August Derleth (1909–1971)
Auteur van The Lurker at the Threshold
Over de Auteur
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, toon meer 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) toon minder
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Werken van August Derleth
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow : The Last Science Fiction Anthology (1999) — Redacteur — 23 exemplaren
The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (The Adventures of Solar Pons Book 6) (2018) 12 exemplaren
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. (1947) 12 exemplaren
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 1 6 exemplaren
Sleeping and the Dead, The: Thirty Uncanny Tales Selected by August Derleth (1947) — Compiler — 6 exemplaren
Praed Street Papers 5 exemplaren
Poetry Out of Wisconsin 5 exemplaren
No future for Luana 4 exemplaren
The Arkham Sampler, Spring 1949 4 exemplaren
The Arrival of Solar Pons: Early Manuscripts and Pulp Magazine Appearances of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 2 3 exemplaren
Otros mitos de Cthulhu / Other myths of Cthulhu (El Libro De Bolsillo. Bibliotecas Tematicas. Biblioteca De Fantasia Y… (2005) 3 exemplaren
The Metronome 3 exemplaren
The Return Of Hastur 3 exemplaren
The Drifting Snow 3 exemplaren
Dagon and other macabre tales: selected by August Derleth with texts edited by S.T. Joshi & an introduction by T.E.D.… (1986) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
Country poems 2 exemplaren
The Three Straw Men 2 exemplaren
Worlds of tomorrow. Short stories by various authors. Edited by A. Derleth (Science Fiction.) (1954) 2 exemplaren
The House of Moonlight 2 exemplaren
By owl light 2 exemplaren
The adventure of the Orient Express 2 exemplaren
Mrs. Manifold [short fiction] 2 exemplaren
Sweet Genevieve 2 exemplaren
Best Supernatural Stories of H.P. Lovecraft 2 exemplaren
August Derleth's Eerie Creatures 2 exemplaren
Arkham Collector #8 2 exemplaren
The Arkham Collector, Issue 6, Winter 1970 2 exemplaren
The Seal Of R’lyeh 2 exemplaren
The Lonesome Place 2 exemplaren
The Sandwin Compact 2 exemplaren
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number Nine, Spring 1971 2 exemplaren
Something In Wood 2 exemplaren
The Whippoorwills In The Hills 2 exemplaren
"H.P. LOVECRAFT" BOOKS: The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories / The Tomb and Other Tales 2 exemplaren
Hawk on the wind; poems 1 exemplaar
Three Who Died: A Judge Peck Mystery 1 exemplaar
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER COMPLETE SET 1 exemplaar
Others Deal in Death [Short Story] 1 exemplaar
The Arkham Sampler - Winter, 1948 1 exemplaar
Logoda's Heads 1 exemplaar
Innsmouth Clay 1 exemplaar
Witches hollow 1 exemplaar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Five, Summer 1969 1 exemplaar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Three, Summer 1968 1 exemplaar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Ten, Summer 1971 1 exemplaar
Arkham Collector: Numbers 1 and 2 1 exemplaar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number Two, Winter 1968 1 exemplaar
De verborgen bewoner 1 exemplaar
The Adventure of the Proper Comma (short story) 1 exemplaar
The Heritage of Sauk City 1 exemplaar
The House of Moonlight 1 exemplaar
H. P. LOVECRAFT: A Symposium - October 24 1963 1 exemplaar
Sentence deferred: a Judge Peck mystery 1 exemplaar
New poetry out of Wisconsin, 1 exemplaar
Caitlin 1 exemplaar
L'Amulette tibétaine 1 exemplaar
The beast in Holger's Woods, 1 exemplaar
The Arkham collector 1 exemplaar
WEIRD TALES JULY 1951 1 exemplaar
A Room in a House 1 exemplaar
The Man on B-17 1 exemplaar
The Extra Passenger 1 exemplaar
Death by design 1 exemplaar
Adventure Of The Grice Paterson Curse 1 exemplaar
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1949 1 exemplaar
A House above Cuzco 1 exemplaar
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1948 1 exemplaar
Habitant of Dusk, a Garland for Cassandra 1 exemplaar
Rendezvous in a Landscape 1 exemplaar
Nellie Foster 1 exemplaar
Pacific 421 1 exemplaar
Three Gentlemen in Black 1 exemplaar
The Panelled Room 1 exemplaar
The Return of Andrew Bentley 1 exemplaar
The Adventure Of The Intarsia Box 1 exemplaar
The Arkham Sampler: Autumn 1949 1 exemplaar
The Arkham Sampler: Winter 1949 1 exemplaar
The Arkham sampler 1 exemplaar
The Life of Henry David Thoreau: Concord rebel 1 exemplaar
The Lonesome Place [short story] 1 exemplaar
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number One, Summer 1967 1 exemplaar
Psyche 1 exemplaar
The Arkham Sampler: Spring 1948 1 exemplaar
August derleth Society Newsletter Vol.6 No.2 1 exemplaar
The Gable Window 1 exemplaar
Bat's belfry 1 exemplaar
Opere complete 1 exemplaar
Tempesta di neve 1 exemplaar
Mr. George {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Festival; Imprisoned With 1 exemplaar
TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2. Edited by August Derleth. Two volumes. (1969) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
El juez Peck investiga 1 exemplaar
Solar Pons #2 1 exemplaar
Aldous Huxley - Il sorriso della Gioconda | August W. Derleth - La signora Lannisfree | - Lettera noiosa — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065 1 exemplaar
THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER MAGAZINE: GREAT STORIES OF MYSTERY, DETECTION AND SUSPENSE [VOL. 1] NO. 5 (1952) 1 exemplaar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 072 1 exemplaar
Le mythe de Cthulhu 1 exemplaar
Who Knocks? 1 exemplaar
El que acecha en el umbral 1 exemplaar
The China Cottage 1 exemplaar
Death Holds the Post 1 exemplaar
MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY: A JUDGE PECK MYSTERY STORY [UK TITLE: DEATH STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY] (1934) 1 exemplaar
Les révisions de Lovecraft 1 exemplaar
Dictionnaire des auteurs 1 exemplaar
Concord Rebel A Life of Henry David Thoreau 1 exemplaar
St Ignatus and the company of Jesus 1 exemplaar
The shuttered room [short story] 1 exemplaar
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. 1 exemplaar
The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Islands 1 exemplaar
McIlvaine’s Star 1 exemplaar
The last of mr. Sherlock Holmes 1 exemplaar
Over the Edge 1 exemplaar
Poetry out of Wisconsin 1 exemplaar
Wisconsin country 1 exemplaar
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Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 6, December 1928 — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Direction, Volume 1, Number 2 (Jan-March 1935) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Derleth, August
- Officiële naam
- Derleth, August William
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Grendon, Stephen (nom de plume)
- Geboortedatum
- 1909-02-24
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1971-07-04
- Graflocatie
- St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- Derleth died of a heart attack
- Woonplaatsen
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Wisconsin (BA|1930)
- Beroepen
- editor
publisher - Korte biografie
- 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.
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THE DEEP ONES: "Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft in The Weird Tradition (augustus 2018)
Lovecraftian Criticism in The Weird Tradition (november 2017)
Lovecraftian Donnybrook in The Weird Tradition (oktober 2013)
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