Bibliography of August Derleth

Poetry

 * Hawk on the Wind. Philadelphia: Ritten House, 1938.
 * Elegy on a Flake of Snow. Muscatine, IA: Prairie Press, 1938.
 * Man Track Here. Philadelphia: Ritten House, 1939.
 * Here on a Darkling Plain. Philadelphia: Ritten House, 1940.
 * Wind in the Elms. Philadelphia: Ritten House, 1941.
 * Rind of Earth. Prairie City, IL: Decker Press, 1942.
 * And You, Thoreau!. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1944.
 * Selected Poems. Prairie City, IL: Decker Press, 1944.
 * The Edge of Night. Prairie City, IL: Decker Press, 1945.
 * The Habitant of Dusk: A garland for Cassandra. Boston: Walden Press, 1946.
 * Dark of the Moon: Poems of fantasy and the macabre. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947.
 * Country Poems. Iowa City, IA: Prairie Press, 1952.
 * Rendezvous in a Landscape. New York: Fine Editions Press, 1952.
 * Psyche. Iowa City, IA: Prairie Press, 1953.
 * Elegy: On the umbral moon. Forest Park, IL: Acorn Press, 1957.
 * West of Morning. Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press, 1960.
 * This Wound. Iowa City, IA; Prairie Press, 1962.
 * Country Places. Iowa City, IA; Prairie Press, 1965.
 * The Only Place We Live. Iowa City, IA; Prairie Press, 1966.
 * By Owl Light. Iowa City, IA; Prairie Press, 1967.
 * Collected Poems, 1937-1967. New York: Candlelight Press, 1967; Shelburne, ON: Hawk & Whippoorwill, 1995.
 * Caitlin. Iowa City, IA; Prairie Press, 1969.
 * The Landscape of the Heart. Iowa City, IA; Prairie Press, 1970.
 * Love Letters to Caitlin. New York: Candlelight Press, 1971 (not released).


 * The Only Place We Live (by August Derleth, Jesse Stuart, & Robert E. Gard; edited by Mark E. Lefebvre). Madison, WI: Wisconsin House, 1976.

Novels

 * The Lurker at the Threshhold (with H.P. Lovecraft). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1945; London: Museum Press, 1945; London: Gollacz, 1968.
 * Death by Design. New York; Arcadia House, 1953.
 * The Pinkertons Ride Again (1960)

Sac Prairie Saga

 * Still is the Summer Night. New York: Scribner, 1937.
 * Wind Over Wisconsin. New York: Scibner, 1938; New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1956.
 * Any Day Now (novella). Chicago: Normandy House, 1938.
 * Restless is the River. New York: Scribner, 1939.
 * Evening in Spring. New York: Scribner, 1941.
 * Sweet Genevieve. New York: Scribner, 1942.
 * Shadow of Night. New York: Scribner, 1943.
 * The Shield of the Valiant. New York: Scribner, 1945.
 * The House of Moonlight (novella). Iowa City, IA: Prairie Press, 1953.

Wisconsin Saga

 * Bright Journey. New York: Scribner, 1940.
 * The House on the Mound. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1958; Shelburne, ON: Hawk & Whippoorwill, 1996.
 * The Hills Stand Watch. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1960.
 * The Shadow in the Glass. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1963.
 * The Wind Leans West. New York: Candlelight Press, 1969.

Judge Peck series

 * The Man on All Fours. New York: Loring & Mussey, 1934.
 * Murder Stalks the Wakely Family. New York: Loring & Mussey, 1934
 * published in UK as Death Stalks the Wakely Family. London: Newnes, 1937. *
 * Sign of Fear. New York: Loring & Mussey, 1935.
 * Three Who Died. New York: Loring & Mussey, 1935.
 * Sentence Deferred. New York: Scribner, 1939.
 * The Narracong Riddle. New York: Scribner, 1940; London: Heinemann, 1940.
 * The Seven Who Waited. New York: Scribner, 1943; London: Muller, 1945.
 * Mischief in the Lane. New York: Scribner, 1944; London: Muller, 1945.
 * No Future for Luana. New York: Scribner, 1945.
 * Fell Purpose''. New York: Arcadia House, 1953.

Short fiction

 * Someone in the Dark. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1941; New York: Jove / HBJ, 1978.
 * Something Near. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1945.
 * Not Long for This World. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948.
 * The Survivor, and others (with H.P. Lovecraft). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1957; New York: Ballantine, 1962.
 * The Mask of Cthulu. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1958; London: Consul Books, 1961; New York: Beagle Books, 1971; Jersey: Neville, Spearman, 1974; New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996.
 * Lonesome Places. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1962.
 * The Trail of Cthulu. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1962; New York: Beagle Books, 1971; Jersey: Spearman, 1974; London: Panther, 1966; New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996.
 * Mr. George, and other odd persons (as "Stephen Grendon"). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1963; New York: Belmont, 1964.
 * also published as When Graveyards Yawn. London: Tandem Books, 1965.
 * Colonel Markesan, and less pleasant people (with Mark Schorer). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1966.
 * The Shadow out of Time (with H.P. Lovecraft). London: Gollancz, 1968, 1973, 1977.
 * Consider Your Verdict: Ten coroner's cases for you to solve (as "Tally Mason"). New York: Stackpole, 1973.
 * The Watchers out of Time, and others (with H.P. Lovecraft). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1974
 * also published as The Watchers out of Time. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996.
 * Harrigan's File (science fiction). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975.
 * Dwellers in Darkness. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1976.

Sac Prairie Saga

 * Place of Hawks. New York: Long & Mussey, 1935.
 * Country Growth. New York: Scribner, 1940.
 * Wisconsin Earth: A Sac Prairie Sampler (1948)
 * Sac Prairie People. Sauk City, WI: (1948)
 * Wisconsin in Their Bones. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1961.
 * Country Matters (edited by Peter Ruber). Shelburne, ON: Hawk & Whippoorwill, 1996.
 * Return to Sac Prairie(edited by Peter Ruber). Shelburne, ON: Hawk & Whippoorwill, 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 Magaizine 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]]. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1945
 * also published as Regarding Sherlock Holmes: The adventures of Solar Pons;;. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1974
 * published in UK as The Adventures of Solar Pons. London: Robson Books, 1975; London: Futura, 1976.
 * The Memoirs of Solar Pons. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1951; New York: Unicorn Book Club, 1951; New York: Pinnacle Books, 1951.
 * Three Problems for Solar Pons. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1952.
 * The Return of Solar Pons. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1958; New York: Pinnacle Books, 1975.
 * Reminiscences of Solar Pons, Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1961.
 * The Adventure of the Orient Express. New York: Candlelight, 1965;
 * published in pig-latin as Hetay Adventureyay ofyay hetay Orientyay Expressyay. Shelburne, ON: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1996.
 * The Casebook of Solar Pons. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1965; New York: Pinnacle Books, 1965.
 * Praed Street Papers. New York: Candlelight, 1965.
 * The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1968.
 * Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1968; New York: Pinnacle Books, 1976.
 * A Praed Street Dossier. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1968.
 * The Chronicles of Solar Pons. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1973; New York: Pinnacle Books, 1974; London: Robson Books, 1975.
 * The Exploits of Solar Pons (combines The Adventures of Solar Pons & The Chronicles of Solar Pons). London: Robson Books, 1975
 * The Solar Pons Omnibus Edition (edited by Basil Copper). Sauk City, WI: Arkham, House, 1982.
 * The 'Unpublished' Solar Pons. Toronto: Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, 1994.
 * The Solar Pons Portfolio (edited by George A. Vanderburgh). Shelburne, ON: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1996.
 * The Final Adventures of Solar Pons (1998)

Non-fiction

 * Heritage of Sauk City. Sauk City, WI: Pioneer Press, 1931.
 * Wisconsin Literature. Sauk City, IA: 1941; revised, 1942.
 * The Wisconsin: River of a thousand isles. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942; Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
 * Writing Fiction. Boston: The Writer, 1946; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
 * Sweet Land of Michigan. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1962.
 * A Wisconsin Harvest. Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1966.
 * Wisconsin. New York: Coward-McCann (States of the Nation Series), 1967.
 * Return to Derleth: Selected essays (edited by James P. Roberts). (2 volumes), White Hawk Press, 1993.

History

 * The Milwaukee Road: Its first hundred years. New York: Creative Age, 1948.
 * Sauk County: A centennial history. Baraboo, WI: Sauk County Centennial Committee, 1948.
 * Vincennes: Portal to the west. New York: Prentice Hall, 1968.
 * Wisconsin Murders. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1968.
 * The Wisconsin Valley: A student guide to localized history. New York: Teachers College Press, 1969.

Biography

 * Still Small Voice: Biography of Zona Gale. New York: D. Appleton, 1940.
 * H.P.L.: A Memoir. New York: Ben Adamson, 1945.
 * Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft (1959)
 * Concord Rebel: A life of Henry D. Thoreau. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1962; New York: Avon, 1962.
 * Three Literary Men: A memoir of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters. New York: Candlelight Press, 1963.
 * The Forest Orphans. New York: Ernest, 1964
 * revised as Mr. Conservation. Park Falls, WI: MacGregor Litho, 1971.
 * Walden Pond: Homage to Thoreau. Iowa City, IA: Prairie Press, 1968.
 * Emerson, Our Contemporary. New York: Crowell-Collier, 1970.

Juvenile

 * Bill's Diary (poetry). Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1945.
 * Oliver, the Wayward Owl (poetry). Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1945.
 * A Boy's Way (poetry). Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1947.
 * It's a Boy's World: Poems. Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1948.
 * The Country of the Hawk. New York: Aladdin Books, 1952.
 * The Captive Island. New York: Aladdin Books; New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1960.
 * Empire of Fur: Trading in the Lake Superior Region. New York: Aladdin Books, 1953.
 * Land of Gray Gold : Lead Mining in Wisconsin. New York: Aladdin Books, 1954.
 * Land of the Sky-Blue Waters. New York: Aladdin Books, 1955.
 * St. Ignatius and the Company of Jesus. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1955; London: Burns & Oates, 1956.
 * Father Marquette and the Great Rivers. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy, 1955; London: Burns & Oates, 1955
 * condensed, New York: Guild Press, 1962.
 * Columbus and the New World. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy, 1957; London: Burns & Oates, 1957.
 * Wilbur, the Trusting Whippoorwill (poetry). Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1959.
 * The Beast in Holger’s Woods (myster). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968.

Mill Creek Irregulars

 * The Moon Tenders. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1958.
 * The Mill Creek Irregulars. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1959.
 * The Ghost of Black Hawk Island. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1961.
 * The Tent Show Summer. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1963.
 * The Irregulars Strike Again. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1964.
 * The House by the River. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1965.
 * The Watcher on the Heights. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1966.
 * The Prince Goes West. New York: Meredith Press, 1968.
 * The Three Straw Men. New York: Candlelight, 1970.

Collected editions

 * Wisconsin Earth: A Sac Prairie sampler (contains Place of Hawks, Shadow of Night, & Village Year). Chicago: Stanton & Lee, 1948.

Edited

 * Poetry out of Wisconsin (edited with R.E. Larsson). New York: Harrison, 1937.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider, and others (edited with Donald Wandrei). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1939.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, Best Supernatural Stories. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1945.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, Marginalia (collected by Derleth & Donald Wandrei). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1945.
 * Who Knocks? Twenty masterpieces of the spectral for the connoisseur. New York: Rinehart, 1946.
 * The Night Side: Masterpieces of the strange and terrible. New York: Rinehart, 1947.
 * The Sleeping and the Dead (stories). Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947; London: Four Square Books, 1964.
 * Strange Ports of Call (sf stories). New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1948; New York: Berkley, 1958.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, Something About Cats, and other pieces. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1949.
 * The Other Side of the Moon (sf stories). New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1949; London: Grayson, 1956; New York: Berkley, 1959; London: Panther, 1963; London: Mayflower, 1966.
 * Beyond Time and Space (sf stories). New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1950; New York: Berkley, 1950.
 * Far Boundaries: 20 science-fiction stories. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark, and other tales of terror. London: Gollancz, 1951.
 * The Outer Reaches: Favorite science fiction tales chosen by their authors. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951; New York: Berkley, 1958
 * also published as The Outer Reaches & The Time of Infinity. (2 volumes), London: Consul, 1963.
 * Night's Yawning Peal. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy / Arkham House, 1952.
 * Beachheads in Space. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952; London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1954; New York: Berkley, 1958
 * also published as Beachheads in Space & From Other Worlds. (2 volumes), London: Four Square, 1964.
 * Portals of Tomorrow: The best of science fiction and other fantasy. New York: Rinehard, 1953; London: Cassell, 1956.
 * Worlds of Tomorrow: Science fiction with a difference. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1953; London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1954; New York: Berkley, 1958
 * also published as Worlds of Tomorrow & New Worlds for Old. (2 volumes), London: Four Square, 1963.
 * Time to Come: Science fiction stories of tomorrow. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Young, 1954; New York: Berkley, 1958; London: Consul, 1963; New York: Tower, 1965
 * H.P. Lovecraft, The Shuttered Room, and other pieces. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1959.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, Some Notes on a Nonentity. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1959; London: Villiers, 1963.
 * Hawk and Whippoorwill (quarterly poetry journal). Sauk City, WI: Hawk & Whippoorwill, 1960.
 * Fire and Steel and Candlelight (poetry). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1961.
 * Dark Mind, Dark Heart (stories). Sauk City, Wi: Arkham House, 1962.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror, and others: The best supernatural stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1963
 * abridged version, New York: Lancer, 1963.
 * When Evil Wakes: A new anthology of the macabre. London: Souvenir Press, 1963; London: Corgi, 1965; London: Sphere Books, 1977.
 * At the Mountains of Madness, and other novels. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1964; London: Gollancz, 1966.
 * Over the Edge (stories). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1964; London: Gollancz, 1967.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon, and other macabre stories. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1965.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters. (5 volumes), Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1965-1976
 * Volume 1: 1911-1925 (edited with Donald Wandrei). 1965.
 * Volume 2: 1925-1929. (edited with Donald Wandrei). 1968.
 * Volume 3: 1929-1931 (edited with Donald Wandrei). 1971.
 * Volume 4: 1932-1934 (edited With James Turner). 1976.
 * Volume 5: 1934-1937 (edited With James Turner). 1976.
 * Travellers by Night (stories). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1967; London: Gollancz, 1968.
 * Tales of the Cthulu Mythos. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1969; (2 volumes), London: Panther Books, 1975.
 * New Poetry out of Wisconsin. Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1969.
 * H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror in the Museum, and other revisions. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1970
 * published in UK as The Horror in the Museum & The Horror in the Burying Ground. (2 volumes), London: Panther Books, 1975.
 * Dark Things (stories). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971.

Journals (Sac Prairie Saga)

 * Atmosphere of Houses (1939)
 * Village Year: A Sac Prairie Journal (1941)
 * Village Daybook: A Sac prairie journal. Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947.
 * Countryman's Journal. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1963.
 * Walden West. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce: 1961; Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
 * Wisconsin Country: A Sac Prairie Journal (1965)
 * Return to Walden West. New York: Candlelight Press, 1970.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy August Derleth Society.

Short stories
• 2

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)

Essays/articles
• 2

Anthologies
• 2

As Stephen Grendon
• 2

With H. P. Lovecraft
• 2

With Marc R. Schorer
• 2

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