August Derleth

Born: 1909-02-24, Died: 1971-07-04

Biography

Born in Sauk City, Wisconsin.

Bibliography

  1. 1926-05-00 “Bat’s Belfry”
  2. 1926-07-00 “The Elixir of Life”
  3. 1926-08-00 “Mr. Ames’ Devil”
  4. 1926-08-00 “The Devil’s Pay”
  5. 1926-09-00 “The Marmoset”
  6. 1926-10-00 “The Coffin of Lissa”
  7. 1927-01-00 “The Night Rider”
  8. 1927-02-00 “The River”
  9. 1927-05-00 “The Black Castle”
  10. 1927-09-00 “The Turret Room”
  11. 1927-12-00 “The Sleepers”
  12. 1928-03-00 “The Tenant”
  13. 1928-05-00 “Riders in the Sky”
  14. 1928-06-00 “The Philosophers’ Stone”
  15. 1928-07-00 “The Three-Storied House”
  16. 1928-09-00 “The Owl on the Moor”
  17. 1928-10-00 “The Conradi Affair”
  18. 1928-11-00 “The Tenant at Number Seven”
  19. 1928-12-00 “The Statement of Justin Parker”
  20. 1929-00-00 “The Adventure of the Missing Tenants”
  21. 1929-01-00 “An Occurrence in an Antique Shop”
  22. 1929-02-00 “Melodie in E Minor”
  23. 1929-02-00 “The Adventure of the Black Narcissus”
  24. 1929-03-00 “The Deserted Garden”
  25. 1929-04-00 “A Dinner at Imola”
  26. 1929-06-00 “The House on the Highway”
  27. 1929-08-00 “Old Mark”
  28. 1929-09-00 “The Adventure of the Broken Chessmen”
  29. 1929-11-00 “Scarlatti’s Bottle”
  30. 1929-12-00 “He Shall Come”
  31. 1929-12-00 “The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham”
  32. 1929-12-00 “The Adventure of the Limping Man”
  33. 1929-12-00 “The Inheritors”
  34. 1930-01-00 “A Matter of Sight”
  35. 1930-02-00 “The Lilac Bush”
  36. 1930-03-00 “The Adventure of the Black Cardinal”
  37. 1930-03-00 “The Pacer”
  38. 1930-04-00 “The Portrait”
  39. 1930-05-00 “The Whistler”
  40. 1930-06-00 “Across the Hall”
  41. 1930-08-00 “Just a Song at Twilight”
  42. 1930-10-00 “Mrs. Bentley’s Daughter”
  43. 1931-00-00 “Ghosts Who Return to Re-Enact Their Crimes”
  44. 1931-07-00 “Wraiths of the Sea”
  45. 1931-08-00 “Prince Borgia’s Mass”
  46. 1931-09-00 “The Bridge of Sighs”
  47. 1931-10-00 “The Captain Is Afraid”
  48. 1932-00-00 “A Battle Over the Tea-Cups”
  49. 1932-01-00 “The Shadow on the Sky”
  50. 1932-01-00 “Those Who Seek”
  51. 1932-03-00 “Laughter in the Night”
  52. 1932-05-00 “The Bishop Sees Through”
  53. 1932-06-00 “In the Left Wing”
  54. 1932-06-00 “The House in the Magnolias”
  55. 1932-08-00 “The Lair of the Star-Spawn”
  56. 1932-09-00 “The Sheraton Mirror”
  57. 1932-10-00 “Red Hands”
  58. 1933-01-00 “The Thing That Walked on the Wind”
  59. 1933-02-00 “The Vanishing of Simmons”
  60. 1933-04-00 “Mr. Jimson Assists”
  61. 1933-04-00 “The White Moth”
  62. 1933-05-00 “The Carven Image”
  63. 1933-06-00 “Nellie Foster”
  64. 1933-08-00 “An Elegy for Mr. Danielson”
  65. 1933-09-00 “The Panelled Room”
  66. 1933-09-00 “The Return of Andrew Bentley”
  67. 1933-12-00 “Birkett’s Twelfth Corpse”
  68. 1934-00-00 “The Metronome”
  69. 1934-00-00 Murder Stalks the Wakely Family
  70. 1934-00-00 The Man on All Fours
  71. 1934-00-00 “A Ride Home”
  72. 1934-05-00 “Phantom Lights”
  73. 1934-05-00 “The Cossacks Ride Hard”
  74. 1934-06-00 “Colonel Markesan”
  75. 1934-06-00 “The Incredible Dr. Markesan”
  76. 1934-07-00 “Wild Grapes”
  77. 1934-09-00 “A Cloak from Messer Lando”
  78. 1934-11-00 “Feigman’s Beard”
  79. 1934-12-00 “A Matter of Faith”
  80. 1935-00-00 Sign of Fear
  81. 1935-00-00 Three Who Died
  82. 1935-00-00 “Farway House”
  83. 1935-00-00 “Five Alone”
  84. 1935-00-00 “Nine Strands in a Web”
  85. 1935-00-00 “Place of Hawks”
  86. 1935-02-00 “The Slanting Shadow”
  87. 1935-05-00 “Muggridge’s Aunt”
  88. 1935-06-00 “Expedition to the North”
  89. 1935-11-00 “Mr. Berbeck had a Dream”
  90. 1936-00-00 “The Man from Dark Valley”
  91. 1936-01-00 “The Satin Mask”
  92. 1936-02-00 “Room to Turn Around”
  93. 1936-04-00 “They Shall Rise”
  94. 1936-05-00 “Lesandro’s Familiar”
  95. 1936-06-00 “The Telephone in the Library”
  96. 1936-07-00 “The Return of Sarah Purcell”
  97. 1936-08-00 “Death Holds the Post”
  98. 1936-12-00 “The Woman at Loon Point”
  99. 1937-00-00 Still Is the Summer Night
  100. 1937-02-00 “Glory Hand”
  101. 1937-04-00 “The Shuttered House”
  102. 1937-05-00 “The Wind from the River”
  103. 1937-09-00 “McGovern’s Obsession”
  104. 1938-00-00 Any Day Now
  105. 1938-08-00 “Three Gentlemen in Black”
  106. 1939-00-00 Restless Is the River
  107. 1939-00-00 Sentence Deferred
  108. 1939-02-00 “Eyes of the Serpent”
  109. 1939-02-00 “The Drifting Snow”
  110. 1939-03-00 “Motive”
  111. 1939-03-00 “The Return of Hastur”
  112. 1939-04-00 “Logoda’s Heads”
  113. 1939-04-00 “The Second Print”
  114. 1939-04-00 “The Vengeance of Ai”
  115. 1939-06-00 “Man in the Dark”
  116. 1939-08-00 “Memoir for Lucas Payne”
  117. 1939-08-00 “Mrs. Elting Does Her Part”
  118. 1939-09-00 “Spawn of the Maelstrom”
  119. 1939-10-00 “A Message for His Majesty”
  120. 1939-12-00 “A Bottle for Corezzi”
  121. 1939-12-00 “A Gift for Uncle Herman”
  122. 1939-12-00 “Passing of Eric Holm”
  123. 1939-12-00 “The Room in the Annex”
  124. 1940-00-00 Bright Journey
  125. 1940-00-00 The Narracong Riddle
  126. 1940-00-00 “A Man Needs a Woman”
  127. 1940-00-00 “Any Day Now”
  128. 1940-00-00 “Buck in the Bottoms”
  129. 1940-00-00 “Country Growth”
  130. 1940-00-00 “Crows Fly High”
  131. 1940-00-00 “Frost in October”
  132. 1940-00-00 “Geese Flying South”
  133. 1940-00-00 “Girl in Time Lost”
  134. 1940-00-00 “Good-bye, Margery”
  135. 1940-00-00 “Hawk on the Blue”
  136. 1940-00-00 “Holiday for Three”
  137. 1940-00-00 “Mrs. Spinnet”
  138. 1940-00-00 “Old Huckleberry”
  139. 1940-00-00 “That Heathen Alonzo”
  140. 1940-00-00 “The Alphabet Begins with AAA”
  141. 1940-00-00 “The Blue Goose”
  142. 1940-00-00 “The Intercessors”
  143. 1940-00-00 “The Moon Rose Twice”
  144. 1940-00-00 “The No-Sayers”
  145. 1940-03-00 “Bramwell’s Guardian”
  146. 1940-04-00 “Joliper’s Gift”
  147. 1940-06-00 “After You, Mr. Henderson”
  148. 1940-06-00 “The Four Who Came Back”
  149. 1940-08-00 “The Dead Shall Rise Up”
  150. 1940-10-00 “The Evil Ones”
  151. 1940-11-00 “The Sandwin Compact”
  152. 1940-12-00 “A Little Knowledge”
  153. 1941-00-00 Evening in Spring
  154. 1941-00-00 Villiage Year: A Sac Prairie Journal
  155. 1941-02-00 “Ithaqua”
  156. 1941-03-00 “Come to Me”
  157. 1941-05-00 “Altimer’s Amulet”
  158. L 1941-09-00 “Beyond the Threshold”
  159. 1941-11-00 “Compliments of Spectro”
  160. 1942-03-00 “Here, Daemos!”
  161. 1942-05-00 “Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind”
  162. 1942-07-00 “Headlines for Tod Shayne”
  163. 1942-07-00 “Lansing’s Luxury”
  164. 1942-09-00 “The Night Light at Vorden’s”
  165. 1942-12-00 “Rendezvous”
  166. 1943-00-00 Shadow of Night
  167. 1943-00-00 The Seven Who Waited
  168. 1943-01-00 “McElwin’s Glass”
  169. 1943-03-00 “No Light for Uncle Henry”
  170. 1943-05-00 “A Wig for Miss DeVore”
  171. 1943-09-00 “Baynter’s Imp”
  172. 1943-11-00 “A Thin Gentleman with Gloves”
  173. 1944-00-00 “The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle”
  174. 1944-00-00 Mischief in the Lane
  175. 1944-02-00 “A Ring for Stella”
  176. 1944-03-00 “The Trail of Cthulhu”
  177. 1944-07-00 “Lady Macbeth of Pimley Square”
  178. 1944-09-00 “Pacific 421”
  179. 1944-11-00 “A Gentleman from Prague”
  180. L 1944-11-00 “The Dweller in Darkness”
  181. L L 1945-00-00 The Lurker at the Threshold
  182. 1945-00-00 “The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet”
  183. 1945-00-00 “The Adventure of the Lost Holiday”
  184. 1945-00-00 “The Adventure of the Man with the Broken Face”
  185. 1945-00-00 “The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt”
  186. 1945-00-00 “The Adventure of the Retired Novelist”
  187. 1945-00-00 “The Adventure of the Seven Passengers”
  188. 1945-00-00 “The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman”
  189. 1945-00-00 “The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs”
  190. 1945-00-00 “The Adventures of Solar Pons”
  191. 1945-00-00 “The Bell in the Arbor”
  192. 1945-00-00 No Future for Luana
  193. 1945-00-00 The Shield of the Valiant
  194. 1945-01-00 “The Inverness Cape”
  195. 1945-03-00 “Alannah”
  196. 1945-04-00 “Carousel”
  197. 1945-05-00 “The Lost Day”
  198. 1945-07-00 “The Watcher from the Sky”
  199. 1945-09-00 “The God-Box”
  200. 1945-11-00 “Mrs. Lannisfree”
  201. 1945-11-00 “Sac Prairie Notebook”
  202. 1946-00-00 “The Adventure of the Circular Room”
  203. 1946-01-00 “Pikeman”
  204. 1946-03-00 “Dead Man’s Shoes”
  205. 1946-11-00 “A Collector of Stones”
  206. 1947-00-00 Villiage Daybook: A Sac Prairie Journal
  207. 1947-01-00 “The Extra Passenger”
  208. 1947-03-00 “Mr. George”
  209. 1947-07-00 “Bishop’s Gambit”
  210. 1947-07-00 “Parrington’s Pool”
  211. 1947-07-00 “The Churchyard Yew”
  212. 1947-09-00 “The Occupant of the Crypt”
  213. 1947-11-00 “The Ghost Walk”
  214. 1948-00-00 “That Feller Oates!”
  215. 1948-00-00 “A Little Quiet in the Evening”
  216. 1948-00-00 “I Was Walking Helen Home”
  217. 1948-00-00 “Kleine Nachtmusik”
  218. 1948-00-00 “Light Again”
  219. 1948-00-00 “Mara”
  220. 1948-00-00 “McCrary’s Wife”
  221. 1948-00-00 “Moonlight in the Apple Tree”
  222. 1948-00-00 “Nella”
  223. 1948-00-00 “Now Is the Time for All Good Men”
  224. 1948-00-00 “One Against the Dead”
  225. 1948-00-00 “Stuff of Dreams”
  226. 1948-00-00 “The Lost Kiss”
  227. 1948-00-00 “The Sisters”
  228. 1948-00-00 “The Wind in the Lilacs”
  229. 1948-00-00 “Valse Oblieé”
  230. 1948-00-00 “Where the Worm Dieth Not”
  231. 1948-00-00 “Aunt May and the Refugees”
  232. 1948-00-00 “Ellie Butts”
  233. 1948-01-00 “The Night Train to Lost Valley”
  234. 1948-02-00 “The Lonesome Place”
  235. 1948-03-00 “Something in Wood”
  236. 1948-05-00 “Saunder’s Little Friend”
  237. 1948-07-00 “The Tsanta in the Parlor”
  238. 1948-09-00 “The Whippoorwills in the Hills”
  239. 1948-11-00 “Blessed Are the Meek”
  240. 1949-00-00 “Fool Proof”
  241. 1949-00-00 “Mrs. Manifold”
  242. L 1949-00-00 “Open, Sesame!”
  243. 1949-01-00 “Balu”
  244. 1949-03-00 “The Testament of Claiborne Boyd”
  245. 1949-05-00 “Kingsridge 214”
  246. 1949-07-00 “The Blue Spectacles”
  247. L 1949-09-00 “The Song of the Peewee”
  248. 1949-09-00 “The Slayers and the Slain”
  249. 1949-11-00 “Twilight Play”
  250. 1950-01-00 “The Ormolu Clock”
  251. 1950-05-00 “The Man on B-17”
  252. 1950-06-00 “The Island Out of Space”
  253. 1950-07-00 “The Closing Door”
  254. 1950-09-00 “Potts’ Triumph”
  255. 1950-09-00 “The Extra Child”
  256. 1950-09-00 “The Fifth Child”
  257. 1950-10-00 “A Room in a House”
  258. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot”
  259. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of the Dog in the Manger”
  260. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of the Five Royal Coachmen”
  261. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive”
  262. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of the Paralytic Mendicant”
  263. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of the Perfect Husband”
  264. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of the Proper Comma”
  265. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders”
  266. 1951-00-00 “The Adventure of the Tottenham Werewolf”
  267. 1951-00-00 “The Haunters of Night”
  268. L L 1951-00-00 “The Other Side of the Wall”
  269. 1951-01-00 “Something from Out There”
  270. L L L 1951-04-00 “The Man Who Rode the Saucer”
  271. 1951-05-00 “The Keeper of the Key”
  272. 1951-07-00 “A Knocking in the Wall”
  273. 1951-11-00 “Hector”
  274. 1952-00-00 “The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty”
  275. 1952-00-00 “The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers”
  276. 1952-00-00 “The Element of Chance”
  277. 1952-00-00 “Fr. Lauren”
  278. 1952-00-00 “The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm”
  279. 1952-01-00 “The Black Island”
  280. 1952-03-00 “The Place of Desolation”
  281. 1952-05-00 “The Night Road”
  282. L L 1952-07-00 “McIlvaine’s Star”
  283. 1952-08-00 “Who Shall I Say Is Calling?”
  284. 1952-09-00 “The Lost Path”
  285. 1953-00-00 Death By Design
  286. 1953-00-00 Fell Purpose
  287. 1953-01-00 “Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall”
  288. L L 1953-05-00 “A Corner for Lucia”
  289. L L 1953-06-00 “The Maugham Obsession”
  290. L 1953-07-00 “The Adventure of the Snitch in Time”
  291. 1953-07-00 “The House in the Valley”
  292. L L 1953-08-00 “The Detective and the Senator”
  293. L L 1953-09-00 “Invasion from the Microcosm”
  294. 1953-09-00 “The Ebony Stick”
  295. 1953-11-00 “The Disk Recorder”
  296. L L 1953-12-00 “A Traveler in Time”
  297. L L 1954-04-00 “The Remarkable Dingdong”
  298. 1954-05-00 “The Place in the Woods”
  299. 1954-06-00 “The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures”
  300. L L 1954-07-00 “The Survivor”
  301. L L 1954-07-00 “The Ungrateful House”
  302. L L 1954-09-00 “The Thinker and the Thought”
  303. 1954-11-00 “The Adventure of the Penny Magenta”
  304. L L 1954-11-00 “The Penfield Misadventure”
  305. 1955-01-00 “The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman”
  306. L 1955-06-00 “The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus”
  307. 1956-00-00 “The Adventure of the Devil’s Footprints”
  308. 1956-06-00 “The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue”
  309. 1956-10-00 “The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant”
  310. 1956-11-00 “The Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse”
  311. L L 1957-00-00 “The Ancestor”
  312. L L 1957-00-00 “The Peabody Heritage”
  313. L L 1957-00-00 “The Shadow Out of Space”
  314. L L 1957-00-00 “Wentworth’s Day”
  315. L 1957-02-00 “The Dark Boy”
  316. 1957-04-00 “The Adventure of the ‘Triple Kent’”
  317. L L 1957-05-00 “The Gable Window”
  318. L L 1957-07-00 “The Martian Artifact”
  319. 1957-07-00 “The Seal of R’lyeh”
  320. 1957-09-00 “The Adventure of the Little Hangman”
  321. L L 1957-10-00 “The Lamp of Alhazred”
  322. 1958-00-00 “The Adventure of the Stone of Scone”
  323. 1958-00-00 The House on the Mound
  324. 1958-00-00 The Moon Tenders
  325. 1958-03-00 “The Adventure of the Dorrington Inheritance”
  326. L L 1959-00-00 “The Fisherman of Falcon Point”
  327. L L 1959-00-00 “The Shuttered Room”
  328. 1959-00-00 “Camomile”
  329. 1959-00-00 The Mill Creek Irregulars: Special Detectives
  330. 1959-08-00 “The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders”
  331. 1959-10-00 “Tail of the Dog”
  332. 1959-11-00 “Halloween for Mr. Faulkner”
  333. 1960-00-00 The Pinkertons Ride Again
  334. 1960-06-00 “The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels”
  335. 1961-00-00 “April Kinney”
  336. 1961-00-00 “Monie”
  337. 1961-00-00 “The Christmas Virgin”
  338. 1961-00-00 “The Revolt of the Worm”
  339. 1961-00-00 “Mr. C”
  340. 1961-00-00 “The Quince Bush”
  341. 1961-00-00 “The Other Cheek”
  342. 1961-00-00 “Two Ladies in Jeopardy”
  343. 1961-00-00 “The Valley of Whippoorwill”
  344. 1961-00-00 “The Mouse on the Train”
  345. 1961-00-00 “The Boundary of Now”
  346. 1961-00-00 “Walpurgisnacht”
  347. 1961-00-00 “The House of Moonlight”
  348. 1961-00-00 “The Telescope”
  349. 1961-00-00 The Ghost of Black Hawk Island
  350. 1961-00-00 Walden West
  351. 1961-02-00 “The Adventure of the Troubled Magistrate”
  352. 1961-09-00 “The Adventure of the Blind Clairaudient”
  353. L L 1962-00-00 “Witches’ Hollow”
  354. 1962-00-00 “House—With Ghost”
  355. 1962-00-00 “Miss Esperson”
  356. 1962-10-00 “The Adventure of the Sussex Archers”
  357. 1963-00-00 The Tent Show Summer
  358. 1963-03-00 “The Adventure of the Fatal Glance”
  359. 1963-09-00 “The Adventure of the Whispering Knights”
  360. 1963-11-00 “The Adventure of the Haunted Library”
  361. 1964-00-00 The Irregulars Strike Again
  362. 1964-03-00 “The Adventure of the Intarsia Box”
  363. L L 1964-04-00 “The Shadow in the Attic”
  364. 1964-04-00 “The Patchwork Quilt”
  365. 1964-07-00 “The Adventure of the Crouching Dog”
  366. 1964-09-00 “The Adventure of the Amateur Philoligist”
  367. 1964-12-00 “The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlaine”
  368. L L 1965-00-00 “By Rocket to the Moon”
  369. 1965-00-00 “The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal”
  370. 1965-00-00 “The Adventure of the Innkeeper’s Clerk”
  371. 1965-00-00 “The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman”
  372. 1965-00-00 The House by the River
  373. 1965-03-00 “The Adventure of the China Cottage”
  374. 1965-04-00 “The Adventure of the Orient Express”
  375. 1965-05-00 “Praed Street Papers”
  376. L L 1966-00-00 “The Dark Brotherhood”
  377. 1966-01-28 Watcher on the Heights
  378. L L 1966-06-00 “Ferguson’s Capsules”
  379. 1966-10-00 “The Adventure of the Red Leech”
  380. L L 1967-00-00 “The Horror from the Middle Span”
  381. 1967-02-00 “The Mannikin”
  382. 1968-00-00 Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey
  383. 1968-00-00 The Beast in Holger’s Woods
  384. 1968-00-00 “From the Notebooks of Dr. Lyndon Parker”
  385. 1968-00-00 “The Adventures of the Bookseller’s Clerk”
  386. 1968-00-00 The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians
  387. 1968-00-00 The Prince Goes West
  388. 1970-11-00 The Three Straw Men
  389. L L 1971-00-00 “Innsmouth Clay”
  390. 1971-00-00 “The House in the Oaks”
  391. 1971-05-00 “Ghost Lake”
  392. 1973-00-00 “The Adventure of the Aluminum Crutch”
  393. 1973-00-00 “The Adventure of the Benin Bronze”
  394. 1973-00-00 “The Adventure of the Bishop’s Companion”
  395. 1973-00-00 “The Adventure of the Golden Bracelet”
  396. 1973-00-00 “The Adventure of the Seven Sisters”
  397. 1973-00-00 “The Adventure of the Shaplow Millions”
  398. 1973-00-00 “The Figure with the Scythe”
  399. L L 1974-00-00 “The Watchers Out of Time”
  400. L L 1975-00-00 “An Eye for History”
  401. L L 1975-00-00 “Protoplasma”
  402. 1982-00-00 “The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlane”
  403. 1988-00-00 “Derleth’s Account of Life in Sac-Prairie”
  404. 1998-11-00 “The Adventure of the Extra-Terrestrial”
  405. 1998-11-00 “The Adventure of the Nosferatu”
  406. 1998-11-00 “More from Dr. Parker’s Notebooks”
  407. 1998-11-00 “Terror Over London”
  408. 1998-11-00 “The Adventure of the Burlstone Horror”
  409. 1998-11-00 “The Adventure of the Muttering Man”
  410. 1998-11-00 “The Adventure of the Viennese Musician”
  411. 1998-11-00 “The Adventures of Greshan Old Place”
  412. 1999-03-00 “The Countries in the Sea”
  413. 1999-10-00 “The Regeneration of Ben Secker”
  414. 2000-00-00 “A Visitor from Outside”
  415. 2001-04-00 “Footsteps Far Below”