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About August Derleth

August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre and helped found Arkham House, a publishing company which did much to introduce hardcover prints of United Kingdom supernatural fiction works to the United States. Derleth was also a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography. He created the fictional detective Solar Pons, a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing.

August Derleth writes about Fiction, Wisconsin, American Horror tales, Horror tales, Solar Pons (Fictitious character), and Private investigators. Their best-known work is The Lurker at the Threshold.

On FindMyTBR we track 10 books by August Derleth, 7 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Traveler in Time: A Visit That Changes Everything, Birkett's Twelfth Corpse: The Reckoning At Hiney’s Slough, and In Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons, Book 1 (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.