Author
August Derleth
August Derleth (1909-1971) was the American writer who co-founded Arkham House to keep H. P. Lovecraft's work in print after Lovecraft's death, who wrote Solar Pons (a Sherlock Holmes pastiche series), and who wrote the Sac Prairie regional novels alongside an enormous body of horror and fantasy editorial work.
Reviews
5
Books on file
6
Avg rating
Years active
1934-2000
Reviewed
Our reviews of August Derleth's work
Harrigan's File
by August Derleth
Harrigan's File by August Derleth review. A Judge Peck mystery from the Sac Prairie Saga. Quiet Wisconsin regional crime fiction by Derleth's less-famous detective sequence.
Murder Stalks The Wakely Family
by August Derleth
An August Derleth Judge Peck mystery. Quiet Sac Prairie Saga in detective form. Reliable regional crime.
Quest for Cthulhu
by August Derleth
Quest for Cthulhu by August Derleth review. A career-spanning omnibus of his Lovecraft Mythos continuation stories. The expansion-tradition's most controversial founder at full strength.
The Lurker At The Threshold
by August Derleth
The Lurker at the Threshold by August Derleth 1945 review. The first Derleth posthumous 'collaboration' with H. P. Lovecraft, building a Mythos novel from unfinished Lovecraft fragments.
The Watchers Out Of Time
by August Derleth
The Watchers Out of Time by August Derleth review. A 1974 collection of additional Derleth-Lovecraft 'posthumous collaborations' that round out the Mythos extension project.
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What we have said about August Derleth
The Lurker at the Threshold by August Derleth 1945 review. The first Derleth posthumous 'collaboration' with H. P. Lovecraft, building a Mythos novel from unfinished Lovecraft fragments.
Quest for Cthulhu by August Derleth review. A career-spanning omnibus of his Lovecraft Mythos continuation stories. The expansion-tradition's most controversial founder at full strength.
The Watchers Out of Time by August Derleth review. A 1974 collection of additional Derleth-Lovecraft 'posthumous collaborations' that round out the Mythos extension project.
Harrigan's File by August Derleth review. A Judge Peck mystery from the Sac Prairie Saga. Quiet Wisconsin regional crime fiction by Derleth's less-famous detective sequence.
An August Derleth Judge Peck mystery. Quiet Sac Prairie Saga in detective form. Reliable regional crime.
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