Peter Ruber (September 29, 1940 – March 6, 2014) was a

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author, editor and publisher. He had been an advertising executive, book publisher and, since the mid-1990s, a consultant and free-lance journalist for many leading business information technology magazines. He lived on Long Island, New York with his wife, three sons, three grandchildren and a mountain of books and literary papers. As a publishing executive, he came to know Arkham House founder

August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Lovecraftian horror, cosmi ...

. Between 1962 and 1971 he published many books by Derleth, some under his Candlelight Press imprint, and researched his former colleague's life and time for nearly forty years. Ruber became the editor for

Arkham House Arkham House was an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It 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 had ...

in 1997, after Jim Turner left to found

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. Ruber drew criticism for the hostile opinions of various authors he expressed in his story introductions within his anthology '' Arkham's Masters of Horror'' (2000). Ruber authored ''The Last Bookman: A Journey into the Life and Times of

Vincent Starrett Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (; October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile. Biography Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born above his grandfathe ...

: Journalist, Bookman, Bibliophile'' (NY: Candlelight Press, 1968; reprint Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1995) and was the editor of over 25 books. He did much research for a biography on

(as yet unpublished) and

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. He also began editing for

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all of Vincent Starrett's works, with 22 of a projected 25 volumes already in print. In 2000 Ruber edited a collection of previously unpublished stories by H. Russell Wakefield for Ash-Tree Press. For the same publisher, in 2003, he edited ''Night Creatures'' by

. Rumours of his ill-health circulated for some time; he suffered a stroke in 2004 and his editorial duties at Arkham House lapsed due to this. Ruber died on March 6, 2014.

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