August Derleth (1909–1971)
Autor de El Que Acecha en el Umbral
Sobre El Autor
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, mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de August Derleth
El Rastro de Cthulhu (Biblioteca Tematica: Biblioteca de Fantasia y Terror) (Spanish Edition) (1962) 342 copias
New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow : The Last Science Fiction Anthology (1999) — Editor — 23 copias
The Novels of Solar Pons: Terror Over London and Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (The Adventures of Solar Pons Book 6) (2018) 12 copias
Village daybook: a Sac Prairie journal. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt. (1947) 12 copias
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 1 6 copias
Sleeping and the Dead, The: Thirty Uncanny Tales Selected by August Derleth (1947) — Compiler — 6 copias
Praed Street Papers 5 copias
Poetry Out of Wisconsin 5 copias
No future for Luana 4 copias
The Arkham Sampler, Spring 1949 4 copias
The Arrival of Solar Pons: Early Manuscripts and Pulp Magazine Appearances of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street — Autor — 3 copias
The Solar Pons Omnibus volume 2 3 copias
Otros mitos de Cthulhu / Other myths of Cthulhu (El Libro De Bolsillo. Bibliotecas Tematicas. Biblioteca De Fantasia Y… (2005) 3 copias
The Metronome 3 copias
The Return Of Hastur 3 copias
The Drifting Snow 3 copias
Dagon and other macabre tales: selected by August Derleth with texts edited by S.T. Joshi & an introduction by T.E.D.… (1986) — Editor — 2 copias
Country poems 2 copias
The Three Straw Men 2 copias
Worlds of tomorrow. Short stories by various authors. Edited by A. Derleth (Science Fiction.) (1954) 2 copias
The House of Moonlight 2 copias
By owl light 2 copias
The adventure of the Orient Express 2 copias
Mrs. Manifold [short fiction] 2 copias
Sweet Genevieve 2 copias
August Derleth's Eerie Creatures 2 copias
Arkham Collector #8 2 copias
The Seal Of R’lyeh 2 copias
The Lonesome Place 2 copias
The Sandwin Compact 2 copias
"H.P. LOVECRAFT" BOOKS: The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories / The Tomb and Other Tales 2 copias
Something In Wood 2 copias
The Whippoorwills In The Hills 2 copias
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 — Autor — 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) — Editor — 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
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels (1919) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 1,053 copias
The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1963) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 612 copias
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contribuidor — 264 copias
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contribuidor — 198 copias
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contribuidor — 184 copias
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Contribuidor — 100 copias
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contribuidor — 92 copias
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Contribuidor — 88 copias
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contribuidor — 78 copias
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Contribuidor — 44 copias
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contribuidor — 41 copias
The Yith Cycle: Lovecraftian Tales of the Great Race and Time Travel (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (2010) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 31 copias
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Contribuidor — 27 copias
The Katzenjammer Kids: Early Strips in Full Color (1974) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 22 copias
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 2 (1993) — Contribuidor — 20 copias
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes: A Panorama of Science Fiction (1973) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Fantastisia kertomuksia : antologia 11 copias
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 2, August-September 1936 — Contribuidor — 4 copias
The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes — Contribuidor — 3 copias
MIRAGE ON LOVECRAFT - A LITERARY VIEW — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 4, April 1933 — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 2, February 1933 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 4, October 1932 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 2, August 1938 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 2, August 1929 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Weird Tales Volume 45 Number 3, July 1953 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Weird Tales Volume 26 Number 5, November 1935 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 1, January 1936 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 6, December 1928 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Weird Tales Volume 38 Number 2, November 1944 — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 1 copia
Direction, Volume 1, Number 2 (Jan-March 1935) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Derleth, August
- Nombre legal
- Derleth, August William
- Otros nombres
- Grendon, Stephen (nom de plume)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1909-02-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1971-07-04
- Lugar de sepultura
- St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- Derleth died of a heart attack
- Lugares de residencia
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Educación
- University of Wisconsin (BA|1930)
- Ocupaciones
- editor
publisher - Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
THE DEEP ONES: "Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft en The Weird Tradition (agosto 2018)
Lovecraftian Criticism en The Weird Tradition (noviembre 2017)
Lovecraftian Donnybrook en The Weird Tradition (octubre 2013)
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