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)

• Mill Creek Irregulars

• The Moon Tenders (1958)

• The Mill Creek Irregulars (1959)

• The Pinkertons Ride Again (1960)

• The Ghost of Blackhawk Island (1961)

• The Tent Show Summer (1963)

• The Irregulars Strike Again (1964)

• The House by the River (1965)

• The Watcher on the Heights (1966)

• The Prince Goes West (1968)

• Three Straw Men (1970)

• Judge Peck mysteries

• Murder Stalks the Wakely Family (1934)

• The Man on All Fours (1934)

• Sign of Fear (1935)

• Three Who Died (1935)

• Sentence Deferred (1939)

• The Narracong Riddle (1940)

• The Seven Who Waited (1943)

• Mischief in the Lane (1944)

• No Future for Luana (1945)

• Fell Purpose (1953)

• Other

• Bright Journey (1940)

• Oliver, The Wayward Owl (1945)

• The Country of the Hawk (1952)

• The Captive Island (1952)

• 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)

• Wilbur, The Trusting Whippoorwill (1959)

• The Hills Stand Watch (1960)

• Sweet Land of Michigan (1962)

• The Beast in Holger's Woods (1968)

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

 * "In Re: Sherlock Holmes" – The Adventures of Solar Pons (UK: The Adventures of Solar Pons) (1945)
 * The Memoirs of Solar Pons (1951)
 * Three Problems for Solar Pons (1952)
 * The Return of Solar Pons (1958)
 * The Reminiscences of Solar Pons (1961)
 * The Adventure of The Orient Express (short tale, 1964)
 * Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (novel, 1968)
 * Terror over London (novel)
 * The Casebook of Solar Pons (1965)
 * A Praed Street Dossier (1968)
 * The Chronicles of Solar Pons (1973)
 * The Solar Pons Omnibus (1982)
 * The Final Adventures of Solar Pons (1998)

Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos

 * Someone in the Dark (1941)
 * Something Near (1945)
 * Not Long for this World (1948)
 * The Survivor and Others (1957)
 * The Mask of Cthulhu (1958)
 * Lonesome Places (1962)
 * The Trail of Cthulhu (1962)
 * Mr. George and Other Odd Persons (1963) as Stephen Grendon
 * Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People (1966) with Mark Schorer
 * The Watchers Out of Time and Others (1974)
 * Dwellers in Darkness (1976)
 * In Lovecraft's Shadow (1998)
 * Who Shall I Say is Calling & Other Stories S. Deziemianowicz, ed. (2009)
 * The Sleepers and Other Wakeful Things (2009)
 * August Derleth's Eerie Creatures (2009)
 * That Is Not Dead: The Black Magic & Occult Stories by August Derleth (2009)

Science fiction

 * Harrigan's File (1975)

Other

 * Consider Your Verdict (1937) as Tally Mason

Short fiction
• 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)

• "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)

• 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)
 * Walden West (1961)
 * Countryman's Journal (1963)
 * 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
• Regional Writing, The Writer, July 1944

• Horror Fiction, The Writer, May 1945

• 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)

• 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

 * The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles (1942)
 * The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (1948)
 * Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesus (1956)
 * Columbus and the New World (1957)
 * Father Marquette and the Great Rivers (1959)
 * Wisconsin Murders (1968)
 * Vincennes: Portal to the West (1968)

Anthologies
• Poetry Out of Wisconsin (1937)

• Sleep No More (1944)

• Who Knocks? (1946)

• The Night Side (1947)

• The Sleeping and the Dead (1947)

• Strange Ports of Call (1948)

• The Other Side of the Moon (1949)

• Beyond Time and Space (1950)

• Far Boundaries (1951)

• The Outer Reaches (1951)

• Beachheads in Space (1952)

• Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company (1952)

• Worlds of Tomorrow (1953)

• Portals of Tomorrow (1954)

• Time to Come (1954)

• Dark Mind, Dark Heart (1962)

• New Worlds for Old (1963)

• The Sleeping and the Dead (abridged) (1963)

• The Time of Infinity (1963)

• The Unquiet Grave (1963)

• When Evil Wakes (1963)

• From Other Worlds (1964)

• Over the Edge (1964)

• Travellers by Night (1967)

• Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1969)

• Dark Things (1971)

• New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow (1998)

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 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