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A Bibliography of the Works of August Derleth
Organized by genre

(See also: Chronological Listing)

(Click on a genre heading below to jump to that section)

Sagas, Historical Fiction

Regional Writing

Natural and Regional History

Poetry

Nonfiction

Criticism

Bibliography

Essays

Biography

Correspondence

Journals

Mystery

Science Fiction

Crime Stories

Macabre

Young Readers

Cross-Genre Anthologies

Miscellaneous

 

Sagas, Historical Fiction

Title

Year Published

Notes

Place of Hawks

1935 (New York: Loring and Mussey)

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

Still is the Summer Night

1937 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Historical Novel

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

Restless Is the River

1939 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Historical Novel

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

Evening in Spring

1941 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novel

Sweet Genevieve

1942 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novel

Shadow of Night

1943 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Historical Novel

The Shield of the Valiant

1945 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novel

Village Daybook: A Sac Prairie Journal

1947 (Chicago: Pellegrini and Cudahy)

Sac Prairie Saga

Sac Prairie People

1948 (Sauk City WI: Stanton and Lee)

Sac Prairie Saga, Short Stories

Wisconsin Earth: A Sac Prairie Sampler

1948 (New York: Stanton and Lee)

Contains Place of Hawks, Shadow of Night and Village Year

The House of Moonlight

1953 (Iowa City: The Prairie Press)

Sac Prairie Saga; Novella

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

The Hills Stand Watch

1960 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Wisconsin Saga, Historical Novel

Walden West

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

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

Wisconsin in Their Bones

1961 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Sac Prairie Saga, Short Stories

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 Wind Leans West

1969 (New York: The Candlelight Press)

Wisconsin Saga, Historical Novel

Return to Walden West

1970 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

Country Matters

1996 (Shelburne, ON: Hawk and Whippoorwill, cloth cover and paperback)

Edited and introduced by Peter Ruber, Sac Prairie Saga, Short Stories

Return to Sac Prairie

1996 (Shelburne, ON: Hawk and Whippoorwill, cloth cover and paperback)

Edited and introduced by Peter Ruber, Sac Prairie Saga, Short Stories

Regional Writing

Title

Year Published

Notes

A Wisconsin Harvest

1966 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Regional Writing

Heritage of Sauk City

1931 (Sauk City, WI: Pioneer Press)

Regional Writing

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

Natural and Regional History

Title

Year Published

Notes

The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles

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

History

The Milwaukee Road: Its First 100 Years

1948 (New York: Creative Age Press)

History

Sauk County: A Centennial History

1948 (Baraboo, WI: Sauk County Centennial Committee)

History

Sweet Land of Michigan

1962 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Junior History

Vincennes: Portal to the West

1968 (New York: Prentice Hall)

History

Wisconsin Murders

1968 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

History, Crime Stories

Poetry

Title

Year Published

Notes

Poetry Out Of Wisconsin

1937 (New York: Harrison);

Editor; with R.E. Larsson

Hawk on the Wind

1938 (Philadelphia: Ritten House)

Poetry

Elegy: On a Flake of Snow

1939 (Muscatine, Iowa: The Praire Press)

Poetry

Man Track Here

1939 (Philadelphia: Ritten House)

Poetry

Here on a Darkling Plain

1940 (Philadelphia: Ritten House)

Poetry

Wind in the Elms

1941 (Philadelphia: Ritten House)

Poetry

Rind of Earth

1942 (Prairie City, IL: Decker Press)

Poetry

And You, Thoreau!

1944 (Norfolk, CT: New Directions)

Poetry

Selected Poems

1944 (Prairie City, IL: Decker Press)

Poetry

Bill's Diary

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

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

The Edge of Night

1945 (Prairie City, IL: Decker Press)

Poetry

Oliver, the Wayward Owl

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry for young readers

The Habitant of Dusk: A Garland for Cassandra

1946 (Boston: Walden Press)

Poetry

A Boy's Way

1947 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry for young readers

Dark of the Moon : Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

1947 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Macabre poetry

It's a Boy's World: Poems

1948 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry for young readers

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

Elegy: On the Umbral Moon

1957 (Forest Park, IL: Acorn Press)

Poetry

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

Hawk and Whippoorwill

1960 (Sauk City, WI)

Quarterly Periodical; As Editor, Poetry

West of Morning

1960 (Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press)

Poetry

Fire and Sleet and Candlelight

1961 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

As Editor, Macabre Poetry

This Wound

1962 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

Country Places

1965 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

The Only Place We Live

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

Poetry

By Owl Light

1967 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

Collected Poems 1937-1967

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

Poetry

Caitlin

1969 (Iowa City, Prairie Press)

Poetry

New Poetry Out Of Wisconsin

1969 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

As Editor, Poetry

The Landscape of the Heart

1970 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Poetry

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

Nonfiction

Title

Year Published

Notes

Writing Fiction

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

Nonfiction

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

Wisconsin: Consultant Russell Mosley

1967 (New York: Coward-McCann)

Nonfiction

Wisconsin (States of the Nation Series)

1967 (New York: Coward-McCann)

Nonfiction

The Wisconsin Valley: A Student Guide to Localized History

1969 (New York: Teachers College Press)

Nonfiction

Criticism

Title

Year Published

Notes

Wisconsin Regional Literature

1941 (Sauk City, WI: [?])

Revised 1942, Criticism

Bibliography

Title

Year Published

Notes

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

1951 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Bibliography

August Derleth: Thirty Years of Writing 1926-1956

1956 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Bibliography

Arkham House: The First Twenty Years 1939 - 1959

1959 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

A History and Bibliography Prepared By August Derleth

100 Books

1962 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Bibliography

August Derleth: Twenty Years of Writing 1926 - 1946

1946 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Bibliography

Thirty Years of Arkham House: 1939 -1969

1970 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

A History and Bibliography, prepared by August Derleth

Essays

Title

Year Published

Notes

Marginalia

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

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

Something About Cats and Other Pieces

1949 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

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

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

Return to Derleth Selected Essays : Selected Essays Vol 1

1993 (White Hawk Press, paperback)

James P. Roberts, Editor; Essays

Return to Derleth : Selected Essays Vol 2

1993 (White Hawk Press, paperback)

James P. Roberts, Editor; Essays

Biography

Title

Year Published

Notes

Still Small Voice: The Biography of Zona Gale

1940 (New York: D. Appleton Co.)

Biography

H.P.L.: A Memoir

1945 (New York: Ben Abramson)

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

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

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

Concord Rebel: A Life of Henry D. Thoreau

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

Biography

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

1963 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Biography

The Forest Orphans

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

Biography

Walden Pond: Homage to Thoreau

1968 (Iowa City: Prairie Press)

Biography

Emerson, Our Contemporary

1970 (New York: Crowell-Collier Press)

Biography

Correspondence

Title

Year Published

Notes

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

Journals

Title

Year Published

Notes

Atmosphere of Houses

1939 (Muscatine, Iowa: The Praire Press)

Journal

Village Year: A Sac Priarie Journal

1941 (New York: Coward McCann)

Reprinted 1948 in Wisconsin Earth, Journal

Village Daybook: A Sac Prairie Journal

1947 (Chicago: Pellegrini and Cudahy)

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

Wisconsin Country: A Sac Prairie Journal

1965 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Journal

Countryman’s Journal

1963 (New York: Duell)

Sac Prairie Saga, Journal

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

Mystery

Title

Year Published

Notes

The Man on All Fours

1934 (New York: Loring and Mussey)

Judge Peck series

Murder Stalks the Wakely Family

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

Judge Peck series

Sign of Fear

1935 (New York: Loring and Mussey)

Judge Peck series

Three Who Died

1935 (New York: Loring and Mussey)

Judge Peck series

Sentence Deferred

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

Judge Peck series

The Narracong Riddle

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

Judge Peck series

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

"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

No Future for Luana

1945 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons); 1947 (Buenos Aires: Molino; Published No Hay Futuro Para Luana)

Judge Peck series

The Solar Pons Omnibus Edition

1982 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

The complete published Solar Pons canon edited by Basil Copper

The Chronicles of Solar Pons

1973 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran); 1974 (New York: Pinnacle Books); 1975 (London: Robson Books)

Solar Pons

The 'Unpublished' Solar Pons

1994 (Toronto: Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library)

Solar Pons

The Exploits of Solar Pons

1975 (London: Robson Books)

Omnibus edition combining The Adventures of Solar Pons and The Chronicles of Solar Pons

The Memoirs of Solar Pons

1951 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran); 1951 (New York: Unicorn Book Club); 1951 (New York: Pinnacle Books, paperback)

Solar Pons

Three Problems for Solar Pons

1952 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran)

Solar Pons

Death by Design

1953 (New York: Arcadia House)

Detective Novel

Fell Purpose

1953 (New York: Arcadia House); 1954 (Milan: del Secoco; published as Colpi di Martello)

Judge Peck series

The Moon Tenders

1958 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Return of Solar Pons

1958 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran); 1975 (New York: Pinnacle Books, paperback)

Solar Pons

The Moon Tenders

1958 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Mill Creek Irregulars

1959 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars; Junior Mystery

The Mill Creek Irregulars

1959 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars; Junior Mystery

The Ghost of Black Hawk Island

1961 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

Reminiscences of Solar Pons

1961 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran); 1975 (New York: Pinnacle Books, paperback)

Solar Pons

The Tent Show Summer

1963 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Irregulars Strike Again

1964 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Adventure of the Orient Express

1965 (New York: The Candlelight Press); 1996 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, published in piglatin as Hetay Adventureyay ofyay hetay Orientyay Expressyay)

Solar Pons

The Casebook of Solar Pons

1965 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran); 1975 (New York: Pinnacle Books, paperback)

Solar Pons

The House by the River

1965 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

Praed Street Papers

1965 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Solar Pons

The Watcher on the Heights

1966 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Beast in Holger’s Woods

1968 (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co.)

Juvenile Mystery

The Prince Goes West

1968 (New York: Meredith Press)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians

1968 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran)

Solar Pons

Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey

1968 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran); 1976 (New York: Pinnacle Books, paperback)

Solar Pons

A Praed Street Dossier

1968 (Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran)

Solar Pons

The Three Straw Men

1970 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Solar Pons Portfolio

1997 (Shelburne, ON: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)

Edited by George A. Vanderburgh;
The text of all the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth restored to their original form

Science Fiction

Title

Year Published

Notes

Strange Ports of Call

1948 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy); 1958 (New York: Berkley; paperback)

As Editor; SF Stories

The Other Side of the Moon

1949 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy); 1956 (London: Grayson); 1959 (New York: Berkley); 1963 (London: Panther Books); 1966 (London: Mayflower Books)

As Editor; SF Stories

Beyond Time and Space

1950 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy); 1958 (New York: Berkley; paperback consisting of selections from the hardcover edition)

As Editor; SF Stories

Far Boundaries: 20 Science-Fiction Stories

1951 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy)

As Editor; SF Stories

The Outer Reaches: Favorite Science Fiction Tales Chosen by Their Authors

1951 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy); 1958 (New York: Berkley); 1963 (London: Consul Books, reissued in two volumes with 2nd volume entitled The Time of Infinity)

As Editor; SF Stories

Beachheads in Space

1952 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy); 1954 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson); 1958 (New York: Berkley, paperback); 1964 (London: Four Square Books, 2 volumes with second entitled From Other Worlds)

As Editor; SF Stories

Portals of Tomorrow: The Best of Science Fiction and Other Fantasy

1953 (New York: Rinehart); 1956 (London: Cassell)

As Editor, SF Stories

Worlds of Tomorrow: Science Fiction With a Difference

1953 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy); 1954 (London: Weidenfield and Nicolson); 1958 (New York: Berkley; paperback); 1963 (London: Four Square Books; reissue in two volumes with second volume entitled New Worlds for Old)

As Editor, SF Stories

Time to Come: Science Fiction Stories of Tomorrow

1954 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young); 1958 (New York: Berkley Publishing, paperback) ;1963 (London: Consul Books); 1965 (New York: Tower, paperback)

As Editor, SF Stories

The Time of Infinity

1961 (London: Consul Books, second volume in the reissue of The Outer Reaches)

As Editor, SF Stories

From Other Worlds

1963 (London: Four Square Books, second volume inn a two-volume reissue of Beachheads in Space)

As Editor, SF Stories

New Worlds for Old

1963 (London: Four Square Books; Second volume in reissue of Worlds of Tomorrow)

As Editor, SF Stories

Harrigan’s File

1975 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

SF Short Stories

Crime Stories

Title

Year Published

Notes

Consider Your Verdict: Ten Coroner's Cases for You to Solve

1937 (New York: Stackpole)

Written under the pseudonym Tally Mason

Wisconsin Murders

1968 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

History, Crime Stories

Macabre

Title

Year Published

Notes

The Outsider and Others

1939 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

By H. P. Lovecraft (Edited by Donald Wandrei and August Derleth), As Editor, Macabre Stories

Someone in the Dark

1941 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1978 (New York: Jove/HBJ - paperback)

Macabre Stories

Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur

1944 (New York: Farrar & Rinehart); 1944 (Armed Service Ed. R-33);1964 (London: Panther Books; paperback)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

Best Supernatural Stories by H.P. Lovecraft

1945 (New York: The World Publishing)

Edited, with an introduction by August Derleth, Macabre Stories

The Lurker at the Threshold

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1945 (London: Museum Press); 1968 (London: Gollancz Press - reissued); 1946 (Bueos Aires: Molino; Published as El Que Acecha en El Umbral)

Novel; With H. P. Lovecraft, Macabre

Something Near

1945 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Macabre Stories

Who Knocks? Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur

1946 (New York: Rinehart)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

Dark of the Moon : Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre

1947 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Macabre poetry

The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible

1947 (New York: Rinehart)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

The Sleeping and the Dead

1947 (Chicago: Pellegrini and Cudahy): 1964 (London: Four Square Books; reissued in two volumes with 2nd volume entitled The Unquiet Grave)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

Not Long for This World

1948 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House) ; 1961 (New York: Ballantine Books; paperback)

Macabre Stories

The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror

1951 (London: Gollancz); 1969; 1977

By H. P. Lovecraft And Edited By August Derleth; As Editor; Macabre Stories

Night’s Yawning Peal

1952 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy for Arkham House)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

The Survivor and Others

1957 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1962: (New York: Ballantine Books, paperback)

Macabre Stories; With H. P. Lovecraft

The Mask of Cthulhu

1958 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House) 1971 (New York: Beagle Books, paperback); 1961 (London: Consul Books); 1974 (Jersey: Neville Spearman); 1996 (New York: Carroll & Graf, paperback)

Macabre Stories

Fire and Sleet and Candlelight

1961 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

As Editor, Macabre Poetry

Dark Mind, Dark Heart

1962 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

Lonesome Places

1962 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Macabre Stories

The Trail of Cthulhu

1962 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1971 (New York: Beagle Books, paperback); 1974 (Jersey: Spearman, English edition); 1966 (London: Panther Books, paperback); 1966 (New York: Carroll & Graf, paperback)

Macabre Stories

The Dunwich Horror and Others: The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft

1963 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House) 1963 (New York: Lancer Books, paperback; includes Derleth’s introduction and seven stories from the original edition);

Editor, Macabre Stories

Mr. George and Other Odd Persons

1963 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1965 (London: Tandem Books Limited, published as When Graveyards Yawn); 1964 (New York: Belmont, paperback)

As By Stephen Grendon, Pseudonym, Macabre Stories

When Evil Wakes: A New Anthology of the Macabre

1963 (London: Souvenir Press); 1965 (London: Corgi, paperback); 1977 (London: Sphere Books)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

At The Mountains of Madness and Other Novels

1964 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1966 (London: Gollancz)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

Over the Edge

1964 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1967 (London: Gollancz)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People

1966 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

With Mark Schorer; Macabre Stories

Dagon and Other Macabre Stories

1965 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

By H. P. Lovecraft; As Editor, Macabre Stories

When Graveyards Yawn

1965 (London: Tandem Books Limited);

Reissue of Mr. George and Other Odd Persons; Macabre Stories

Travelers by Night

1967 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1968 (London: Gollancz)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

The Shadow Out Of Time

1968, 1973, 1977 (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.)

By H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Macabre Stories

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

1969 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1975 (London: Panther Books, two volumes)

By H. P. Lovecraft and Others (compiled by August Derleth)

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions

1970 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1975 (London: Panther Books, published in two volumes as The Horror in the Museum and The Horror in the Burying Ground)

By H. P. Lovecraft, As Editor, Macabre Stories

Dark Things

1971 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

As Editor, Macabre Stories

The Watchers Out of Time and Others

1974 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House); 1996 (New York: Carroll & Graf, published as The Watchers Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft, Derleth not credited, paperback)

By H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Macabre Stories

Dwellers in Darkness

1976 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Macabre Stories

Young Readers

Title

Year Published

Notes

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

A Boy's Way

1947 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry for young readers

It's a Boy's World: Poems

1948 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry for young readers

The Country of the Hawk

1952 (New York: Aladdin Books)

Junior Fiction

The Captive Island

1952 (New York: Aladdin Books); 1960 (Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Junior Fiction

Empire of Fur: Trading in the Lake Superior Region

1953 (New York: Aladdin Books)

Juvenile History

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

St. Ignatius and the Company of Jesus

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

Juvenile Biography

Columbus and the New World

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

Junior Biography

The Moon Tenders

1958 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Mill Creek Irregulars

1959 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars; Junior Mystery

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

Wilbur the Trusting Whippoorwill

1959 (Sauk City, WI: Stanton and Lee)

Poetry For Young Readers

The Ghost of Black Hawk Island

1961 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

Sweet Land of Michigan

1962 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Junior History

The Tent Show Summer

1963 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Irregulars Strike Again

1964 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The House by the River

1965 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Watcher on the Heights

1966 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Beast in Holger’s Woods

1968 (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co.)

Juvenile Mystery

The Prince Goes West

1968 (New York: Meredith Press)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

The Three Straw Men

1970 (New York: Candlelight Press)

Mill Creek Irregulars, Junior Mystery

Cross-Genre Anthologies

Title

Year Published

Notes

The Arkham Sampler Vols 1-2

1948 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

As Editor; Articles, Fiction Verse, Anthology

The Arkham Collector

1971 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House)

Vol. I: 1967-1971, As Editor, Articles, Fiction, Verse, Anthology

An August Derleth Reader

1992 (Prairie Oak Press, paperback)

Jim Stephens, Editor, Anthology

Miscellaneous

Title

Year Published

Notes

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

H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium

1963[?] (N.P The Riverside Quarterly)

Annotated By August Derleth; Sponsored By The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society

A House Above Cuzco

1969 (The Candlelight Press)

Novella

Aunt May Strikes Again!

1996 (Shelburne, ON: Hawk and Whippoorwill)

A Souvenir of the 25th Anniversary Celebration in Sauk City, Wisconsin, 30 June 1996; Introduced by Peter Ruber

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