

== Operation ==

August Derleth's children April (Rose) and Walden (Wally) Derleth now co-owned the publisher, April running the business while Wally had no direct involvement in its day-to-day operations. April earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977. She became majority stockholder, President, and CEO of Arkham House in 1994, in which capacity she remained until her death.

Wandrei was succeeded as editorial director by [[Jim Turner (editor)|James Turner]]. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Turner expanded the company's range of authors to include such prominent science fiction and fantasy writers as [[Michael Bishop (author)|Michael Bishop]], [[Lucius Shepard]], [[Bruce Sterling]], [[James Tiptree, Jr.]], [[Michael Shea (author)|Michael Shea]] and [[J. G. Ballard]], often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works. Turner's acquisitions took the publisher away from its roots in weird and horror fiction, and he was eventually dismissed by April Derleth in 1997. He went on to found [[Golden Gryphon Press]].

In 1997 [[Peter Ruber]] was appointed as her consulting editor and successor to James Turner. April became president of Arkham House in 2002. She made the house's mission a return to classic weird fiction, which Ruber sought to do. Ruber drew criticism<ref>{{cite web|title=THE LOVECRAFT EXPERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH S.T. JOSHI|url=http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/the-lovecraft-expert-an-interview-with-s-t-joshi/|website=Innsmouth Free Press|access-date=February 18, 2015|archive-date=February 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219063910/http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/the-lovecraft-expert-an-interview-with-s-t-joshi/|url-status=dead}}</ref> for the hostile opinions of various authors he expressed in his story introductions within ''Arkham's Masters of Horror'' (2000). Rumors of his ill-health circulated for some time; he eventually suffered a stroke and his editorial duties at Arkham House lapsed due to this.

The house's publishing schedule slowed considerably between 2000 and 2006, with only nine books issued—''In the Stone House'' by [[Barry N. Malzberg]] (2000); ''Book of the Dead'' by [[E. Hoffmann Price]] (a collection of memoirs of writers known by Price, 2001); ''Arkham House's Masters of Horror'' (ed. Peter Ruber, 2000); ''The Far Side of Nowhere'' by [[Nelson Bond]] (2002); ''The Cleansing'' by John D. Harvey (a horror novel, 2002); ''Selected Letters of [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'' (ed. Scott Connors, 2003); ''Cave of a Thousand Tales'' by Milt Thomas (a biography of pulp writer [[Hugh B. Cave]], 2004); ''Other Worlds Than Ours'', another collection by Nelson Bond (2005); and ''Evermore'' (a collection of tales in tribute to [[Edgar Allan Poe]], ed. James Robert Smith & Stephen Mark Rainey, 2006).

In 2005 Arkham House was awarded the [[World Fantasy Award]] for Small Press Achievements—the trophy at that time was a bust of [[H. P. Lovecraft]].

In early 2009 it was announced that George Vanderburgh of [[Battered Silicon Dispatch Box]], and [[Robert Weinberg (author)|Robert Weinberg]], would jointly take over the editorial duties at Arkham House. That year Battered Silicon Dispatch Box issued four new volumes of stories by [[August Derleth]] under the umbrella title "The Macabre Quarto" under a joint imprint with Arkham House, which constituted the latter's only output since 2006.

In 2010 ''The Arkham Sampler (1948–49)'' was reissued in a [[limited edition]] (250 sets) two-volume facsimile reprint of the now-rare magazine issued by Arkham House that ran four issues a year 1948–1949. This work was issued by Arkham House co-published with the [[August Derleth Society]]. In the same year Jon Lellenberg's novel ''Baker Street Irregular'' was issued under the Mycroft and Moran imprint.