Derleth, with assistance from Donald Wandrei, founded Arkham House to reprint Lovecraft's work, and the imprint was later for several decades to provide a haven for other writers influenced by Lovecraft, including Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley. His disciples included Robert Bloch, August W Derleth, Henry Kuttner and E Hoffmann Price. He began to publish professionally with the serial release of Herbert West – Reanimator (February-July 1922 Home Brew as 'Grewsome Tales' vt March 1942-November 1943 Weird Tales 1977 chap), which features a caricature Mad Scientist, though he only began to establish himself when he started, with 'Dagon' (November 1919 The Vagrant October 1923 Weird Tales), to publish in Weird Tales his prolific correspondence with many other of its writers made him a key influence on that magazine: without his background presence its highly significant contribution to the development of American weird fiction would have been considerably weakened. He joined the United Amateur Press Association (see APA) in 1914 and produced much of his early fiction in connection with this enterprise, which also allowed him to come in touch with Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long and others, for all of whom he was a major inspiration his own admitted influences included Robert W Chambers and Lord Dunsany.

He was an important figure by correspondence in the careers of many authors who later published work clearly influenced by him and the correspondence between him and Robert E Howard illuminates these two solitary (but intensely communicative) figures. (1890-1937) US author who spent almost all his life in Providence, Rhode Island, maintaining extensive social contacts mainly by mail.

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