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Founded | 1999 |
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Founder | Derrick Hussey |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | New York City |
Publication types | Books,journals |
Fiction genres | fantasy,horror andscience fiction |
Official website | hippocampuspress |
Hippocampus Press is an Americanpublisher that specializes in "the works ofH. P. Lovecraft and his literary circle".[1] Founded in 1999 and based inNew York City, Hippocampus is operated by founder Derrick Hussey.
As of 2017, it has issued over 200 publications, including editions of the complete fiction, essays, and poetry[2][3] of Lovecraft, and thirteen volumes in the ongoing series of Lovecraft'sCollected Letters.
In 2014,Publishers Weekly said Hippocampus Press is "the world's leading publisher of books related to horror writer H. P. Lovecraft".[4]
Hippocampus has also published previously unavailable weird fiction byLord Dunsany (The Pleasures of a Futuroscope,The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories), as well as the "Lovecraft's Library" series, which collects works by authors who influenced Lovecraft but have since fallen out of fashion, such asAlgernon Blackwood andM. P. Shiel.
Hippocampus Press also publishes the periodicalsDead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts,The Lovecraft Annual,Lovecraftian Proceedings (papers presented atNecronomiCon Providence),Spectral Realms (devoted to weird and fantastic verse), andPenumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism (features contemporary weird fiction, verse, and scholarly articles).
In 2011, Hippocampus Press was awarded theHorror Writers Association's Specialty Press Award.[5]
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