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A Bibliography of the Works of August Derleth
Organized by year of publication

(See also: Listing by Genre)

Title

Year Published

Notes

Heritage of Sauk City

1931 (Sauk City, WI: Pioneer Press)

Regional Writing

Murder Stalks the Wakely Family

1934 (New York: Loring and Mussey); 1937 (London: Newnes; Published as Death Stalks the Wakely Family)

Judge Peck series

Place of Hawks

1935 (New York: Loring and Mussey)

Sac Prairie Saga; Short Stories; Reprinted in 1948 in Wisconsin Earth

Sign of Fear

1935 (New York: Loring and Mussey)

Judge Peck series

Three Who Died

1935 (New York: Loring and Mussey)

Judge Peck series

Still is the Summer Night

1937 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Historical Novel

Poetry Out Of Wisconsin

1937 (New York: Harrison);

Editor; with R.E. Larsson

Any Day Now

1938 (Chicago: Normandie House)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novella

Wind Over Wisconsin

1938 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons); 1956 (New York: Grosset and Dunlap)

Sac Prairie Saga; Historical Novel

Hawk on the Wind

1938 (Philadelphia: Ritten House)

Poetry

Atmosphere of Houses

1939 (Muscatine, Iowa: The Praire Press)

Journal

Elegy: On a Flake of Snow

1939 (Muscatine, Iowa: The Praire Press)

Poetry

Restless Is the River

1939 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Historical Novel

Sentence Deferred

1939 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons); 1956 (Milan: Garzanti; Published as L'Enigma dei Narracong)

Judge Peck series

Man Track Here

1939 (Philadelphia: Ritten House)

Poetry

Bright Journey

1940 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Wisconsin Saga; Reprinted 1953, 1955

Country Growth

1940 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Short Stories

The Narracong Riddle

1940 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons); 1940 (London: Heinemann)

Judge Peck series

Still Small Voice: The Biography of Zona Gale

1940 (New York: D. Appleton Co.)

Biography

Here on a Darkling Plain

1940 (Philadelphia: Ritten House)

Poetry

Evening in Spring

1941 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novel

Village Year: A Sac Priarie Journal

1941 (New York: Coward McCann)

Reprinted 1948 in Wisconsin Earth, Journal

Wind in the Elms

1941 (Philadelphia: Ritten House)

Poetry

Wisconsin Regional Literature

1941 (Sauk City, WI: [?])

Revised 1942, Criticism

Sweet Genevieve

1942 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novel

The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles

1942 (New York: Farrar & Rinehart); 1985 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press)

History

Rind of Earth

1942 (Prairie City, IL: Decker Press)

Poetry

Shadow of Night

1943 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Historical Novel

The Seven Who Waited

1943 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons); 1945 (London: Muller)

Judge Peck series

Mischief in the Lane

1944 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons); 1945 (London: Muller); 1947 (Buenos Aires: Molino; Published as Danos en la Vereda)

Judge Peck series

And You, Thoreau!

1944 (Norfolk, CT: New Directions)

Poetry

Selected Poems

1944 (Prairie City, IL: Decker Press)

Poetry

H.P.L.: A Memoir

1945 (New York: Ben Abramson)

Biography

The Shield of the Valiant

1945 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novel

The Edge of Night

1945 (Prairie City, IL: Decker Press)

Poetry

"In Re Sherlock Holmes": The Adventures of Solar Pons

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran); 1970 (Milan: Longanesi; Published under the title Le Avventure di Solar Pons Sequita Dalle Memoire di Solar Pons); 1974 (New York: Pinnacle Books; published under the title Regarding Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Solar Pons); 1975 (London: Robson Books; published under the title The Adventures of Solar Pons); 1976 (London: Futura)

Solar Pons

Marginalia

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

By H. P. Lovecraft; collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei; editor; revisions

Bill's Diary

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

By Claire Victor Dwiggins with August Derleth; Poetry for young readers

Oliver, the Wayward Owl

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry for young readers

Writing Fiction

1946 (Boston: The Writer, Inc.); 1996 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press)

Nonfiction

The Habitant of Dusk: A Garland for Cassandra

1946 (Boston: Walden Press)

Poetry

August Derleth: Twenty Years of Writing 1926 - 1946

1946 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Bibliography

Village Daybook: A Sac Prairie Journal

1947 (Chicago: Pellegrini and Cudahy)

Sac Prairie Saga

Village Daybook: A Sac Prairie Journal

1947 (Chicago: Pellegrini and Cudahy)

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

Dark of the Moon : Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

1947 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Macabre poetry

A Boy's Way

1947 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry for young readers

Sauk County: A Centennial History

1948 (Baraboo, WI: Sauk County Centennial Committee)

History

The Milwaukee Road: Its First 100 Years

1948 (New York: Creative Age Press)

History

Wisconsin Earth: A Sac Prairie Sampler

1948 (New York: Stanton and Lee)

Contains Place of Hawks, Shadow of Night and Village Year

Sac Prairie People

1948 (Sauk City WI: Stanton and Lee)

Sac Prairie Saga, Short Stories

It's a Boy's World: Poems

1948 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry for young readers

Something About Cats and Other Pieces

1949 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

By H. P. Lovecraft (Collected By August Derleth); As Editor; Revisions, Essays

August Derleth: Twenty-Five Years of Writing 1926-1951

1951 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Bibliography

Country Poems

1952 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

Rendezvous in a Landscape

1952 (New York: Fine Editions Press)

Poetry

Psyche

1953 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

The House of Moonlight

1953 (Iowa City: The Prairie Press)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novella

Land of Gray Gold: Lead Mining in Wisconsin

1954 (New York: Aladdin Books)

Juvenile Nonfiction

Land of the Sky-Blue Waters

1955 (New York: Aladdin Books)

Juvenile Nonfiction

Father Marquette and the Great Rivers

1955 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy); 1955 (London: Burns and Oates); 1962 (New York: Guild Press, condensed version)

Juvenile Biography

Father Marquette and the Great Rivers

1955 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy); 1955 (London: Burns and Oates); 1962 (New York: Guild Press, condensed version)

Juvenile Biography

St. Ignatius and the Company of Jesus

1955 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy); 1956 (London: Burns and Oates)

Juvenile Biography

St. Ignatius and the Company of Jesus

1955 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy); 1956 (London: Burns and Oates)

Juvenile Biography

August Derleth: Thirty Years of Writing 1926-1956

1956 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Bibliography

Elegy: On the Umbral Moon

1957 (Forest Park, IL: Acorn Press)

Poetry

Columbus and the New World

1957, 1960 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy); 1957 (London: Burns and Oates)

Junior Biography

Columbus and the New World

1957, 1960 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy); 1957 (London: Burns and Oates)

Junior Biography

The House on the Mound

1958 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce); 1996 (Shelburne, ON: Hawk and Whippoorwill, paperback and cloth cover)

Wisconsin Saga, Historical Novel

Arkham House: The First Twenty Years 1939 - 1959

1959 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

A History and Bibliography Prepared By August Derleth

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces

1959 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

By H.P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands (Compiled By August Derleth); As Editor, Juvenalia, Stories, Essays

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces

1959 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

By H.P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands (Compiled By August Derleth); As Editor, Juvenalia, Stories, Essays

Some Notes on a Nonentity

1959 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1963 (London: Villiers Publications)

By H.P. Lovecraft (Annotated By August Derleth); As Editor, Essay

Wilbur the Trusting Whippoorwill

1959 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry For Young Readers

Wilbur the Trusting Whippoorwill

1959 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry For Young Readers

West of Morning

1960 (Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press)

Poetry

The Hills Stand Watch

1960 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Wisconsin Saga, Historical Novel

Hawk and Whippoorwill

1960 (Sauk City, WI)

Quarterly Periodical; As Editor, Poetry

Wisconsin in Their Bones

1961 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Sac Prairie Saga, Short Stories

Walden West

1961 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce); 1989 (Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press; hardcover and paperback)

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

Fire and Sleet and Candlelight

1961 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

As Editor, Macabre Poetry

This Wound

1962 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

Sweet Land of Michigan

1962 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Junior History

Concord Rebel: A Life of Henry D. Thoreau

1962 (Philadelphia: Chilton Co.); 1962 (New York: Avon Books, paperback)

Biography

100 Books

1962 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Bibliography

Three Literary Men: A Memoir of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters

1963 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Biography

Countryman’s Journal

1963 (New York: Duell)

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

Countryman’s Journal

1963 (New York: Duell)

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

The Shadow in the Glass

1963 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Wisconsin Saga, Historical Novel

The Forest Orphans

1964 (New York: Ernest); 1971 (Park Falls WI: MacGregor Litho, Revised and reissued as Mr. Conservation)

Biography

Country Places

1965 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

Wisconsin Country: A Sac Prairie Journal

1965 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Journal

Selected Letters, H. P. Lovecraft

1965 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

As Editor With Donald Wandrei:
Volume 1 (1911-1925) 1965
Volume 2 (1925-1929) 1968
Volume 3 (1929-1931) 1971

Edited With James Turner:
Volume 4 (1932-1934) 1976
Volume 5 (1934-1937) 1976

The Only Place We Live

1966 (Iowa City: Prairie Press); 1976 (Madison, WI: Wisconsin House, in modified form, edited by Mark E. Lefebvre)

Poetry

A Wisconsin Harvest

1966 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Regional Writing

By Owl Light

1967 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

Collected Poems 1937-1967

1967 (New York: Candlelight Press); 1995 (Shelbourne, ON: Hawk & Whippoorwill)

Poetry

Wisconsin (States of the Nation Series)

1967 (New York: Coward-McCann)

Nonfiction

Wisconsin: Consultant Russell Mosley

1967 (New York: Coward-McCann)

Nonfiction

Walden Pond: Homage to Thoreau

1968 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Biography

Vincennes: Portal to the West

1968 (New York: Prentice Hall)

History

Wisconsin Murders

1968 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

History, Crime Stories

Caitlin

1969 (Iowa City, Prairie Press)

Poetry

The Wisconsin Valley: A Student Guide to Localized History

1969 (New York: Teachers College Press)

Nonfiction

The Wind Leans West

1969 (New York: The Candlelight Press)

Wisconsin Saga, Historical Novel

New Poetry Out Of Wisconsin

1969 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

As Editor, Poetry

A House Above Cuzco 1969 (New York: Candlelight Press) Miscellaneous

The Landscape of the Heart

1970 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

Return to Walden West

1970 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

Emerson, Our Contemporary

1970 (New York: Crowell-Collier Press)

Biography

Thirty Years of Arkham House: 1939 -1969

1970 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

A History and Bibliography, prepared by August Derleth

Love Letters to Caitlin

1971 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Poetry, Not Released

The Only Place We Live

1976 (Madison: Wisconsin House)

Regional Writing by August Derleth, Jesse Stuart, Robert E. Gard; Edited by Mark E. Lefebvre; Journals, Poetry

The Only Place We Live

1976 (Madison: Wisconsin House)

Regional writing by August Derleth, Jesse Stuart, Robert E. Gard; Edited by Mark E. Lefebvre; Journals, Poetry