August Derleth
American novelist, short story writer, poet, editor, and anthologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre and helped found the publisher Arkham House . Derleth was also a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography. Notably, he created the fictional detective Solar Pons, a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
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What Are August Derleth's Academic Contributions?
August Derleth has made the following academic contributions:
- When Evil Wakes
- The Survivor and Others
- The Casebook of Solar Pons
- Someone in the Dark
- Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
- Travellers by Night
- The Return of Solar Pons
- The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
- The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years
- The Memoirs of Solar Pons
- The Lurker at the Threshold
- The Chronicles of Solar Pons
- Something Near
- Not Long for this World
- Mr. George and Other Odd Persons
- Lonesome Places
- In Lovecraft's Shadow
- Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People
