August Derleth (1909–1971)
Auteur de Le rodeur devant le seuil
A propos de l'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, afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de August Derleth
Légendes du mythe de Cthulhu, Tome 2 : La chose des ténèbres (1989) — Directeur de publication — 45 exemplaires
The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible (1947) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow : The Last Science Fiction Anthology (1999) — Directeur de publication — 23 exemplaires
The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (The Adventures of Solar Pons Book 6) (2018) 12 exemplaires
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. (1947) 12 exemplaires
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 1 6 exemplaires
Sleeping and the Dead, The: Thirty Uncanny Tales Selected by August Derleth (1947) — Compiler — 6 exemplaires
Praed Street Papers 5 exemplaires
Poetry Out of Wisconsin 5 exemplaires
No future for Luana 4 exemplaires
The Arkham Sampler, Spring 1949 4 exemplaires
The Arrival of Solar Pons: Early Manuscripts and Pulp Magazine Appearances of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street — Auteur — 3 exemplaires
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 2 3 exemplaires
Otros mitos de Cthulhu / Other myths of Cthulhu (El Libro De Bolsillo. Bibliotecas Tematicas. Biblioteca De Fantasia Y… (2005) 3 exemplaires
The Metronome 3 exemplaires
The Return Of Hastur 3 exemplaires
The Drifting Snow 3 exemplaires
Worlds of Tomorrow (Berkley Books G-163) (1958) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Dagon and other macabre tales: selected by August Derleth with texts edited by S.T. Joshi & an introduction by T.E.D.… (1986) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Country poems 2 exemplaires
The Three Straw Men 2 exemplaires
Worlds of tomorrow. Short stories by various authors. Edited by A. Derleth (Science Fiction.) (1954) 2 exemplaires
The House of Moonlight 2 exemplaires
By owl light 2 exemplaires
The adventure of the Orient Express 2 exemplaires
Mrs. Manifold [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Sweet Genevieve 2 exemplaires
Best Supernatural Stories of H.P. Lovecraft 2 exemplaires
August Derleth's Eerie Creatures 2 exemplaires
Arkham Collector #8 2 exemplaires
The Arkham Collector, Issue 6, Winter 1970 2 exemplaires
The Seal Of R’lyeh 2 exemplaires
The Lonesome Place 2 exemplaires
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number Nine, Spring 1971 2 exemplaires
The Sandwin Compact 2 exemplaires
"H.P. LOVECRAFT" BOOKS: The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories / The Tomb and Other Tales 2 exemplaires
Something In Wood 2 exemplaires
The Whippoorwills In The Hills 2 exemplaires
Hawk on the wind; poems 1 exemplaire
Mr. Conservation: Carl Marty and his forest orphans 1 exemplaire
The Arkham Sampler - Winter, 1948 1 exemplaire
Three Who Died: A Judge Peck Mystery 1 exemplaire
Innsmouth Clay 1 exemplaire
AUGUST DERLETH: TWENTY YEARS OF WRITING 1926-1946 1 exemplaire
Others Deal in Death [Short Story] 1 exemplaire
The Heritage of Sauk City 1 exemplaire
Witches hollow 1 exemplaire
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Five, Summer 1969 1 exemplaire
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Three, Summer 1968 1 exemplaire
ARKHAM COLLECTOR , Number Ten, Summer 1971 1 exemplaire
Arkham Collector: Numbers 1 and 2 1 exemplaire
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number Two, Winter 1968 1 exemplaire
De verborgen bewoner 1 exemplaire
The Adventure of the Proper Comma (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Panelled Room 1 exemplaire
THE ARKHAM SAMPLER COMPLETE SET 1 exemplaire
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1949 1 exemplaire
Logoda's Heads 1 exemplaire
Death by design 1 exemplaire
New poetry out of Wisconsin, 1 exemplaire
Caitlin 1 exemplaire
L'Amulette tibétaine 1 exemplaire
Sentence deferred: a Judge Peck mystery 1 exemplaire
The beast in Holger's Woods, 1 exemplaire
WEIRD TALES JULY 1951 1 exemplaire
A Room in a House 1 exemplaire
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos By H.P. Lovecraft and Others (1969) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The Man on B-17 1 exemplaire
The Extra Passenger 1 exemplaire
The Arkham collector 1 exemplaire
H. P. LOVECRAFT: A Symposium - October 24 1963 1 exemplaire
Rendezvous in a Landscape 1 exemplaire
Adventure Of The Grice Paterson Curse 1 exemplaire
The Adventure Of The Intarsia Box 1 exemplaire
The House of Moonlight 1 exemplaire
A House above Cuzco 1 exemplaire
ARKHAM SAMPLER 1948 1 exemplaire
Habitant of Dusk, a Garland for Cassandra 1 exemplaire
Nellie Foster 1 exemplaire
Pacific 421 1 exemplaire
Three Gentlemen in Black 1 exemplaire
The Return of Andrew Bentley 1 exemplaire
Aldous Huxley - Il sorriso della Gioconda | August W. Derleth - La signora Lannisfree | - Lettera noiosa — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
The Arkham Sampler: Autumn 1949 1 exemplaire
The Arkham Sampler: Winter 1949 1 exemplaire
The Arkham sampler 1 exemplaire
The Life of Henry David Thoreau: Concord rebel 1 exemplaire
The Lonesome Place [short story] 1 exemplaire
Psyche 1 exemplaire
The Arkham Collector: Number Nine Only. Spring 1971 1 exemplaire
The Arkham Sampler: Spring 1948 1 exemplaire
August derleth Society Newsletter Vol.6 No.2 1 exemplaire
The Gable Window 1 exemplaire
Bat's belfry 1 exemplaire
Opere complete 1 exemplaire
Tempesta di neve 1 exemplaire
Mr. George {short story} 1 exemplaire
The Festival; Imprisoned With 1 exemplaire
TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2. Edited by August Derleth. Two volumes. (1969) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
El juez Peck investiga 1 exemplaire
Solar Pons #2 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 058 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 1 exemplaire
THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER MAGAZINE: GREAT STORIES OF MYSTERY, DETECTION AND SUSPENSE [VOL. 1] NO. 5 (1952) 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 072 1 exemplaire
Le mythe de Cthulhu 1 exemplaire
Who Knocks? 1 exemplaire
El que acecha en el umbral 1 exemplaire
The China Cottage 1 exemplaire
Death Holds the Post 1 exemplaire
MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY: A JUDGE PECK MYSTERY STORY [UK TITLE: DEATH STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY] (1934) 1 exemplaire
Les révisions de Lovecraft 1 exemplaire
Dictionnaire des auteurs 1 exemplaire
Concord Rebel A Life of Henry David Thoreau 1 exemplaire
St Ignatus and the company of Jesus 1 exemplaire
The shuttered room [short story] 1 exemplaire
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. 1 exemplaire
The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Islands 1 exemplaire
McIlvaine’s Star 1 exemplaire
The last of mr. Sherlock Holmes 1 exemplaire
Over the Edge 1 exemplaire
Poetry out of Wisconsin 1 exemplaire
Wisconsin country 1 exemplaire
ARKHAM COLLECTOR, Number One, Summer 1967 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contributeur — 264 exemplaires
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contributeur — 198 exemplaires
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A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contributeur — 92 exemplaires
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contributeur — 78 exemplaires
Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories about the World of Books (1985) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
Skull-Face Omnibus Volume 1: Skull-Face and Others (1946) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 44 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (2010) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 31 exemplaires
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 2 (1993) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes: A Panorama of Science Fiction (1973) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Fantastisia kertomuksia : antologia 11 exemplaires
Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants (1947) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 9 exemplaires
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 2, August-September 1936 — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
MIRAGE ON LOVECRAFT - A LITERARY VIEW — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 4, April 1933 — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 2, February 1933 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 4, October 1932 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 2, August 1938 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 2, August 1929 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 45 Number 3, July 1953 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 26 Number 5, November 1935 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 1, January 1936 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 6, December 1928 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Weird Tales Volume 38 Number 2, November 1944 — Contributeur; Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Direction, Volume 1, Number 2 (Jan-March 1935) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Derleth, August
- Nom légal
- Derleth, August William
- Autres noms
- Grendon, Stephen (nom de plume)
- Date de naissance
- 1909
- Date de décès
- 1971
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Cause du décès
- Derleth died of a heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Études
- University of Wisconsin (BA|1930)
- Professions
- editor
publisher - Courte biographie
- August Derleth est né en 1909 aux États-Unis, il est mort en 1971. Il devint le correspondant de Lovecraft en 1925, puis son ami. A la mort de ce dernier il poursuivit son œuvre fantastique à la fois comme écrivain et comme éditeur. Arkham House, sa maison d'édition, a ainsi permis de faire connaître l'intégrale des écrits de Lovecraft.
Membres
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft à The Weird Tradition (Août 2018)
Lovecraftian Criticism à The Weird Tradition (Novembre 2017)
Lovecraftian Donnybrook à The Weird Tradition (Octobre 2013)
Critiques
Listes
To Read - Horror (2)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 366
- Aussi par
- 188
- Membres
- 7,134
- Popularité
- #3,444
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 84
- ISBN
- 247
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 9