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August Derleth

Born

in Sauk City, Wisconsin, The United States

February 24, 1909

Died

July 04, 1971

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Horror

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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 hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography

A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, ...more

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	Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 2 by August Derleth (editor), H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch 4.41 avg rating — 3,291 ratings — published 1969 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 1 by August Derleth (Editor), H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith 4.32 avg rating — 2,202 ratings — published 1969 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lurker at the Threshold by August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft (Credited as co-author) 3.84 avg rating — 2,075 ratings — published 1945 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mask of Cthulhu 3.73 avg rating — 1,182 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Watchers Out of Time by August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft (Credited as co-author) 3.72 avg rating — 1,095 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Terror by August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft (Credited as co-author) 3.92 avg rating — 762 ratings — published 1959 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trail of Cthulhu 3.45 avg rating — 676 ratings — published 1962 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Solar Pons by August Derleth, Vincent Starrett (Introduction), Gino D'Achille (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1945 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memoirs of Solar Pons 4.08 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1951 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Survivor and Others by August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft 3.78 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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August Derleth's "Posthumous Collaborations" (4 books)
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H.P. Lovecraft (Credited as co-author)

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Solar Pons (20 books)
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Allen J. Hubin (Introduction)

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Sac Prairie Saga (1 book)
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The Mill Creek Irregulars (10 books)
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Judge Peck (10 books)
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When genres cross and stories wander, interesting things can happen. Consider the curious case of the Supernatural Investigator, a...

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“Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")”
― August Derleth

tags: children, imagination

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“It is significant, I sometimes think, that the facets of nature which quicken my pulse with that awareness of both life and death are inextricably associated with the loneliness of man’s mote-like existence in the cosmos―and acceptance of man’s essential solitude on earth, or by love, or both together, for they are only different aspects of the same face.”
― August Derleth, Walden West

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“There was something about him where he stood all by himself under the trees and the stars, on the edge of the streetlight’s glow in the darkness, that was symbolic of many men and women, not alone in this Sac Prairie, but in all the Sac Prairies of the world, something which spoke, out of that pathetic, ludicrous figure, of the spiritual isolation of so many people, something which made the thoughtful onlooker to wonder what thin line divided him from that other, knowing perhaps that the distance of chance or Providence was less great than the few steps separating one from the other in that darkness.”
― August Derleth, Walden West

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