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August Derleth

Index August Derleth

August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. [1]

173 relations: A Praed Street Dossier, Advent:Publishers, Alexandre Dumas, American literary regionalism, Americans, Anthony Boucher, Arkham, Arkham House, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Derleth Award, Avocation, Bachelor's degree, Beachheads in Space, Beyond Time and Space, Biography, Board of education, Brian Lumley, Buster Brown, Charles Scribner's Sons, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Clark Ashton Smith, Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People, Cthulhu Mythos, Dark Carnival (short story collection), Dark Forces (book), Dark Mind, Dark Heart, Dark Things, Detective fiction, Dirk W. Mosig, Donald Wandrei, Dwellers in Darkness, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, Ellery Queen, Esquire (magazine), Fantasy, Far Boundaries, Fawcett Publications, From Other Worlds, Gangster Stories, Great Depression, Guggenheim Fellowship, H. L. Mencken, H. P. Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft bibliography, Hamlin Garland, Harrigan's File, Hastur, Henry David Thoreau, ..., Historical fiction, Honoré de Balzac, Horror fiction, In Lovecraft's Shadow, In Re: Sherlock Holmes, In Search of Lost Time, Jacques Marquette, Jesse Stuart, Kirby McCauley, La Comédie humaine, Library of America, Lin Carter, List of authors of new Sherlock Holmes stories, List of horror fiction writers, List of people from Wisconsin, Little Nemo, Lonesome Places, Lovecraftian horror, Mack Reynolds, Madison, Wisconsin, Marcel Proust, Mark Schorer, Massachusetts, Maxwell Perkins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey, Mr. George and Other Odd Persons, Mycroft & Moran, Mystery fiction, New Horizons (book), New Worlds for Old (Derleth), New York Herald Tribune, Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company, Norbert Blei, Not Long for this World, Old One in fiction, Over the Edge (anthology), Parent-Teacher Association, Pen name, Peter Ruber, Philately, Poetry, Portals of Tomorrow, Praed Street, Psychological fiction, Pulitzer Prize, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury, Richard L. Tierney, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Robert M. Price, S. T. Joshi, Samuel Johnson, Sauk City, Wisconsin, Science fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes pastiches, Sinclair Lewis, Sleep No More (anthology), Solar Pons, Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft, Someone in the Dark, Something Near, Spoon River Anthology, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Star Weekly, Strange Ports of Call, The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians, The American Mercury, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Capital Times, The Casebook of Solar Pons, The Chronicles of Solar Pons, The Detroit News, The Final Adventures of Solar Pons, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, The Katzenjammer Kids, The Lonesome Place, The Lurker at the Threshold, The Mask of Cthulhu, The Memoirs of Solar Pons, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Night Side, The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition, The Other Side of the Moon (anthology), The Outer Reaches, The Outsider and Others, The Reminiscences of Solar Pons, The Return of Solar Pons, The Sleeping and the Dead, The Solar Pons Omnibus, The Survivor and Others, The Time of Infinity, The Trail of Cthulhu, The Unquiet Grave (anthology), The Watchers Out of Time and Others, Three Problems for Solar Pons, Time to Come, Toronto, Travellers by Night, U.S. Route 12 in Wisconsin, University of California, Berkeley, University of Wisconsin Press, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vincent Starrett, Walden, Walt Whitman, Walter Scott, Weird fiction, Weird Tales, When Evil Wakes, Who Knocks?, Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Murders, Wisconsin River, Worlds of Tomorrow, Zen Arcade, Zona Gale, 6th World Science Fiction Convention. Expand index (123 more) »

A Praed Street Dossier

A Praed Street Dossier is a collection of detective fiction short stories, essays and marginalia by author August Derleth.

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Advent:Publishers

Advent:Publishers is an American publishing house.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père ("father"), was a French writer.

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American literary regionalism

American literary regionalism or local color is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid to late 19th century into the early 20th century.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher (born William Anthony Parker White; August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968) was an American crime and fantastic fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories and radio drama scripts in those fields.

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Arkham

Arkham is a fictional town situated in Massachusetts.

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Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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August Derleth Award

The August Derleth Award is an annual award given out (since 1972) by members of the British Fantasy Society up to 2010 for best novel of the year and since 2012 for best horror novel.

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Avocation

An avocation is an activity that someone engages in as a hobby outside their main occupation.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Beachheads in Space

Beachheads in Space is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth.

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Beyond Time and Space

Beyond Time and Space is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth.

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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Board of education

A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level.

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Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English horror-fiction writer.

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Buster Brown

Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard F. Outcault.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

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Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People

Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People is a collection of stories by American authors August Derleth and Mark Schorer writing in collaboration.

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Cthulhu Mythos

The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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Dark Carnival (short story collection)

Dark Carnival is a short story collection by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published October 1947 by Arkham House.

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Dark Forces (book)

Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror is an anthology of 23 original horror stories, first published by The Viking Press in 1980 and as a paperback by Bantam Books in 1981.

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Dark Mind, Dark Heart

Dark Mind, Dark Heart is an anthology of horror stories edited by American writer August Derleth.

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Dark Things

Dark Things is an anthology of horror stories edited by American writer August Derleth.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Dirk W. Mosig

Yōzan Dirk W. Mosig (born 1943) is a psychologist, historian, literary critic and ordained Zen monk noted for his critical work on H. P. Lovecraft.

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Donald Wandrei

Donald Albert Wandrei (April 20, 1908 – October 15, 1987).

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Dwellers in Darkness

Dwellers in Darkness is a collection of stories by Ametican writer August Derleth.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist.

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Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is a crime fiction house name created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and later used by other authors under Dannay and Lee's supervision.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Far Boundaries

Far Boundaries is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth.

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Fawcett Publications

Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940).

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From Other Worlds

From Other Worlds is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth.

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Gangster Stories

Gangster Stories was a controversial pulp magazine of the early 1930s.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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H. L. Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.

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H. P. Lovecraft bibliography

This is a complete list of works by H. P. Lovecraft.

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Hamlin Garland

Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher.

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Harrigan's File

Harrigan's File is a collection of stories by author August Derleth.

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Hastur

Hastur (The Unspeakable One, Him Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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In Lovecraft's Shadow

In Lovecraft's Shadow: The Cthulhu Mythos Stories of August Derleth is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author August Derleth.

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In Re: Sherlock Holmes

"In Re: Sherlock Holmes"—The Adventures of Solar Pons (in the UK it was titled The Adventures of Solar Pons) is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) – previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past – is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871–1922).

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Jacques Marquette

Father Jacques Marquette S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan.

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Jesse Stuart

Jesse Hilton Stuart (August 8, 1906 – February 17, 1984) was an American writer, school teacher, and school administrator who is known for his short stories, poetry, and novels as well as non-fiction autobiographical works set in central Appalachia.

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Kirby McCauley

Kirby McCauley (September 11, 1941 – August 30, 2014) was an American literary agent and editor based in New York City.

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La Comédie humaine

La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy) is the title of Honoré de Balzac's (1799–1850) multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848).

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic.

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List of authors of new Sherlock Holmes stories

The following is an alphabetical list and selected bibliography of authors, other than Sherlock Holmes's creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who have written Holmes stories.

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List of horror fiction writers

This is a list of some (not all) notable writers in the horror fiction genre.

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List of people from Wisconsin

This is a list of prominent people from the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Little Nemo

Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay.

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Lonesome Places

Lonesome Places is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American author August Derleth.

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Lovecraftian horror

Lovecraftian horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown (and in some cases, unknowable) more than gore or other elements of shock, though these may still be present.

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Mack Reynolds

Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds (November 11, 1917 – January 30, 1983) was an American science fiction writer.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

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Mark Schorer

Mark Schorer (May 17, 1908 – August 11, 1977) was an American writer, critic, and scholar born in Sauk City, Wisconsin.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Maxwell Perkins

William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins (20 September 1884 – 17 June 1947), was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey

Mr.

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Mr. George and Other Odd Persons

Mr.

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Mycroft & Moran

Mycroft & Moran was an imprint of Arkham House publishers and was created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.

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New Horizons (book)

New Horizons is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth (died 1971).

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New Worlds for Old (Derleth)

New Worlds for Old is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by American writer August Derleth.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company

Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company is an anthology of supernatural short stories edited by American writer August Derleth.

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Norbert Blei

Norbert Blei (August 23, 1935 – April 23, 2013) was an American writer of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.

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Not Long for this World

Not Long for this World is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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Old One in fiction

Old One is a term for a deity or other ancient, powerful supernatural entity.

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Over the Edge (anthology)

Over the Edge is an anthology of horror stories edited by August Derleth.

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Parent-Teacher Association

A parent-teacher association/organization (PTA/PTO) or parent-teacher-student association (PTSA) is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a school.

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Pen name

A pen name (nom de plume, or literary double) is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their "real" name.

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Peter Ruber

Peter Ruber (September 29, 1940 – March 6, 2014) was a United States author, editor and publisher.

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Philately

Philately is the study of stamps and postal history and other related items.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Portals of Tomorrow

Portals of Tomorrow is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by American writer August Derleth, intended as the first in a series of "year's best" volumes.

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Praed Street

Praed Street (pronounced) is a street in London's Paddington district (now part of the City of Westminster), most notable for its Paddington Station.

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Psychological fiction

Psychological fiction (also psychological realism) is a literary genre that emphasizes interior characterization, as well as the motives, circumstances, and internal action which is derivative from and creates external action; not content to state what happens, but rather reveals and studies the motivation behind the action.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946 in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Richard L. Tierney

Richard Louis Tierney (born August 7, 1936) is an American writer, poet and scholar of H. P. Lovecraft.

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Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.

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Robert M. Price

Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American theologian and writer, known for arguing against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. He is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus. A former Baptist minister, he was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush. Price is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, a group of 150 writers and scholars who study the historicity of Jesus, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. Secular Student Alliance, accessed April 15, 2010. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist.

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S. T. Joshi

Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958), known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Sauk City, Wisconsin

Sauk City is a village in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sherlock Holmes pastiches

Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Sleep No More (anthology)

Sleep No More was the first of three 1940s anthologies of fantasy and horror stories edited by August Derleth and illustrated by Lee Brown Coye.

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Solar Pons

Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft

Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft is a collection of biographical notes about H. P. Lovecraft by writer August Derleth.

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Someone in the Dark

Someone in the Dark is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author August Derleth.

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Something Near

Something Near is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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Spoon River Anthology

Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town, Lewistown, Illinois.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St.

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Star Weekly

The Star Weekly magazine was a Canadian periodical published from 1910 until 1973.

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Strange Ports of Call

Strange Ports of Call is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth.

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The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians

"The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians" is a detective fiction short story by author August Derleth.

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The American Mercury

The American Mercury was an American magazine published from 1924 to 1981.

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The Baker Street Irregulars

The Baker Street Irregulars is an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Christopher Morley.

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The Capital Times

The Capital Times (or Cap Times) is a newspaper published in Madison, Wisconsin by The Capital Times Company.

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The Casebook of Solar Pons

The Casebook of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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The Chronicles of Solar Pons

The Chronicles of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth.

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The Detroit News

The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.

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The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

The Final Adventures of Solar Pons is a collection of detective, science fiction short stories by author August Derleth.

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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, though often abbreviated to Rasselas, is an apologue about happiness by Samuel Johnson.

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The Katzenjammer Kids

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks and drawn by Harold H. Knerr for 35 years (1914 to 1949).

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The Lonesome Place

The Lonesome Place is a short story by American writer August Derleth.

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The Lurker at the Threshold

The Lurker at the Threshold is a horror novel by American writer August Derleth, based on short fragments written by H. P. Lovecraft, who died in 1937, and published as a collaboration between the two authors.

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The Mask of Cthulhu

The Mask of Cthulhu is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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The Memoirs of Solar Pons

The Memoirs of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years

The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years is a 1948 non-fiction book on American railroad history by August Derleth.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Night Side

The Night Side is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by American writer August Derleth and illustrated by Lee Brown Coye.

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The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition

The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth.

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The Other Side of the Moon (anthology)

The Other Side of the Moon is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth.

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The Outer Reaches

The Outer Reaches is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth.

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The Outsider and Others

The Outsider and Others is a collection of stories by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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The Reminiscences of Solar Pons

The Reminiscences of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth.

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The Return of Solar Pons

The Return of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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The Sleeping and the Dead

The Sleeping and the Dead is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by American writet August Derleth.

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The Solar Pons Omnibus

The Solar Pons Omnibus is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth.

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The Survivor and Others

The Survivor and Others is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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The Time of Infinity

The Time of Infinity is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by American writer August Derleth.

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The Trail of Cthulhu

The Trail of Cthulhu is a series of interconnected short stories by American writer August Derleth as part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction.

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The Unquiet Grave (anthology)

The Unquiet Grave is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by August Derleth.

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The Watchers Out of Time and Others

The Watchers Out of Time and Others is an omnibus collection of stories by American writer August Derleth, inspired in part by notes left by H. P. Lovecraft after his death and presented as a "posthumous collaboration" between the two writers (Derleth acted as Lovecraft's literary executor).

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Three Problems for Solar Pons

Three Problems for Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by American writer August Derleth.

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Time to Come

Time to Come is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories edited by August Derleth.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Travellers by Night

Travellers by Night is an anthology of horror stories edited by August Derleth.

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U.S. Route 12 in Wisconsin

U.S. Highway 12 (US 12 or Highway 12) in the U.S. state of Wisconsin runs east–west across the western to southeast portions of the state.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Wisconsin Press

The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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Vincent Starrett

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile.

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Walden

Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Weird fiction

Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in March 1923.

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When Evil Wakes

When Evil Wakes is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by August Derleth.

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Who Knocks?

Who Knocks? is an anthology of Fantasy and Horror stories edited by August Derleth and illustrated by Lee Brown Coye.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West.

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Wisconsin Murders

Wisconsin Murders is a collection of true crime accounts written by author August Derleth.

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Wisconsin River

The Wisconsin River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Worlds of Tomorrow

Worlds of Tomorrow is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth.

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Zen Arcade

Zen Arcade is the second studio album by American rock band Hüsker Dü, released in July 1984 on SST Records.

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Zona Gale

Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938) was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.

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6th World Science Fiction Convention

The 6th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as Torcon, was held July 3–5, 1948, at RAI Purdy Studios in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Derleth

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