The author wrote fiction published by a publisher. He died at an earlier day than Timothy Leary. Slan was published by this publisher.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( ; August 20, 1890 March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. 
Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920  May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. 
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. 
 It was subsequently published in hardcover in 1946 by Arkham House, in an edition of 4,051 copies. 
