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August Derleth


(August William Derleth)
USA flag (1909 - 1971)

aka Stephen Grendon, Tally Mason, Michael West

August Derleth was one of the founders of Arkham House. Born in Sauk City, Wisconsin, he continues to be Wisconsin's most prolific author more than 30 years after his death. His place in American literature will only be enhanced by the discovery of 40 new manuscripts yet to be published. Adding these to his already 150 books, Derleth's place in American literature continues to evolve and grow.
 

Genres: Mystery, Historical Mystery, General Fiction, Horror, Inspirational, Science Fiction
 
Series
Judge Peck
   Murder Stalks The Wakely Family (1934)
     aka Death Stalks the Wakely Family
   The Man on All Fours (1934)
   Sign of Fear (1935)
   Three Who Died (1935)
   Sentence Deferred (1939)
   The Narracong Riddle (1940)
   The Seven Who Waited (1943)
   Mischief in the Lane (1944)
   No Future for Luana (1945)
   Fell Purpose (1953)
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Solar Pons
   1. The Adventures of Solar Pons (1945)
     aka Regarding Sherlock Holmes
   2. The Memoirs of Solar Pons (1951)
   3. The Return of Solar Pons (1958)
   4. The Reminiscences of Solar Pons (1961)
   5. The Casebook of Solar Pons (1965)
   6. Mr Fairlie's Final Journey (1968)
   7. The Chronicles of Solar Pons (1973)
   8. The Final Adventures of Solar Pons (1998)
continued in the series by Basil Copper
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Novels
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Collections
   Someone in the Dark (1941)
   The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) (with H P Lovecraft)
   Something Near (1945)
   Not Long for This World (1948)
   The Survivor (1957) (with H P Lovecraft)
   The Mask of Cthulhu (1958)
   Lonesome Places (1962)
   Mr George (1962) (as by Stephen Grendon)
   The Trail of Cthulhu (1962)
   Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People (1966) (with Mark Schorer)
   The Shuttered Room (1968)
   The Watchers Out of Time (1974) (with H P Lovecraft)
   Harrigan's File (1975)
   Dwellers in Darkness (1976)
   Quest for Cthulhu (1981)
   An August Derleth Reader (1992)
   Horror Gems, Volume Three (2012) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
   The Dark Brotherhood (1946)
   Who Knocks? (1946)
   The Night Side (1947)
   The Sleeping and the Dead (1947)
   Strange Ports of Call (1948)
   The Other Side of the Moon (1949)
   Beyond Time and Space (1950)
   Far Boundaries (1951)
   The Outer Reaches (1951)
     aka The Time of Infinity
   Beachheads in Space (1952)
   From Other Worlds (1952)
   Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
   New Worlds for Old (1953)
     aka Worlds of Tomorrow
   Portals of Tomorrow (1954)
   Time to Come (1954)
   Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
   When Evil Wakes (1963)
   Over the Edge (1964)
   Sleep No More (1964)
   Travellers by Night (1967)
   Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 2 (1969) (with H P Lovecraft)
   Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 1 (1969)
   The Horror in the Museum (1970)
   Dark Things (1971)
   New Horizons (1990)
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Non fiction show
 
August Derleth recommends
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Scratch on the Dark (1967)
(Mike Faraday, book 4)
Basil Copper
"Outstanding in the genre."
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1943)
H P Lovecraft
"Among the best fiction of H P Lovecraft."
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The Double Shadow (1933)
Clark Ashton Smith
"More than any other writer, Clark Ashton Smith has captured the beauty and terror of fantastic worlds of dream and the imagination .virtually without peer in the genre of fantasy and the macabre."

Anthologies containing stories by August Derleth
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Black Cat Weekly #122 (2023)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 122)
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Weirder Shadows over Innsmouth (2013)
(Shadows over Innsmouth, book 3)
edited by
Stephen Jones

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