August Derleth (1909–1971)
Autor(a) de The Lurker at the Threshold
About the Author
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, mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de August Derleth
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow : The Last Science Fiction Anthology (1999) — Editor — 23 cópias
The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (The Adventures of Solar Pons Book 6) (2018) 12 cópias
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. (1947) 12 cópias
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 1 6 cópias
Sleeping and the Dead, The: Thirty Uncanny Tales Selected by August Derleth (1947) — Compiler — 6 cópias
Praed Street Papers 5 cópias
Poetry Out of Wisconsin 5 cópias
No future for Luana 4 cópias
The Arkham Sampler, Spring 1949 4 cópias
The Arrival of Solar Pons: Early Manuscripts and Pulp Magazine Appearances of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street — Autor — 3 cópias
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 2 3 cópias
Otros mitos de Cthulhu / Other myths of Cthulhu (El Libro De Bolsillo. Bibliotecas Tematicas. Biblioteca De Fantasia Y… (2005) 3 cópias
The Metronome 3 cópias
The Return Of Hastur 3 cópias
The Drifting Snow 3 cópias
Dagon and other macabre tales: selected by August Derleth with texts edited by S.T. Joshi & an introduction by T.E.D.… (1986) — Editor — 2 cópias
Country poems 2 cópias
The Three Straw Men 2 cópias
Worlds of tomorrow. Short stories by various authors. Edited by A. Derleth (Science Fiction.) (1954) 2 cópias
The House of Moonlight 2 cópias
By owl light 2 cópias
The adventure of the Orient Express 2 cópias
Mrs. Manifold [short fiction] 2 cópias
Sweet Genevieve 2 cópias
August Derleth's Eerie Creatures 2 cópias
Arkham Collector #8 2 cópias
The Seal Of R’lyeh 2 cópias
The Lonesome Place 2 cópias
The Sandwin Compact 2 cópias
"H.P. LOVECRAFT" BOOKS: The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories / The Tomb and Other Tales 2 cópias
Something In Wood 2 cópias
The Whippoorwills In The Hills 2 cópias
Hawk on the wind; poems 1 exemplar(es)
Mr. Conservation: Carl Marty and his forest orphans 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler - Winter, 1948 1 exemplar(es)
Three Who Died: A Judge Peck Mystery 1 exemplar(es)
Innsmouth Clay 1 exemplar(es)
AUGUST DERLETH: TWENTY YEARS OF WRITING 1926-1946 1 exemplar(es)
Others Deal in Death [Short Story] 1 exemplar(es)
The Heritage of Sauk City 1 exemplar(es)
Witches hollow 1 exemplar(es)
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Five, Summer 1969 1 exemplar(es)
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Three, Summer 1968 1 exemplar(es)
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Ten, Summer 1971 1 exemplar(es)
Arkham Collector: Numbers 1 and 2 1 exemplar(es)
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number Two, Winter 1968 1 exemplar(es)
De verborgen bewoner 1 exemplar(es)
The Adventure of the Proper Comma (short story) 1 exemplar(es)
The Panelled Room 1 exemplar(es)
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER COMPLETE SET 1 exemplar(es)
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1949 1 exemplar(es)
Logoda's Heads 1 exemplar(es)
Death by design 1 exemplar(es)
Murder stalks the Wakely family; a Judge Peck mystery story 1 exemplar(es)
New poetry out of Wisconsin, 1 exemplar(es)
Caitlin 1 exemplar(es)
L'Amulette tibétaine 1 exemplar(es)
Sentence deferred: a Judge Peck mystery 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler, Volume II, Number Four (Autumn 1949) 1 exemplar(es)
The beast in Holger's Woods, 1 exemplar(es)
WEIRD TALES JULY 1951 1 exemplar(es)
A Room in a House 1 exemplar(es)
The Man on B-17 1 exemplar(es)
The Extra Passenger 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham collector 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler, Volume II, Number Three (Summer 1949) 1 exemplar(es)
H. P. LOVECRAFT: A Symposium - October 24 1963 1 exemplar(es)
Rendezvous in a Landscape 1 exemplar(es)
Adventure Of The Grice Paterson Curse 1 exemplar(es)
The Adventure Of The Intarsia Box 1 exemplar(es)
The House of Moonlight 1 exemplar(es)
A House above Cuzco 1 exemplar(es)
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1948 1 exemplar(es)
Habitant of Dusk, a Garland for Cassandra 1 exemplar(es)
The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus [Solar Pons] 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler, Volume II, Number Two (Spring 1949) 1 exemplar(es)
Nellie Foster 1 exemplar(es)
Pacific 421 1 exemplar(es)
Three Gentlemen in Black 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler, Volume I, Number One (Winter 1948) 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler, Volume I, Number Two (Spring 1948) 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler, Volume I, Number Three (Summer 1948) 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler, Volume II, Number One (Winter 1949) 1 exemplar(es)
The Return of Andrew Bentley 1 exemplar(es)
Aldous Huxley - Il sorriso della Gioconda | August W. Derleth - La signora Lannisfree | - Lettera noiosa — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler: Autumn 1949 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler: Winter 1949 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham sampler 1 exemplar(es)
The Life of Henry David Thoreau: Concord rebel 1 exemplar(es)
The Lonesome Place [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Psyche 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Collector: Number Nine Only. Spring 1971 1 exemplar(es)
The Arkham Sampler: Spring 1948 1 exemplar(es)
August derleth Society Newsletter Vol.6 No.2 1 exemplar(es)
Selected letters. 5, 1934 - 1937 / ed. by August Derleth 1 exemplar(es)
The Gable Window 1 exemplar(es)
Bat's belfry 1 exemplar(es)
Opere complete 1 exemplar(es)
Tempesta di neve 1 exemplar(es)
Mr. George {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
The Festival; Imprisoned With 1 exemplar(es)
TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2. Edited by August Derleth. Two volumes. (1969) — Editor — 1 exemplar(es)
El juez Peck investiga 1 exemplar(es)
Solar Pons #2 1 exemplar(es)
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 058 1 exemplar(es)
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 1 exemplar(es)
The Black Island, Being: The Narrative Of Horvath Blayne 1 exemplar(es)
The Keeper Of The Key, Being: The Statement Of Nayland Colum 1 exemplar(es)
THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER MAGAZINE: GREAT STORIES OF MYSTERY, DETECTION AND SUSPENSE [VOL. 1] NO. 5 (1952) 1 exemplar(es)
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065 1 exemplar(es)
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 072 1 exemplar(es)
Le mythe de Cthulhu 1 exemplar(es)
Who Knocks? 1 exemplar(es)
El que acecha en el umbral 1 exemplar(es)
The China Cottage 1 exemplar(es)
Selected letters. 2, 1925 - 1929 / ed. by August Derleth 1 exemplar(es)
Death Holds the Post 1 exemplar(es)
MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY: A JUDGE PECK MYSTERY STORY [UK TITLE: DEATH STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY] (1934) 1 exemplar(es)
Les révisions de Lovecraft 1 exemplar(es)
Dictionnaire des auteurs 1 exemplar(es)
Concord Rebel A Life of Henry David Thoreau 1 exemplar(es)
St Ignatus and the company of Jesus 1 exemplar(es)
The shuttered room [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. 1 exemplar(es)
The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Islands 1 exemplar(es)
McIlvaine’s Star 1 exemplar(es)
The last of mr. Sherlock Holmes 1 exemplar(es)
Over the Edge 1 exemplar(es)
Poetry out of Wisconsin 1 exemplar(es)
Wisconsin country 1 exemplar(es)
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number One, Summer 1967 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1963) — Introdução, algumas edições — 611 cópias
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contribuinte — 264 cópias
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contribuinte — 198 cópias
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 1 (1984) — Contribuinte — 194 cópias
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contribuinte — 184 cópias
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Contribuinte — 100 cópias
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contribuinte — 92 cópias
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Contribuinte — 88 cópias
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contribuinte — 78 cópias
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Contribuinte — 44 cópias
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contribuinte — 41 cópias
The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (2010) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 31 cópias
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 2 (1993) — Contribuinte — 20 cópias
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes: A Panorama of Science Fiction (1973) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
Fantastisia kertomuksia : antologia 11 cópias
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 2, August-September 1936 — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
MIRAGE ON LOVECRAFT - A LITERARY VIEW — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 4, April 1933 — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 2, February 1933 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 4, October 1932 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 2, August 1938 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 2, August 1929 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 45 Number 3, July 1953 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 26 Number 5, November 1935 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 1, January 1936 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 6, December 1928 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Weird Tales Volume 38 Number 2, November 1944 — Contribuinte; Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Direction, Volume 1, Number 2 (Jan-March 1935) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Derleth, August
- Nome de batismo
- Derleth, August William
- Outros nomes
- Grendon, Stephen (nom de plume)
- Data de nascimento
- 1909-02-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1971-07-04
- Local de enterro
- St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Causa da morte
- Derleth died of a heart attack
- Locais de residência
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Educação
- University of Wisconsin (BA|1930)
- Ocupação
- editor
publisher - Pequena biografia
- 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.
Membros
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft em The Weird Tradition (Agosto 2018)
Lovecraftian Criticism em The Weird Tradition (Novembro 2017)
Lovecraftian Donnybrook em The Weird Tradition (Outubro 2013)
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- ISBNs
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