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August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.
August Derleth was born 24 February 1909, in Sauk City, a small, largely German village, pleasantly situated on the west bank of the Wisconsin River in south central Wisconsin, one of two children of William Julius and Rose Louise (Volk) Derleth, who were, respectively, of French-Bavarian and Prussian-Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.
August Derleth (February 24 1909 - July 4 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as Howard Phillips Lovecraft's literary executor and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a prolific writer in several genres, including...
August Derleth has 659 books on Goodreads with 180120 ratings. August Derleth’s most popular book is Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 2.
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.
A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, 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 ...
A complete list of all August Derleth's books & series in order (49 books) (1 series). Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards.
August William Derleth was a prolific Wisconsin author. His work includes novels, short stories, poetry, autobiography and memoir, biography, history, works for younger readers, and...
As a teenager, August William Derleth corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), and subsequently spent much of his life in projects aimed at preserving HPL's memory. He and Donald Wandrei formed Arkham House in December, 1939, in order to bring out an omnibus volume of HPL's work.
(1909-1971) US author and editor, born in Sauk City, Wisconsin, where he spent his life. A correspondent with and devout admirer of H P Lovecraft, he devoted much of his life to projects aimed at preserving Lovecraft's memory.
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.
August Derleth: Twenty-Five Years of Writing 1926-1951 1951 ( Sauk City , WI : Arkham House) Bibliography
August Derleth. August William Derleth was born in 1909 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, where he spent most of his life. He sold his first story to Weird Tales at the age of seventeen, in 1926, and contributed prolifically to that pulp magazine for much of its run.
In [the] first volume, Lovecraft’s relations to one of his most prominent colleagues and disciples, August Derleth (1909–1971), are recounted in the hundreds of letters they exchanged beginning in 1926.
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Stories by August Derleth. Those Who Seek ( Weird Tales, Jan 1932) The Thing That Walked on the Wind (Strange Tales, Jan 1933) The Horror from the Depths (with Mark Schorer; Strange Stories, Oct 1940) The House in the Valley (Weird Tales, Jul 1953)
Outside of Sauk City, Derleth is best known as H.P. Lovecraft’s publisher and the founder of Arkham House, a publishing company specializing in weird fiction that is still located in Sauk City, but is now all but defunct.
The Lurker at the Threshold is a horror novel by American writer August Derleth, based on short fragments written by H. P. Lovecraft, who died in 1937, and published as a collaboration between the two authors.
Biography. I was born 24 February 1909, in Sauk City, a small, largely German village, pleasantly situated on the west bank of the Wisconsin River in south central Wisconsin, one of two children of William Julius and Rose Louise (Volk) Derleth, who were, respectively, of French-Bavarian and Prussian-Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.
August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the ...
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Among the state’s most luminous assets is August Derleth, the internationally famous author of more than 150 books, many celebrating the Midwest and its people. Walden West , reissued here for the first time since its original publication in 1961, is considered by many to be Derleth s masterpiece.
Jan 1, 1997 · The Cthulhu Mythos. Hardcover – January 1, 1997. by August Derleth (Author) 4.4 28 ratings. See all formats and editions.
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