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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. The company’s name is derived from Lovecraft’s fictional New England city Arkham. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. The colophon for Arkham House was designed by Frank Utpatel.