Turner, Jim
Entry updated 6 February 2023. Tagged: Publisher, Editor.
(1945-1999) US editor and publisher who ran Arkham House from 1976 to 1996, when he was fired. Here, though without cover credit, he edited a notable retrospective collection of James Tiptree's stories, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr (coll 1990), and a reprint anthology of stories "inspired" by H P Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu 2000 (anth 1995). In 1996 Turner moved on to run his own small-press imprint, Golden Gryphon Press, continuing to focus on short-story collections from a wide range of writers; for Golden Gryphon he compiled another book of more or less Lovecraftian reprints: Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture (anth 1998). [DRL]
James Allen Turner
born St Louis, Missouri: 19 March 1945
died St Louis, Missouri: 28 March 1999
works
works as editor
- James Tiptree. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1990) [coll: edited by Turner uncredited: intro by John Clute: illus/hb/Andrew Smith]
- Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1995) [anth: hb/Bob Eggleton]
- Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture (Urbana, Illinois: Golden Gryphon Press, 1998) [anth: hb/Nicholas Jainschigg]
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