August Derleth bibliography

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)

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)
  • The Moon Tenders (1958) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #1]
  • Wilbur, The Trusting Whippoorwill (1959)
  • The Mill Creek Irregulars (1959) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #2]
  • The Pinkertons Ride Again (1960) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #3]
  • The Ghost of Blackhawk Island (1961) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #4]
  • Sweet Land of Michigan (1962)
  • The Tent Show Summer (1963) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #5]
  • The Irregulars Strike Again (1964) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #6]
  • The House by the River (1965) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #7]
  • The Watcher on the Heights (1966) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #8]
  • The Beast in Holger's Woods (1968)
  • The Prince Goes West (1968) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #9]
  • Three Straw Men (1970) [The Mill Creek Irregulars #10]

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)
  • Beyond the Threshold (1941)
  • 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 Claire Victor Dwiggins)
  • 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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