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Donald Wandrei
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BornDonald Albert Wandrei
(1908-04-20)April 20, 1908
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedOctober 15, 1987(1987-10-15) (aged 79)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • poet
  • editor
GenreFantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, mystery fiction
RelativesHoward Wandrei (brother)

Donald Albert Wandrei (20 April 1908 – 15 October 1987)[1] was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei. He had fourteen stories in Weird Tales, another sixteen in Astounding Stories, plus a few in other magazines including Esquire. Wandrei was the co-founder (with August Derleth) of the prestigious fantasy/horror publishing house Arkham House.

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Wandrei

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Arkham House

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was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which...

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the name given by publishers to a story found in the letter sent to Donald Wandrei by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft on 3 November 1927...

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series of chess-playing programs Colossus (collection), short stories by Donald Wandrei Colossus, a fictional computer that features in the novel Colossus,...

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Dream Cycle

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Clark Ashton Smith

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August Derleth

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was a contributing editor of Outdoors Magazine. With longtime friend Donald Wandrei, Derleth founded Arkham House in 1939. Its initial objective was to...

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Arthur Machen

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The Eye and the Finger

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fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by American writer Donald Wandrei. It was released in 1944 and was his first book published by Arkham...

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Lord Dunsany

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"Carcassonne" as one text that presaged or paralleled Franz Kafka's themes. Donald Wandrei, in a 7 February 1927 letter to H. P. Lovecraft, listed Dunsany's The...

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Strange Harvest

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Carter. Strange Harvest is a collection of stories by American writer Donald Wandrei. It was released in 1965 and was the author's fourth book published...

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

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it to be published posthumously in Weird Tales by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Writing in the New York Times, reviewer William Poster described Ward...

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The Outsider and Others

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Wright. The stories for this volume were selected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. The dust jacket art was a montage of drawings by Virgil Finlay for...

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The Call of Cthulhu

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The Rats in the Walls

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given its name when Lovecraft was about age nine. Richard Corben and Donald Wandrei have adapted the story for the comic book format. The Atlanta Radio...

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Robert Bloch

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The Thing in the Moonlight

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is based on a letter dated November 24, 1927 from H. P. Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei describing one of Lovecraft's dreams. The story was prepared for publication...

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Neptune in fiction

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Star" was reused in the 1932 short story "Raiders of the Universes" by Donald Wandrei, although in this case it then proceeds to leave the Solar System rather...

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