August Derleth (1909–1971)
Autore di The Lurker at the Threshold
Sull'Autore
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, mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di August Derleth
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow : The Last Science Fiction Anthology (1999) — A cura di — 23 copie
The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (The Adventures of Solar Pons Book 6) (2018) 12 copie
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. (1947) 12 copie
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 1 6 copie
Sleeping and the Dead, The: Thirty Uncanny Tales Selected by August Derleth (1947) — Compiler — 6 copie
Praed Street Papers 5 copie
Poetry Out of Wisconsin 5 copie
No future for Luana 4 copie
The Arkham Sampler, Spring 1949 4 copie
The Arrival of Solar Pons: Early Manuscripts and Pulp Magazine Appearances of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street — Autore — 3 copie
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 2 3 copie
Otros mitos de Cthulhu / Other myths of Cthulhu (El Libro De Bolsillo. Bibliotecas Tematicas. Biblioteca De Fantasia Y… (2005) 3 copie
The Metronome 3 copie
The Return Of Hastur 3 copie
The Drifting Snow 3 copie
Dagon and other macabre tales: selected by August Derleth with texts edited by S.T. Joshi & an introduction by T.E.D.… (1986) — A cura di — 2 copie
Country poems 2 copie
The Three Straw Men 2 copie
Worlds of tomorrow. Short stories by various authors. Edited by A. Derleth (Science Fiction.) (1954) 2 copie
The House of Moonlight 2 copie
By owl light 2 copie
Mrs. Manifold [short fiction] 2 copie
Sweet Genevieve 2 copie
August Derleth's Eerie Creatures 2 copie
Arkham Collector #8 2 copie
The Seal Of R’lyeh 2 copie
The Lonesome Place 2 copie
The Sandwin Compact 2 copie
"H.P. LOVECRAFT" BOOKS: The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories / The Tomb and Other Tales 2 copie
Something In Wood 2 copie
The Whippoorwills In The Hills 2 copie
Hawk on the wind; poems 1 copia
Innsmouth Clay 1 copia
The Heritage of Sauk City 1 copia
Witches hollow 1 copia
De verborgen bewoner 1 copia
The Panelled Room 1 copia
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER COMPLETE SET 1 copia
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1949 1 copia
Logoda's Heads 1 copia
Death by design 1 copia
New poetry out of Wisconsin, 1 copia
Caitlin 1 copia
L'Amulette tibétaine 1 copia
The beast in Holger's Woods, 1 copia
WEIRD TALES JULY 1951 1 copia
A Room in a House 1 copia
The Man on B-17 1 copia
The Extra Passenger 1 copia
The Arkham collector 1 copia
Rendezvous in a Landscape 1 copia
The House of Moonlight 1 copia
A House above Cuzco 1 copia
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1948 1 copia
Nellie Foster 1 copia
Pacific 421 1 copia
Three Gentlemen in Black 1 copia
The Return of Andrew Bentley 1 copia
Aldous Huxley - Il sorriso della Gioconda | August W. Derleth - La signora Lannisfree | - Lettera noiosa — Autore — 1 copia
The Arkham Sampler: Autumn 1949 1 copia
The Arkham Sampler: Winter 1949 1 copia
The Arkham sampler 1 copia
The Lonesome Place [short story] 1 copia
Psyche 1 copia
The Arkham Sampler: Spring 1948 1 copia
The Gable Window 1 copia
Bat's belfry 1 copia
Opere complete 1 copia
Tempesta di neve 1 copia
Mr. George {short story} 1 copia
The Festival; Imprisoned With 1 copia
TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2. Edited by August Derleth. Two volumes. (1969) — A cura di — 1 copia
El juez Peck investiga 1 copia
Solar Pons #2 1 copia
THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER MAGAZINE: GREAT STORIES OF MYSTERY, DETECTION AND SUSPENSE [VOL. 1] NO. 5 (1952) 1 copia
Le mythe de Cthulhu 1 copia
Who Knocks? 1 copia
El que acecha en el umbral 1 copia
The China Cottage 1 copia
Death Holds the Post 1 copia
MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY: A JUDGE PECK MYSTERY STORY [UK TITLE: DEATH STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY] (1934) 1 copia
Les révisions de Lovecraft 1 copia
Dictionnaire des auteurs 1 copia
The shuttered room [short story] 1 copia
McIlvaine’s Star 1 copia
The last of mr. Sherlock Holmes 1 copia
Over the Edge 1 copia
Poetry out of Wisconsin 1 copia
Wisconsin country 1 copia
Opere correlate
The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1963) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 612 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Collaboratore — 264 copie
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Collaboratore — 198 copie
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 1 (1984) — Collaboratore — 194 copie
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Collaboratore — 100 copie
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Collaboratore — 78 copie
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Collaboratore — 44 copie
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (2010) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 31 copie
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 2 (1993) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes: A Panorama of Science Fiction (1973) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Fantastisia kertomuksia : antologia 11 copie
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 2, August-September 1936 — Collaboratore — 4 copie
The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes — Collaboratore — 3 copie
MIRAGE ON LOVECRAFT - A LITERARY VIEW — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 4, April 1933 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 2, February 1933 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 4, October 1932 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 2, August 1938 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 2, August 1929 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 45 Number 3, July 1953 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 26 Number 5, November 1935 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 1, January 1936 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 6, December 1928 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Weird Tales Volume 38 Number 2, November 1944 — Collaboratore; Collaboratore — 1 copia
Direction, Volume 1, Number 2 (Jan-March 1935) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Derleth, August
- Nome legale
- Derleth, August William
- Altri nomi
- Grendon, Stephen (nom de plume)
- Data di nascita
- 1909-02-24
- Data di morte
- 1971-07-04
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Causa della morte
- Derleth died of a heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Wisconsin (BA|1930)
- Attività lavorative
- editor
publisher - Breve 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.
Utenti
Discussioni
THE DEEP ONES: "Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft in The Weird Tradition (Agosto 2018)
Lovecraftian Criticism in The Weird Tradition (Novembre 2017)
Lovecraftian Donnybrook in The Weird Tradition (Ottobre 2013)
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