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August Derleth (1909-1971) was an American writer and anthologist, best known for his contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre. He also wrote regional fiction, poetry, science fiction, and biography, and founded the publisher Arkham House with H. P. Lovecraft.
Learn about the life and works of August Derleth, a prolific and versatile writer of detective, supernatural, and regional fiction. He was also the founder of Arkham House, a publisher of horror and fantasy books.
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The son of William Julius Derleth and his wife Rose Louise Volk, he grew up in Sauk City, Wisconsin. At the age of 16, he sold his first story to Weird Tales magazine. Derleth wrote all throughout his four years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a B.A. in 1930. During this time he served briefly as editor of Mystic Magazine. In th...
Derleth was a contemporary and friend of H. P. Lovecraft — when Lovecraft wrote about "le Comte d'Erlette" in his fiction, it was in homage to Derleth. Derleth invented the term Cthulhu Mythos to describe the fictional universe described in the series of stories shared by Lovecraft and other writers in his circle. Derleth's own writing emphasized t...
Derleth wrote more than 150 short stories and more than 100 books during his lifetime. Included among that number were several novels about a Sherlock Holmes-like British detective named Solar Pons. His other series included the Sac Prairie Saga, the Wisconsin Saga, and the Judge Peck series. He also wrote introductions to several collections of cl...
"The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders" is a crossover between the Cthulhu Mythos and Derleth's Solar Pons series, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche. Derleth wrote many Solar Pons stories, and the vast majority have no Lovecraftian connection, although later authors have also crossed Pons with elements of the Mythos.
Bleiler, Everett F. (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature Chicago: Shasta Publishers, p. 98.Derleth, August (1962). 100 Books by August Derleth Sauk City, WI: Arkham House.Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House CompanionMercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.Chalker, Jack L. & Owings, Mark (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.August Derleth was an American writer and anthologist, best known as Lovecraft's literary executor and co-author of Cthulhu Mythos stories. He also wrote historical fiction, detective fiction, and founded Arkham House publishing company.
Browse the list of books by August Derleth, a horror and fantasy writer and editor. Find his works featuring Cthulhu Mythos, Solar Pons, and other characters and themes.
August Derleth: Twenty-Five Years of Writing 1926-1951 1951 ( Sauk City , WI : Arkham House) Bibliography
After Lovecraft’s death, August Derleth based a number of stories on fragments written by Lovecraft and published these as “posthumous collaborations” between Lovecraft and Derleth.
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August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Cosmic Horror genre, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in ...
