Golden Goblin Press is a fictional publishing company in the Cthulhu Mythos

Cthulhu Mythos

The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...

. The publishing house first appeared in Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....

's short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 "The Black Stone" (1931).

Golden Goblin Press in the mythos

Golden Goblin Press was founded in New York

New York City

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 in 1908 by two brothers, Samuel and John Addleton, and was named after a small Native American

Native Americans in the United States

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 figurine owned by one of the brothers. The publishing company specialized in printing obscure works, most notably Nameless Cults

Unaussprechlichen Kulten

Unaussprechlichen Kulten is a fictional work of arcane literature in the Cthulhu Mythos. The book first appeared in Robert E. Howard's short stories "The Children of the Night" and "The Black Stone" as Nameless Cults. Like the Necronomicon, it was later mentioned in several stories by H. P...

(1909) by Friedrich von Junzt and a translation of Revelations of Hali (1913) by the medium E. S. Bayrolle. Although the publishing house closed during World War I

World War I

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, it reappeared in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 a decade later. Among its later publications are C.A. Smith's The Dream of the Spider and the Awakening (1931) and Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee's The Shadow Out of Time (1936).