# August Derleth bibliography

This is a list of the writings of the American writer August Derleth.

## Novels

* 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) - includes "More from Dr. Parker's Notebooks"

### Posthumous Collections

* The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition (2000)
* The Apocrypha of Solar Pons (2018)
* The Dragnet Solar Pons et al. (2011)
* The Arrival of Solar Pons: Early Manuscripts and Pulp Magazine Appearances of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street (2023)

## 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