Neville Spearman Arkham House Reprints

[cathaven]

Jersey-based publisher Neville Spearman Ltd. published a number of hardcover reprints of Arkham House titles in the 70s. I have the following...

Robert Bloch - The Opener of the Way
August Derleth - The Mask of Cthulhu
August Derleth - The Trail of Cthulhu
Robert E. Howard - Skull-Face Omnibus
Carl Jacobi - Revelations in Black
David H. Keller - Tales From the Underwood
Clark Ashton Smith - Lost Worlds

Is there a bibliography of this publisher somewhere, or can people add to this list?

Apologies if this is in the wrong section. I wasn't quite sure where to put it.

[dem bones]

Spearman also revived Henry S. whitehead's Jumbee & Other Uncanny Tales (1974) and i'm sure they did his West India Lights (the following year?). We've threads for some of these - David H. Keller's Tales From Underwood, R. E. H.'s The Skull-Face Omnibus, and Bloch's The Opener Of The Way for sure. Their covers are uniformly rubbish, especially Skull Face. Panther & Mayflower recycled the majority of the Spearman Arkham's in 2/ 3 volume paperback editions, though, unless I'm mistaken, they seem to have passed on Dr. Keller's collection.

[severance]

This what I've come up with:

1971

Clark Ashton Smith - Out of Space & Time
Clark Ashton Smith - Lost Worlds
James Dickie - The Undead

1972

Clark Ashton Smith - The Abominations of Yondo
Clark Ashton Smith - Genius Loci

1974

Henry S. Whitehead - Jumbee and other Uncanny Tales
Robert Bloch - The Opener of the Way
Robert E. Howard - Skull-Face Omnibus
August Derleth - The Mask of Cthulhu
August Derleth - The Trail of Cthulhu
David H. Keller - Tales from Underwood
Carl Jacobi - Revelations in Black

1975

Fritz Leiber - Night's Black Agents

[dem bones]

List of available Spearman titles from dust-jacket of their Robert E. Howard The Skull-Face Omnibus (1974)'

Groovy ad for Haining's The Satanists from back of Alan Hull Walton's The Open Grave

Neville Spearman's non-Arkham House titles of note include.

Ornella Volta & Valerio Riva - the Vampire (1963)
Peter Haining - The Satanists (1969)
Alan Hull Walton - The Open Grave (1969)
James Dickie - The Undead (1971)
Peter Haining - Weird Tales (1976)

Alan Hull Walton (ed.) - The Open Grave (Spearman, 1969)

Carol Smither

Alan Hull Walton – Preface

What Happens At A Black Mass? The Black Mass At The Ursulines
The Elemental Of Dalcoran
The Demons Of Sex: Sinistrari’s Demonialitate
The Unseen World And The Famous
* The Spirit Persecution Of Huysmans
* Experiences Of Eckermann: Goethe And His Psychic Faculty
* De Quincy’s Tale Of Miss Smith
* Lord Castlereagh And The ‘Radient Boy’
* A Curious Memorandum Found Among The Papers Of M. de la Harpe: Cazotte’s Uncanny Prophecy
* Zschokke And His Occult Vision
* Jung And Other Celebrated Experients
Brook House And The Haunted No. 8
Friendly Manifestations
* The Appearance Of Havelock Ellis To Francoise Delisle
* Father Weber
* King George V’s Chaplain And His Dog
* A Friendly Ghost In A University Town
* The Northamptonshire Servant
* Dalrymple And The Tramp
* The Luminous Nun
* The Lilly Family Saved From Death
* The Canadian Priest
* The Dog On The Beach
Experiences Of Lewis Hastings And Beverley Nichols
Anon – Chantry Manor House
Ars And Epworth: Poltergeists And Other Peculiarities
The Author And A Haunted House – Or Why Do People Live In Them?
J. S. Le Fanu – A Strange Event In The Life Of Schalken The Painter
Animal Ghosts, Familiars And An Epilogue:
* The Spectral Horse Of The Indian Hills
* A Tale Of The African Bush
* Foster’s Ghastly Ride
* Ghost Dogs
* The Hell-Horse
* Familiar Spirits
* Prince Valori And His Familiar
* The Venerable Sumangalo And A Magical Materialism
* Tulpas, Or Man Made GhostsThe Canadian Priest
* Epilogue: Joad And Stear On Psychic Research And Occultism

[jamesdoig]

Apr 3, 2013 14:31:34 GMT dem bones said:

List of available Spearman titles from dust-jacket of their Robert E. Howard The Skull-Face Omnibus (1974)'

Related Neville Spearman book from 1978 - has good articles by L. Sprague de Camp, Christopher Frayling and Angela Carter:

[squeeezer23232]

I have the Neville Spearman buckram reprint of Burn, Witch, Burn! by A. Merritt in my library. And I also just bought Skull-Face Omnibus on ebay.