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Cover of The Arkham Sampler, Winter 1948

The Arkham Sampler, Winter 1948

1948

Editor August Derleth
Cover art Ronald Clyne
Publisher Arkham House
Price $1.00
Pages 104
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v1 #1 Editor not credited, listed as Derleth in "Sixty Years of Arkham House" by S.T. Joshi, Arkham House, 1999; Clyne credit also from Joshi Clyne's cover design is credited by Derleth in his editorial comments in the Summer 1948 issue.
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Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
3 Short Fiction Fiction Messrs. Turkes and Talbot H. Russell Wakefield
15 Essay Non Fiction History and Chronology of the Necronomicon Together with Some Pertinent Paragraphs H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth
20 Poem Fiction Lamia Clark Ashton Smith
21 Poem Fiction The Nameless Wraith Clark Ashton Smith
22 Poem Fiction The City of Destruction Clark Ashton Smith
23 Essay Non Fiction Introduction: Strange Ports of Call August Derleth
28 Essay Non Fiction A Little Anthology (The Arkham Sampler, Winter 1948) Malcolm Ferguson
32 Short Fiction Fiction Mara Stephen Grendon
41 Poem Fiction A Hornbook for Witches Leah Bodine Drake
43 Essay Non Fiction Checklist: The Carvings of Clark Ashton Smith uncredited
49 Serial Fiction The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (Part 1 of 4) H. P. Lovecraft
75 Review Non Fiction Greener Than You Think August Derleth & Ward Moore
75 Review Non Fiction Man Into Beast: Strange Tales of Transformation August Derleth & A. C. Spectorsky
75 Essay Non Fiction Two Novels and an Anthology August Derleth
75 Review Non Fiction Zotz! August Derleth & Walter Karig
78 Review Non Fiction Edison's Conquest of Mars August Derleth & Garrett P. Serviss
78 Essay Non Fiction From the Fan Presses August Derleth
78 Review Non Fiction Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science-Fiction Writing August Derleth & Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
78 Review Non Fiction The Forbidden Garden August Derleth & John Taine
78 Review Non Fiction Venus Equilateral August Derleth & George O. Smith
82 Review Non Fiction The Checklist of Fantastic Literature August Derleth & Everett Bleiler & Melvin Korshak
82 Essay Non Fiction The Shasta Checklist August Derleth
83 Review Non Fiction Dark Carnival Robert Bloch & Ray Bradbury
83 Review Non Fiction Night's Black Agents Robert Bloch & Fritz Leiber, Jr.
83 Review Non Fiction Revelations in Black Robert Bloch & Carl Jacobi
83 Essay Non Fiction Through a Glass, Darkly Robert Bloch
86 Essay Non Fiction A Thorne Off the Old Smith Robert Bloch
86 Review Non Fiction The Grass is Always Greener Robert Bloch & George Malcolm-Smith
87 Review Non Fiction The Fireside Book of Suspense John Haley & Alfred Hitchcock
87 Review Non Fiction The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible John Haley & August Derleth
87 Review Non Fiction The Sleeping and the Dead: 30 Uncanny Tales John Haley & August Derleth
87 Essay Non Fiction Three Anthologies John Haley
90 Review Non Fiction Mrs. Candy and Saturday Night uncredited & Robert Tallant
90 Essay Non Fiction Short Notices (The Arkham Sampler, Winter 1948) uncredited
90 Review Non Fiction The American Imagination At Work: Tall Tales and Folk Tales uncredited & Ben C. Clough
90 Review Non Fiction The Enchanted Book uncredited & Alice Dalgliesh
90 Review Non Fiction The Scarf uncredited & Robert Bloch
91 Review Non Fiction Rocket Ship Galileo uncredited & Robert A. Heinlein
91 Review Non Fiction The First Men in the Moon uncredited & H. G. Wells
91 Review Non Fiction The Flames uncredited & Olaf Stapledon
91 Review Non Fiction Two Came to Town uncredited & Simeon Strunsky
91 Review Non Fiction Windwagon Smith and Other Yarns uncredited & Wilbur Schramm
93 Essay Non Fiction Editorial Commentary (The Arkham Sampler, Winter 1948) uncredited

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction The Arkham Sampler - 1948 August Derleth
Cover Art Non Fiction The Arkham Sampler, Winter 1948 Ronald Clyne