August Derleth bibliography

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This is a list of the writings of the American writer August Derleth.

Novels[]

Sac Prairie Saga
  • Still is the Summer Night (1937)
  • Wind Over Wisconsin (1938)
  • Any Day Now (1938)
  • Restless is the River (1939)
  • Evening in Spring (1941)
  • Sweet Genevieve (1942)
  • Shadow of Night (1943)
  • The Shield of the Valiant (1945)
  • The House of Moonlight (1953)

Mill Creek Irregulars

  • The Moon Tenders (1958)
  • The Mill Creek Irregulars (1959)
  • The Pinkertons Ride Again (1960)
  • The Ghost of Blackhawk Island (1961)
  • The Tent Show Summer (1963)
  • The Irregulars Strike Again (1964)
  • The House by the River (1965)
  • The Watcher on the Heights (1966)
  • The Prince Goes West (1968)
  • Three Straw Men (1970)



Other

  • Murder Stalks the Wakely Family (1934)
  • The Man on All Fours (1934)
  • Three Who Died (1935)
  • Sign of Fear (1935)
  • Sentence Deferred (1939)
  • The Narracong Riddle (1940)
  • Bright Journey (1940)
  • The Seven Who Waited (1943)
  • Mischief in the Lane (1944)
  • No Future for Luana (1945)
  • Oliver, The Wayward Owl (1945)
  • The Country of the Hawk (1952)
  • The Captive Island (1952)
  • Fell Purpose (1953)
  • Death by Design (1953)
  • Empire of Fur (1953)
  • Land of Gray Gold (1954)
  • Land of Sky Blue Waters (1955)
  • The House on the Mound (1958)
  • Wilbur, The Trusting Whippoorwill (1959)
  • Sweet Land of Michigan (1962)
  • The Beast in Holger's Woods (1968)

Sac Prairie Saga[]

  • Place of Hawks (1935)
  • Country Growth (1940)
  • Wisconsin Earth: A Sac Prairie Sampler (1948)
  • Sac Prairie People (1948)
  • Wisconsin in Their Bones (1961)
  • Country Matters (1996)
  • Return to Sac Prairie (1996)
  • The Lost Sac Prairie Novels (2000), including The Odyssey of Janna Meade (first published in the Star Weekly magazine December 3, 1949); The Wind in the Cedars (also as Happiness Shall Not Escape) (first published in Redbook Magazine, January 1946), Lamplight for the Dark (first published in Redbook Magazine January 1941); Shane's Girls (also as Happiness is a Gift) (first published in Redbook Magazine 1948)

Solar Pons[]

Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos[]

Science fiction[]

Other[]

  • Consider Your Verdict (1937) as Tally Mason

Short fiction[]

Derleth's novelette "The Seal of the Damned" was the cover story in the July 1957 issue of Fantastic Universe, illustrated by Virgil Finlay
  • Bat's Belfry (1926)
  • The Coffin of Lissa (1926)
  • The Devil's Pay (1926)
  • The Night Rider (1927)
  • The River (1927)
  • The Sleepers (1927)
  • The Turret Room (1927)
  • The Conradi Affair (1928) with Carl W. Ganzlin
  • The Philosophers' Stone (1928)
  • The Statement of Justin Parker (1928)
  • The Tenant at Number Seven (1928)
  • The Tenant (1928)
  • The Three-Storied House (1928)
  • "Melodie in E Minor" (1929)
  • The Deserted Garden (1929)
  • A Dinner at Imola (1929)
  • He Shall Come (1929)
  • The House on the Highway (1929)
  • The Inheritors (1929)
  • An Occurrence in an Antique Shop (1929)
  • Old Mark (1929)
  • Scarlatti's Bottle (1929)
  • The Adventure of the Black Cardinal (1930)[1]
  • "Just a Song at Twilight" (1930)
  • Across the Hall (1930)
  • The Lilac Bush (1930)
  • A Matter of Sight (1930)
  • Mrs. Bentley's Daughter (1930)
  • The Pacer (1930)
  • The Portrait (1930)
  • The Whistler (1930)
  • The Bridge of Sighs (1931)
  • The Captain Is Afraid (1931)
  • Prince Borgia's Mass (1931)
  • The Bishop Sees Through (1932)
  • The Shadow on the Sky (1932)
  • The Sheraton Mirror (1932)
  • Those Who Seek (1932)
  • The House In the Magnolias (1932)
  • Birkett's Twelfth Corpse (1933)
  • An Elegy for Mr. Danielson (1933)
  • Nellie Foster (1933)
  • The Thing that Walked on the Wind (1933)
  • The Vanishing of Simmons (1933)
  • The White Moth (1933)
  • A Cloak From Messer Lando (1934)
  • Feigman's Beard (1934)
  • The Metronome (1934)
  • Wild Grapes (1934)
  • Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream (1935)
  • Muggridge's Aunt (1935)
  • Lesandro's Familiar (1936)
  • The Return of Sarah Purcell (1936)
  • The Satin Mask (1936)
  • The Telephone in the Library (1936)
  • Glory Hand (1937)
  • McGovern's Obsession (1937)
  • The Panelled Room (1937)
  • The Shuttered House (1937)
  • The Wind from the River (1937)
  • Three Gentlemen in Black (1938)
  • Logoda's Heads (1939)
  • Mrs. Elting Does Her Part (1939)
  • The Second Print (1939)
  • The Return of Hastur (1939)
  • After You, Mr. Henderson (1940)
  • Bramwell's Guardian (1940)
  • The Sandwin Compact (1940)
  • "Come to Me!" (1941)
  • Altimer's Amulet (1941)
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  • Compliments of Spectro (1941)
  • Ithaqua (1941)
  • Here, Daemos! (1942)
  • Lansing's Luxury (1942)
  • Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind (1942)
  • Headlines for Tod Shayne (1942)
  • Mr. Ames' Devil (1942)
  • Baynter's Imp (1943)
  • McElwin's Glass (1943)
  • No Light for Uncle Henry (1943)
  • A Thin Gentleman with Gloves (1943)
  • A Wig for Miss DeVore (1943)
  • No Light for Uncle Henry (1943)
  • The Dweller in Darkness (1944)
  • Lady Macbeth of Pimley Square (1944)
  • Pacific 421 (1944)
  • The Trail of Cthulhu (also as The House on Curwen Street) (1944)
  • Carousel (1945)
  • The God-Box (1945)
  • The Inverness Cape (1945)
  • The Lost Day (1945)
  • Mrs. Lannisfree (1945)
  • The Watcher from the Sky (1945)
  • A Collector of Stones (1946)
  • Pikeman (1946)
  • A Little Knowledge (1948)
  • The Lonesome Place (1948)
  • Saunder's Little Friend (1948)
  • Something in Wood (1948)
  • The Whippoorwills in the Hills (1948)
  • Kingsridge 214 (1949)
  • The Slayers and the Slain (1949)
  • The Testament of Claiborne Boyd (also as The Gorge Beyond Salapunco) (1949)
  • Twilight Play (1949)
  • The Closing Door (1950)
  • The Fifth Child (1950)
  • The Island Out of Space (1950)
  • The Ormolu Clock (1950)
  • Potts' Triumph (1950)
  • A Room in a House (1950)
  • The Keeper of the Key (1951)
  • A Knocking in the Wall (1951)
  • The Man Who Rode the Saucer (1951)
  • The Other Side of the Wall (1951)
  • Something from Out There (1951)
  • "Who Shall I Say is Calling?" (1952)
  • The Black Island (1952)
  • The Lost Path (1952)
  • McIlvaine's Star (1952)
  • The Night Road (1952)
  • The Place of Desolation (1952)
  • "Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall" (1953)
  • Century Jumper (1953)
  • A Corner for Lucia (1953)
  • The Detective and the Senator (1953)
  • The Disc Recorder (1953)
  • The Ebony Stick (1953)
  • The House in the Valley (1953)
  • Invaders from the Microcosm (1953)
  • The Maugham Obsession (1953)
  • A Traveler in Time (1953)
  • Mark VII (1954)
  • The Mechanical House (1954)
  • The Penfield Misadventure (1954)
  • The Place in the Woods (1954)
  • The Remarkable Dingdong (1954)
  • Thinker, Mark VII (1954)
  • The Dark Boy (1956)
  • The Martian Artifact (1957)
  • The Seal of R'lyeh (1957)
  • Halloween for Mr. Faulkner (1959)
  • Lovecraft and "The Pacer" (excerpt) (1959)
  • The Adventure of the Intarsia Box (1964)
  • By Rocket to the Moon (1965)
  • Ferguson's Capsules (1966)
  • The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians (1968)
  • An Eye for History (1975)
  • Protoplasma (1975)

Journals (Sac Prairie Saga)[]

  • Atmosphere of Houses (1939)
  • Village Year: A Sac Prairie Journal (1941)
  • Village Daybook (1947)
  • Countryman's Journal (1963)
  • Walden West (1961)
  • Wisconsin Country: A Sac Prairie Journal (1965)
  • Return to Walden West (1970)

Poems[]

  • Incubus (1934)
  • Omega (1934)
  • To a Spaceship (1934)
  • Man and the Cosmos (1935)
  • "Only Deserted" (1937)
  • The Shores of Night (1947)
  • Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight (1948)
  • Jacksnipe Over (1971)
  • Something Left Behind (1971)

Poetry collections[]

  • Hawk on the Wind (1938)
  • Man Track Here (1939)
  • Here on a Darkling Plain (1940)
  • Wind in the Elms (1941)
  • Rind of Earth (1942)
  • And You, Thoreau! (1944)
  • Selected Poems (1944)
  • The Edge of Night (1945)
  • Habitant of Dusk (1946)
  • A Boy's Way (1947) (Illustrated by )
  • It's a Boy's World (1948)
  • Rendezvous in a Landscape (1952)
  • Psyche (1953)
  • Country Poems (1956)
  • West of Morning (1960)
  • This Wound (1962)

Essays/articles[]

  • Introduction (The Mask of Cthulhu) (unknown)
  • Foreword (Who Knocks?) (1946)
  • Foreword (The Night Side) (1947)
  • Introduction (The Sleeping and the Dead) (1947)
  • Foreword (Not Long for This World) (1948)
  • Introduction (Strange Ports of Call) (1948)
  • Introduction (The Other Side of the Moon) (1949)
  • Introduction (Beyond Time and Space) (1950)
  • Foreword (The Outer Reaches) (1951)
  • Introduction (The Haunter of the Dark) (1951)
  • Introduction (Beachheads in Space) (1952)
  • Introduction (Worlds of Tomorrow) (1953)
  • Foreword (Time to Come) (1954)
  • Introduction (Beachheads in Space) (1954)
  • Introduction (Portals of Tomorrow) (1954)
  • Introduction (Worlds of Tomorrow) (1955)
  • Foreword (Dark Mind, Dark Heart) (1962)
  • Foreword (Time to Come) (1963)
  • H. P. Lovecraft And His Work (1963)
  • H. P. Lovecraft And His Work (1963)
  • Introduction (Mr. George and Other Odd Persons) (1963)
  • Introduction (Worlds of Tomorrow) (1963)
  • Introduction (Beachheads in Space) (1964)
  • Introduction (From Other Worlds) (1964)
  • Foreword (The Night Side) (1966)
  • Foreword (The Unspeakable People) (1969)
  • Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy (1974) with Donald Wandrei

Biography[]

  • Still Small Voice (1940) – biography of newspaperwoman and writer Zona Gale
  • H.P.L.: A Memoir (1945)
  • Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft (1959)
  • Concord Rebel: A Life of Henry D. Thoreau (1962)
  • Forest Orphans: Carl Marty and His Animal Friends (1964)
  • Emerson, Our Contemporary (1970)

History[]

Anthologies[]

As Stephen Grendon[]

  • The Drifting Snow (1939)
  • A Gentleman from Prague (1944)
  • Alannah (1945)
  • Dead Man's Shoes (1946)
  • Bishop's Gambit (1947)
  • The Extra Passenger (1947)
  • The Ghost Walk (1947)
  • Mr. George (1947)
  • Parrington's Pool (1947)
  • Blessed Are the Meek (1948)
  • Mara (1948)
  • The Night Train to Lost Valley (1948)
  • The Tsanta in the Parlor (1948)
  • The Tsantsa in the Parlor (1948)
  • The Wind in the Lilacs (1948)
  • The Blue Spectacles (1949)
  • Mrs. Manifold (1949)
  • Open, Sesame! (1949)
  • The Song of the Pewee (1949)
  • The Man on B-17 (1950)
  • Balu (1949)
  • Miss Esperson (1962)

“With H. P. Lovecraft”[]

  • The Lurker at the Threshold (1945)
  • The Survivor (1954)
  • Wentworth's Day (1957)
  • The Gable Window (1957)
  • The Shadow Out of Space (1957)
  • The Ancestor (1957)
  • The Lamp of Alhazred (1957)
  • The Peabody Heritage (1957)
  • The Shuttered Room (1959)
  • The Dark Brotherhood (1966)
  • The Horror from the Middle Span (1967)
  • Innsmouth Clay (1971)
  • The Watchers Out of Time (1974) (unfinished)

With Marc R. Schorer[]

  • The Elixir of Life (1926)
  • The Marmoset (1926)
  • The Black Castle (1927)
  • The Owl on the Moor (1928)
  • Riders in the Sky (1928)
  • The Pacer (1930)
  • In the Left Wing (1932)
  • The Lair of the Star-Spawn (1932)
  • Laughter in the Night (1932)
  • Red Hands (1932)
  • The Carven Image (1933)
  • The Return of Andrew Bentley (1933)
  • Colonel Markesan (1934)
  • A Matter of Faith (1934)
  • Death Holds the Post (1936)
  • They Shall Rise (1936)
  • The Woman at Loon Point (1936)
  • Spawn of the Maelstrom (1939)
  • The Vengeance of Ai (1939)
  • The Occupant of the Crypt (1947)
  • The Figure with the Scythe (1973)

Other collaborations[]

  • The Churchyard Yew (1947) as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • The Adventure of the Snitch in Time (1953) with Mack Reynolds
  • The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus (1955) with Mack Reynolds
  • The House in the Oaks (1971) with Robert E. Howard

References[]

  1. ^ Gangster Stories, March 1930.


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