About August Derleth
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.
Series
Judge Peck
The Man on All Fours (1934)
Murder Stalks The Wakely Family (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)
The Man on All Fours (1934)
Murder Stalks The Wakely Family (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)
Sac Prairie
Still Is the Summer Night (1937)
Atmosphere of Houses (1939)
Restless Is the River (1939)
Evening in Spring (1941)
Village Year (1941)
Sweet Genevieve (1942)
Shadow of Night (1943)
The Shield of the Valiant Scribner's (1945)
Village Daybook (1947)
Countryman's Journal (1963)
Wisconsin Country (1965)
Still Is the Summer Night (1937)
Atmosphere of Houses (1939)
Restless Is the River (1939)
Evening in Spring (1941)
Village Year (1941)
Sweet Genevieve (1942)
Shadow of Night (1943)
The Shield of the Valiant Scribner's (1945)
Village Daybook (1947)
Countryman's Journal (1963)
Wisconsin Country (1965)
Wisconsin
Bright Journey (1940)
The House on the Mound (1958)
The Hills Stand Watch (1960)
The Shadow in the Glass (1962)
The Wind Leans West (1969)
Bright Journey (1940)
The House on the Mound (1958)
The Hills Stand Watch (1960)
The Shadow in the Glass (1962)
The Wind Leans West (1969)
Solar Pons
The Adventures of Solar Pons (1945)
Regarding Sherlock Holmes... (1945)
The Memoirs of Solar Pons (1951)
The Return of Solar Pons (1958)
The Reminiscences of Solar Pons (1961)
The Casebook of Solar Pons (1965)
Mr Fairlie's Final Journey (1968)
The Chronicles of Solar Pons (1973)
The Adventures of Solar Pons (1945)
Regarding Sherlock Holmes... (1945)
The Memoirs of Solar Pons (1951)
The Return of Solar Pons (1958)
The Reminiscences of Solar Pons (1961)
The Casebook of Solar Pons (1965)
Mr Fairlie's Final Journey (1968)
The Chronicles of Solar Pons (1973)
Novels
Father Marquette and the Great Rivers (1955)
Walden West (1961)
The Beast in Holger's Woods (1968)
Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesus (1999)
The Milwaukee Road (2002)
Walden West (1961)
The Beast in Holger's Woods (1968)
Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesus (1999)
The Milwaukee Road (2002)
Omnibus
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: And Others (1957) (with H P Lovecraft)
The Mask of Cthulhu (1958)
Lonesome Places (1962)
The Trail of Cthulhu (1962)
Mr George: And Other Odd Persons (1962) (writing as Stephen Grendon)
Mr George and Other Odd Persons (1963)
Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People (1966) (with Mark Schorer)
The Shuttered Room: And Other Tales of Horror (1968)
The Watchers Out of Time: And Others (1974)
Harrigan's File (1975)
Dwellers in Darkness (1976)
Quest for Cthulhu (1981)
An August Derleth Reader (1992)
The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) (with H P Lovecraft)
Something Near (1945)
Not Long for This World (1948)
The Survivor: And Others (1957) (with H P Lovecraft)
The Mask of Cthulhu (1958)
Lonesome Places (1962)
The Trail of Cthulhu (1962)
Mr George: And Other Odd Persons (1962) (writing as Stephen Grendon)
Mr George and Other Odd Persons (1963)
Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People (1966) (with Mark Schorer)
The Shuttered Room: And Other Tales of Horror (1968)
The Watchers Out of Time: And Others (1974)
Harrigan's File (1975)
Dwellers in Darkness (1976)
Quest for Cthulhu (1981)
An August Derleth Reader (1992)
Anthologies edited
Who Knocks? (1946)
The Dark Brotherhood (1946)
The Night Side (1947)
The Sleeping and the Dead: Thirty Uncanny Tales (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)
The Time of Infinity (1951)
Beachheads in Space (1952)
From Other Worlds (1952)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
New Worlds for Old (1953)
Worlds of Tomorrow (1953)
Portals of Tomorrow (1954)
Time to Come (1954)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Sleep No More (1964)
Over the Edge (1964)
Travellers by Night (1967)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 1 (1969)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 2 (1969)
The Horror in the Museum: And Other Tales (1970)
Dark Things (1971)
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow (1990)
The Dark Brotherhood (1946)
The Night Side (1947)
The Sleeping and the Dead: Thirty Uncanny Tales (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)
The Time of Infinity (1951)
Beachheads in Space (1952)
From Other Worlds (1952)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
New Worlds for Old (1953)
Worlds of Tomorrow (1953)
Portals of Tomorrow (1954)
Time to Come (1954)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Sleep No More (1964)
Over the Edge (1964)
Travellers by Night (1967)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 1 (1969)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 2 (1969)
The Horror in the Museum: And Other Tales (1970)
Dark Things (1971)
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow (1990)
Non fiction
Still Small Voice: The Biography of Zona Gale (1940)
The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles (1942)
St Ignatius and the Company of Jesus (1956)
Concord Rebel: A Life of Henry D Thoreau (1962)
Three Literary Men: A Memoir of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters (1963) (see Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis)
Walden Pond: Homage to Thoreau (1968)
Emerson, Our Contemporary (1970)
Thirty Years of Arkham House: 1939-1969 (1970)
Writing Fiction (1971)
The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles (1942)
St Ignatius and the Company of Jesus (1956)
Concord Rebel: A Life of Henry D Thoreau (1962)
Three Literary Men: A Memoir of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters (1963) (see Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis)
Walden Pond: Homage to Thoreau (1968)
Emerson, Our Contemporary (1970)
Thirty Years of Arkham House: 1939-1969 (1970)
Writing Fiction (1971)
Anthologies containing stories by August Derleth
The Other Worlds (1941)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Night Side (1947)
The Girl with Hungry Eyes (1949)
Far Boundaries (1951)
Far Boundaries (1951)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Kurt Singer's Ghost Omnibus (1964)
Over the Edge (1964)
The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
I Can't Sleep at Night (1966)
Tales of Terror (1967)
This Day's Evil (1967)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968)
Coffin Corner (1968)
The Evil People (1968)
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
Legends for the Dark (1968)
The Midnight People (1968)
The Midnight People (1968)
Daring Detectives (1969)
A Man Called Poe (1969)
The Satanists (1969)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 1 (1969)
The 11th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1970)
The Freak Show (1970)
The Hollywood Nightmare (1970)
The Necromancers (1971)
The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971)
London Tales of Terror (1972)
Book of the Werewolf (1973)
The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
A Clutch of Vampires (1974)
The Devil's Children (1974)
Gooseflesh! (1974)
Oriental Tales of Terror (1974)
The Ghost's Companion (1975)
The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 1 (1976)
Weird Legacies (1977)
The Master's Choice Book 1 (1979)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
Zombie (1985)
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987)
Tales of the Occult (1989)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995)
The Dunwich Cycle (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Cthulhu Cycle (1996)
Supernatural Sleuths (1996)
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Vampire Slayers: Stories of Those Who Dare to Take Back the Night (1999)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Night Side (1947)
The Girl with Hungry Eyes (1949)
Far Boundaries (1951)
Far Boundaries (1951)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Kurt Singer's Ghost Omnibus (1964)
Over the Edge (1964)
The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
I Can't Sleep at Night (1966)
Tales of Terror (1967)
This Day's Evil (1967)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968)
Coffin Corner (1968)
The Evil People (1968)
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
Legends for the Dark (1968)
The Midnight People (1968)
The Midnight People (1968)
Daring Detectives (1969)
A Man Called Poe (1969)
The Satanists (1969)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 1 (1969)
The 11th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1970)
The Freak Show (1970)
The Hollywood Nightmare (1970)
The Necromancers (1971)
The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971)
London Tales of Terror (1972)
Book of the Werewolf (1973)
The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
A Clutch of Vampires (1974)
The Devil's Children (1974)
Gooseflesh! (1974)
Oriental Tales of Terror (1974)
The Ghost's Companion (1975)
The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 1 (1976)
Weird Legacies (1977)
The Master's Choice Book 1 (1979)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
Zombie (1985)
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987)
Tales of the Occult (1989)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995)
The Dunwich Cycle (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Cthulhu Cycle (1996)
Supernatural Sleuths (1996)
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Vampire Slayers: Stories of Those Who Dare to Take Back the Night (1999)
Short stories
| Bat's Belfry (1926) | |||
| The Adventure of the Black Narcissus (1929) | |||
| The Adventure of the Late Mr Faversham (1929) | |||
| The Adventure of the Limpimg Man (1929) | |||
| The Adventure of the Missing Tenants (1929) | |||
| The Adventure of the Black Cardinal (1930) | |||
| Mrs Bentley's Daughter (1930) | |||
| Prince Borgia's Mass (1931) | |||
| The House in the Magnolias (1932) | |||
| The Thing That Walked on the Wind (1932) | |||
| Nellie Foster (1933) | |||
| The Panelled Room (1933) | |||
| The Return of Andrew Bentley (1933) (with Mark Schorer) | |||
| The Metronome (1934) | |||
| Wild Grapes (1934) | |||
| Lesandro's Familiar (1936) | |||
| Three Gentlemen In Black (1938) | |||
| The Drifting Snow (1939) (writing as Stephen Grendon) | |||
| The Return of Hastur (1939) | |||
| Beyond the Threshold (1941) | |||
| Here, Daemos! (1942) | |||
| The House on Curwen Street (1943) | |||
| A Wig for Miss DeVore (1943) | |||
| The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle (1944) | |||
| The Dweller in Darkness (1944) | |||
| A Gentleman from Prague (1944) | |||
| Pacific 421 (1944) | |||
| Alannah (1945) | |||
| Carousel (1945) | |||
| The Lost Day (1945) | |||
| The Watcher from the Sky (1945) | |||
| Dead Man's Shoes (1946) | |||
| The Extra Passenger (1946) (writing as Stephen Grendon) | |||
| Mr George (1946) (writing as Stephen Grendon) | |||
| Bishop's Gambit (1947) | |||
| The Lonesome Place (1947) | |||
| Parrington's Pool (1947) | |||
| Blessed Are the Meek (1948) | |||
| Mara (1948) | |||
| The Night Train to Lost Valley (1948) | |||
| Saunder's Little Friend (1948) | |||
| The Tsanta in the Parlour (1948) | |||
| The Whippoorwills in the Hills (1948) | |||
| The Wind in the Lilacs (1948) | |||
| Balu (1949) | |||
| The Blue Spectacles (1949) | |||
| The Gorge Beyond Salapunco (1949) | |||
| Mrs Manifold (1949) (writing as Stephen Grendon) | |||
| The Slayers and the Slain (1949) | |||
| The Man on B-17 (1950) (writing as Stephen Grendon) | |||
| The Man on the B-17 (1950) | |||
| A Room in a House (1950) | |||
| The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf (1951) | |||
| The Keeper of the Key (1951) | |||
| The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty (1952) | |||
| The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm (1952) | |||
| The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers (1952) | |||
| The Black Island (1952) | |||
| Hector (1952) (writing as Michael West) | |||
| The House in the Valley (1953) | |||
| The Adventure of the Penny Magenta (1954) | |||
| The Adventure of the Swedenberg Signatures (1954) | |||
| The Survivor (1954) (with H P Lovecraft) | |||
| The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus (1955) (with Mack Reynolds) | |||
| The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman (1955) | |||
| The Adventure of the Devil's Footprints (1956) | |||
| The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse (1956) | |||
| The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue (1956) | |||
| The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant (1956) | |||
| The Adventure of the 'Triple Kent' (1957) | |||
| The Adventure of the Little Hangman (1957) | |||
| The Ancestor (1957) (with H P Lovecraft) | |||
| The Dark Boy (1957) | |||
| The Gable Window (1957) | |||
| The Lamp of Alhazred (1957) | |||
| The Peabody Heritage (1957) | |||
| The Shadow Out of Space (1957) | |||
| Wentworth's Day (1957) | |||
| The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance (1958) | |||
| The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders (1959) | |||
| The Fisherman of Falcon Point (1959) | |||
| Hallowe'en for Mr Faulkner (1959) | |||
| The Shuttered Room (1959) (with H P Lovecraft) | |||
| The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels (1960) | |||
| The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient (1961) | |||
| The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate (1961) | |||
| The Adventure of the Sussex Archers (1962) | |||
| House - with Ghost (1962) | |||
| Miss Esperson (1962) (writing as Stephen Grendon) | |||
| The Adventure of the Fatal Glance (1963) | |||
| The Adventure of the Haunted Library (1963) | |||
| The Adventure of the Whispering Knights (1963) | |||
| The Adventure of the Crouching Dog (1964) | |||
| The Adventure of the Intarsia Box (1964) | |||
| The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane (1964) | |||
| The Amateur Philologist (1964) | |||
| The Adventure of the China Cottage (1965) | |||
| The Adventure of the Orient Express (1965) | |||
| The Adventure of the Red Leech (1966) | |||
| The Dark Brotherhood (1966) (with H P Lovecraft) | |||
| The Adventure of the Unique Dickensian's (1968) | |||
| The Adventure of the Aluminium Church | |||
| The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal | |||
| The Adventure of the Benin Bronze | |||
| The Adventure of the Bishop's Companion | |||
| The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet | |||
| The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet | |||
| The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac | |||
| The Adventure of the Innkeeper's Clerk | |||
| The Adventure of the Lost Holiday | |||
| The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman | |||
| The Adventure of the Praed Street Irregulars | |||
| The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt | |||
| The Adventure of the Retired Novelist | |||
| The Adventure of the Seven Passengers | |||
| The Adventure of the Seven Sisters | |||
| The Adventure of the Shaplow Millions | |||
| The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman | |||
| The Adventure of the Stone of Scone | |||
| The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs | |||
| The Adventures of the Man with the Broken Face | |||
| The Little Friend | |||
| Mrs Lannisfree | |||
| Open Sesame! (writing as Stephen Grendon) | |||
| The Patchwork Quilt | |||
| The Song of the Pewee (writing as Stephen Grendon) | |||
| They Shall Rise (with Mark Schorer) |
Links to other websites
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August Derleth recommends
The Double Shadow: And Other Fantasies (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." | The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1943) H P Lovecraft "Among the best fiction of H P Lovecraft." | Scratch on the Dark (1967) (Mike Faraday) Basil Copper "Outstanding in the genre." |
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