August Derleth (1909–1971)
Author of The Lurker at the Threshold
About the Author
August Derleth was born on February 24, 1909 in Sauk City, Wisconsin. He sold his first story to Weird Tales at the age of 16. He received a Bachelor's of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin. After college, he went to work for Fawcett Publications as an editor for Mystic Magazine. In 1932, show more the first of his Sac Prairie stories was published in various local papers. In 1935, his first book, a collection of related novellas entitled Place of Hawks, was published. In 1937, his first Sac Prairie novel, Still is the Summer Night, was published. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1938 to help him continue the Sac Prairie saga. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 90 books including The Milwaukee Road, Still Small Voice, H.P.L.: A Memoir, Restless Is the River, The Hills Stand Watch, Sweet Genevieve, Evening in Spring, The Moon Tenders, The Captive Island, and Father Marquette and the Great River. He had upward of 3,000 works published in over 350 magazines including The Catholic World, The Yale Review, The New Republic, Redbook, The New Yorker, Good Housekeeping, and The American Mercury. He died on June 6, 1971. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by August Derleth
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow : The Last Science Fiction Anthology (1999) — Editor — 23 copies
The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (The Adventures of Solar Pons Book 6) (2018) 12 copies
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. (1947) 12 copies
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 1 6 copies
Sleeping and the Dead, The: Thirty Uncanny Tales Selected by August Derleth (1947) — Compiler — 6 copies
Praed Street Papers 5 copies
Poetry Out of Wisconsin 5 copies
No future for Luana 4 copies
The Arkham Sampler, Spring 1949 4 copies
The Arrival of Solar Pons: Early Manuscripts and Pulp Magazine Appearances of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street — Author — 3 copies
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 2 3 copies
Otros mitos de Cthulhu / Other myths of Cthulhu (El Libro De Bolsillo. Bibliotecas Tematicas. Biblioteca De Fantasia Y… (2005) 3 copies
The Metronome 3 copies
The Return Of Hastur 3 copies
The Drifting Snow 3 copies
Dagon and other macabre tales: selected by August Derleth with texts edited by S.T. Joshi & an introduction by T.E.D.… (1986) — Editor — 2 copies
Country poems 2 copies
The Three Straw Men 2 copies
Worlds of tomorrow. Short stories by various authors. Edited by A. Derleth (Science Fiction.) (1954) 2 copies
The House of Moonlight 2 copies
By owl light 2 copies
The adventure of the Orient Express 2 copies
Mrs. Manifold [short fiction] 2 copies
Sweet Genevieve 2 copies
August Derleth's Eerie Creatures 2 copies
Arkham Collector #8 2 copies
The Seal Of R’lyeh 2 copies
The Lonesome Place 2 copies
The Sandwin Compact 2 copies
"H.P. LOVECRAFT" BOOKS: The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories / The Tomb and Other Tales 2 copies
Something In Wood 2 copies
The Whippoorwills In The Hills 2 copies
Hawk on the wind; poems 1 copy
Innsmouth Clay 1 copy
The Heritage of Sauk City 1 copy
Witches hollow 1 copy
De verborgen bewoner 1 copy
The Panelled Room 1 copy
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1949 1 copy
Logoda's Heads 1 copy
Death by design 1 copy
New poetry out of Wisconsin, 1 copy
Caitlin 1 copy
L'Amulette tibétaine 1 copy
The beast in Holger's Woods, 1 copy
WEIRD TALES JULY 1951 1 copy
A Room in a House 1 copy
The Man on B-17 1 copy
The Extra Passenger 1 copy
The Arkham collector 1 copy
Rendezvous in a Landscape 1 copy
The House of Moonlight 1 copy
A House above Cuzco 1 copy
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1948 1 copy
Nellie Foster 1 copy
Pacific 421 1 copy
Three Gentlemen in Black 1 copy
The Return of Andrew Bentley 1 copy
Aldous Huxley - Il sorriso della Gioconda | August W. Derleth - La signora Lannisfree | - Lettera noiosa — Author — 1 copy
The Arkham sampler 1 copy
Psyche 1 copy
The Gable Window 1 copy
Bat's belfry 1 copy
Opere complete 1 copy
Tempesta di neve 1 copy
Mr. George {short story} 1 copy
TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2. Edited by August Derleth. Two volumes. (1969) — Editor — 1 copy
El juez Peck investiga 1 copy
Solar Pons #2 1 copy
THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER MAGAZINE: GREAT STORIES OF MYSTERY, DETECTION AND SUSPENSE [VOL. 1] NO. 5 (1952) 1 copy
Le mythe de Cthulhu 1 copy
Who Knocks? 1 copy
El que acecha en el umbral 1 copy
The China Cottage 1 copy
Death Holds the Post 1 copy
MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY: A JUDGE PECK MYSTERY STORY [UK TITLE: DEATH STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY] (1934) 1 copy
Les révisions de Lovecraft 1 copy
Dictionnaire des auteurs 1 copy
McIlvaine’s Star 1 copy
Over the Edge 1 copy
Poetry out of Wisconsin 1 copy
Wisconsin country 1 copy
Associated Works
The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1963) — Introduction, some editions — 612 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contributor — 264 copies
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contributor — 198 copies
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 1 (1984) — Contributor — 194 copies
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contributor — 184 copies
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Contributor — 100 copies
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contributor — 92 copies
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Contributor — 88 copies
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contributor — 78 copies
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Contributor — 44 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contributor — 41 copies
The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (2010) — Contributor, some editions — 31 copies
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Contributor — 27 copies
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 2 (1993) — Contributor — 20 copies
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contributor — 13 copies
Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Contributor — 12 copies
Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes: A Panorama of Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 11 copies
Fantastisia kertomuksia : antologia 11 copies
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Contributor — 7 copies
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Contributor — 7 copies
Hitchcocktail — Author, some editions — 5 copies
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 2, August-September 1936 — Contributor — 4 copies
The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes — Contributor — 3 copies
MIRAGE ON LOVECRAFT - A LITERARY VIEW — Contributor — 3 copies
Spøgelseshistorier fra hele verden — Contributor, some editions — 3 copies
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 4, April 1933 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 2, February 1933 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 4, October 1932 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 2, August 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 2, August 1929 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 45 Number 3, July 1953 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 26 Number 5, November 1935 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 1, January 1936 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Contributor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 6, December 1928 — Contributor — 1 copy
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Contributor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 38 Number 2, November 1944 — Contributor; Contributor — 1 copy
Direction, Volume 1, Number 2 (Jan-March 1935) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Derleth, August
- Legal name
- Derleth, August William
- Other names
- Grendon, Stephen (nom de plume)
- Birthdate
- 1909-02-24
- Date of death
- 1971-07-04
- Burial location
- St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Place of death
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Cause of death
- Derleth died of a heart attack
- Places of residence
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Education
- University of Wisconsin (BA|1930)
- Occupations
- editor
publisher - Short biography
- August Derleth was born in 1909 in the United States, he died in 1971. He became a correspondent of Lovecraft in 1925, then his friend. At his death he continued his fantastic work both as a writer and as an editor. Arkham House, his publisher, has raised awareness of the complete writings of Lovecraft.
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THE DEEP ONES: "Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft in The Weird Tradition (August 2018)
Lovecraftian Criticism in The Weird Tradition (November 2017)
Lovecraftian Donnybrook in The Weird Tradition (October 2013)
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