August Derleth (1909–1971)
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August Derleth was born on February 24, 1909 in Sauk City, Wisconsin. He sold his first story to Weird Tales at the age of 16. He received a Bachelor's of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin. After college, he went to work for Fawcett Publications as an editor for Mystic Magazine. In 1932, visa mer the first of his Sac Prairie stories was published in various local papers. In 1935, his first book, a collection of related novellas entitled Place of Hawks, was published. In 1937, his first Sac Prairie novel, Still is the Summer Night, was published. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1938 to help him continue the Sac Prairie saga. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 90 books including The Milwaukee Road, Still Small Voice, H.P.L.: A Memoir, Restless Is the River, The Hills Stand Watch, Sweet Genevieve, Evening in Spring, The Moon Tenders, The Captive Island, and Father Marquette and the Great River. He had upward of 3,000 works published in over 350 magazines including The Catholic World, The Yale Review, The New Republic, Redbook, The New Yorker, Good Housekeeping, and The American Mercury. He died on June 6, 1971. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Serier
Verk av August Derleth
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow : The Last Science Fiction Anthology (1999) — Redaktör — 23 exemplar
The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (The Adventures of Solar Pons Book 6) (2018) 12 exemplar
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. (1947) 12 exemplar
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 1 6 exemplar
Sleeping and the Dead, The: Thirty Uncanny Tales Selected by August Derleth (1947) — Compiler — 6 exemplar
Praed Street Papers 5 exemplar
Poetry Out of Wisconsin 5 exemplar
The Arkham Sampler, Spring 1949 4 exemplar
No future for Luana 3 exemplar
The Metronome 3 exemplar
The Arrival of Solar Pons: Early Manuscripts and Pulp Magazine Appearances of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street — Författare — 3 exemplar
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 2 3 exemplar
The Drifting Snow 3 exemplar
The Return Of Hastur 3 exemplar
Otros mitos de Cthulhu / Other myths of Cthulhu (El Libro De Bolsillo. Bibliotecas Tematicas. Biblioteca De Fantasia Y… (2005) 3 exemplar
Dagon and other macabre tales: selected by August Derleth with texts edited by S.T. Joshi & an introduction by T.E.D.… (1986) — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
The adventure of the Orient Express 2 exemplar
The Three Straw Men 2 exemplar
The House of Moonlight 2 exemplar
Country poems 2 exemplar
By owl light 2 exemplar
Worlds of tomorrow. Short stories by various authors. Edited by A. Derleth (Science Fiction.) (1954) 2 exemplar
Mrs. Manifold [short fiction] 2 exemplar
Sweet Genevieve 2 exemplar
Best Supernatural Stories of H.P. Lovecraft 2 exemplar
August Derleth's Eerie Creatures 2 exemplar
Arkham Collector #8 2 exemplar
The Lonesome Place 2 exemplar
The Arkham Collector, Issue 6, Winter 1970 2 exemplar
The Seal Of R’lyeh 2 exemplar
The Sandwin Compact 2 exemplar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number Nine, Spring 1971 2 exemplar
Something In Wood 2 exemplar
The Whippoorwills In The Hills 2 exemplar
"H.P. LOVECRAFT" BOOKS: The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories / The Tomb and Other Tales 2 exemplar
Hawk on the wind; poems 1 exemplar
Three Who Died: A Judge Peck Mystery 1 exemplar
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER COMPLETE SET 1 exemplar
The Arkham Sampler - Winter, 1948 1 exemplar
Others Deal in Death [Short Story] 1 exemplar
Logoda's Heads 1 exemplar
Innsmouth Clay 1 exemplar
Witches hollow 1 exemplar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Five, Summer 1969 1 exemplar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Three, Summer 1968 1 exemplar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Ten, Summer 1971 1 exemplar
Arkham Collector: Numbers 1 and 2 1 exemplar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number Two, Winter 1968 1 exemplar
De verborgen bewoner 1 exemplar
The Heritage of Sauk City 1 exemplar
The House of Moonlight 1 exemplar
Sentence deferred: a Judge Peck mystery 1 exemplar
New poetry out of Wisconsin, 1 exemplar
Caitlin 1 exemplar
L'Amulette tibétaine 1 exemplar
The beast in Holger's Woods, 1 exemplar
The Arkham collector 1 exemplar
WEIRD TALES JULY 1951 1 exemplar
A Room in a House 1 exemplar
The Man on B-17 1 exemplar
The Extra Passenger 1 exemplar
Death by design 1 exemplar
Adventure Of The Grice Paterson Curse 1 exemplar
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1949 1 exemplar
A House above Cuzco 1 exemplar
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1948 1 exemplar
Habitant of Dusk, a Garland for Cassandra 1 exemplar
Rendezvous in a Landscape 1 exemplar
Nellie Foster 1 exemplar
Pacific 421 1 exemplar
Three Gentlemen in Black 1 exemplar
The Panelled Room 1 exemplar
The Return of Andrew Bentley 1 exemplar
Aldous Huxley - Il sorriso della Gioconda | August W. Derleth - La signora Lannisfree | - Lettera noiosa — Författare — 1 exemplar
The Arkham Sampler: Winter 1949 1 exemplar
The Arkham sampler 1 exemplar
The Arkham Sampler: Spring 1948 1 exemplar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number One, Summer 1967 1 exemplar
Psyche 1 exemplar
The Arkham Sampler: Autumn 1949 1 exemplar
August derleth Society Newsletter Vol.6 No.2 1 exemplar
The Gable Window 1 exemplar
Bat's belfry 1 exemplar
Opere complete 1 exemplar
The Festival; Imprisoned With 1 exemplar
Tempesta di neve 1 exemplar
Mr. George {short story} 1 exemplar
TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2. Edited by August Derleth. Two volumes. (1969) — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
El juez Peck investiga 1 exemplar
The Lonesome Place [short story] 1 exemplar
Solar Pons #2 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 058 1 exemplar
The China Cottage 1 exemplar
THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER MAGAZINE: GREAT STORIES OF MYSTERY, DETECTION AND SUSPENSE [VOL. 1] NO. 5 (1952) 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 072 1 exemplar
Les révisions de Lovecraft 1 exemplar
Who Knocks? 1 exemplar
El que acecha en el umbral 1 exemplar
The Adventure Of The Intarsia Box 1 exemplar
Death Holds the Post 1 exemplar
MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY: A JUDGE PECK MYSTERY STORY [UK TITLE: DEATH STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY] (1934) 1 exemplar
Le mythe de Cthulhu 1 exemplar
Concord Rebel A Life of Henry David Thoreau 1 exemplar
St Ignatus and the company of Jesus 1 exemplar
The shuttered room [short story] 1 exemplar
Dictionnaire des auteurs 1 exemplar
The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Islands 1 exemplar
McIlvaine’s Star 1 exemplar
The last of mr. Sherlock Holmes 1 exemplar
Over the Edge 1 exemplar
Poetry out of Wisconsin 1 exemplar
Wisconsin country 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1963) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 607 exemplar
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 262 exemplar
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 198 exemplar
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 184 exemplar
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Bidragsgivare — 100 exemplar
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 91 exemplar
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Bidragsgivare — 88 exemplar
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 78 exemplar
Jul, jul, spännande jul : en novellsamling : [12 berömda författare om mord, magi och mysterier] (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 44 exemplar
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 41 exemplar
The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (2010) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 31 exemplar
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 2 (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Fantastisia kertomuksia : antologia 11 exemplar
Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes: A Panorama of Science Fiction (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 2, August-September 1936 — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 4, April 1933 — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
MIRAGE ON LOVECRAFT - A LITERARY VIEW — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 4, October 1932 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 2, August 1929 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 45 Number 3, July 1953 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 26 Number 5, November 1935 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 2, February 1933 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 1, January 1936 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 2, August 1938 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 38 Number 2, November 1944 — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Direction, Volume 1, Number 2 (Jan-March 1935) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 6, December 1928 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Derleth, August
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Derleth, August William
- Andra namn
- Grendon, Stephen (nom de plume)
- Födelsedag
- 1909-02-24
- Avled
- 1971-07-04
- Begravningsplats
- St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Dödsort
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Dödsorsak
- Derleth died of a heart attack
- Bostadsorter
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Utbildning
- University of Wisconsin (BA|1930)
- Yrken
- editor
publisher - Kort biografi
- August Derleth was born in 1909 in the United States, he died in 1971. He became a correspondent of Lovecraft in 1925, then his friend. At his death he continued his fantastic work both as a writer and as an editor. Arkham House, his publisher, has raised awareness of the complete writings of Lovecraft.
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
THE DEEP ONES: "Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft i The Weird Tradition (augusti 2018)
Lovecraftian Criticism i The Weird Tradition (november 2017)
Lovecraftian Donnybrook i The Weird Tradition (oktober 2013)
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To Read - Horror (2)
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