Family: Born February 24, 1909, in Sauk City, WI; died July 4, 1971, in Sauk City, WI; son of William Julius and Rose Louise (Volk) Derleth; married Sandra Evelyn Winters, April 6, 1953 (divorced March, 1959); children: April Rose, Walden William. Education: University of Wisconsin, B.A., 1930. Hobbies and other interests: Collecting American commemorative stamps and comic books. Memberships: Authors Guild, Midland Authors, Baker Street Irregulars, American Folklore Society, Poetry Society of America, P.E.N., Wisconsin State Historical Society, Milwaukee Press Club, Cliff Dwellers Club (Chicago).

• (Under pseudonym Tally Mason) Consider Your Verdict, Stackpole, 1937.
• Any Day Now, Normandie, 1938.
• (Author of foreword) C. Dwiggins, Bill's Diary, Arkham, 1945.
• Writing Fiction, Writer, Inc., 1946, reprinted, Greenwood Press, 1971.
• Sauk County: A Centennial History, Sauk County Centennial Committee, 1948.
• Arkham House: The First 20 Years--1939-59, Arkham, 1959.
• Walden West, Duell, 1961, woodcuts by Grisha Dotzenko, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
• Countryman's Journal, Duell, 1963.
• The Time of Infinity, World Distributors, 1963.
• Three Literary Men: A Memoir of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Candlelight Press, 1963, reprinted, Norwood, 1980.
• Forest Orphans, Ernest, 1964.
• (Author of introduction) H. P. Lovecraft, The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces, Arkham, 1966.
• Wisconsin Murders, Mycroft, 1968.
• A House above Cuzco, Candlelight Press, 1969.
• Return to Walden West, Candlelight Press, 1970.
• Thirty Years of Arkham House, 1939-1969, Arkham, 1970.
• Last Light, Perishable Press (Mt. Horeb, WI), 1978.

• Hawk on the Wind, Ritten House, 1938.
• Man Track Here, Ritten House, 1939.
• Here on a Darkling Plain, Ritten House, 1940.
• Wind in the Elms, Ritten House, 1941.
• Rind of Earth, Decker, 1942.
• Selected Poems, Decker, 1944.
• And You, Thoreau!, New Directions, 1944.
• The Edge of Night, Decker, 1945.
• Psyche, 1953.
• Country Poems, 1956.
• West of Morning, Golden Quill, 1960.
• This Wound, 1962.
• Country Places, 1965.
• (With Jesse Stuart and Robert E. Gard) The Only Place We Live, 1966.
• By Owl Light, 1967.
• Walden Pond: Homage to Thoreau, 1968.
• Caitlin, 1969.
• The Landscape of the Heart, 1970.
• Love Letters to Caitlin, 1971.

• Still Small Voice: The Biography of Zona Gale, Appleton, 1940.
• H.P.L.: A Memoir, Ben Abramson, 1945.
• Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham, 1959, reprinted, Arden Library, 1980.
• Emerson, Our Contemporary, Crowell, 1970.

• The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles, Farrar Rinehart, 1942, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 1985.
• The Milwaukee Road: Its First 100 Years, Creative Age Press, 1948.
• Vincennes: Portal to the West, Prentice-Hall, 1968.
• The Wisconsin Valley, Teachers College Press, 1969.

• (With Clare Victor Dwiggins) Oliver, the Wayward Owl, Stanton Lee, 1945.
• A Boy's Way, Stanton Lee, 1947.
• It's a Boy's World, Stanton Lee, 1948.
• The Captive Island, Aladdin, 1952.
• The Country of the Hawk, Aladdin, 1952.
• Empire of Fur, Aladdin, 1953.
• The Land of Grey Gold, Aladdin, 1954.
• Father Marquette and the Great Rivers, Vision Books, 1955.
• Land of Sky-Blue Waters, Aladdin, 1955.
• St. Ignatius and the Company of Jesus, Vision Books, 1956.
• Columbus and the New World, Farrar, Straus, 1957.
• The Moon Tenders, 1958.
• The Mill Creek Irregulars, 1959.
• Wilbur, the Trusting Whippoorwill, Stanton Lee, 1959.
• The Pinkertons Ride Again, 1960.
• The Ghost of Black Hawk Island, 1961.
• Sweet Land of Michigan, 1962.
• Concord Rebel: A Life of Henry D. Thoreau, Chilton, 1962.
• The Tent Show Summer, 1963.
• The Irregulars Strike Again, 1964.
• The House by the River, 1965.
• The Watcher on the Heights, 1966.
• Wisconsin: A Profile, Coward, 1967.
• The Beast in Holger's Woods, Crowell, 1968.
• The Prince Goes West, Meredith Press, 1968.
• The Three Straw Men, Candlelight Press, 1970.

• Murder Stalks the Wakely Family, Loring Mussey, 1934.
• The Man on All Fours, Loring Mussey, 1934.
• Three Who Died, Loring Mussey, 1935.
• Sign of Fear, Loring Mussey, 1935.
• Sentence Deferred, Scribner, 1940.
• The Narracong Riddle, Scribner, 1940.
• The Seven Who Waited, Scribner, 1943.
• Mischief in the Lane, Scribner, 1944.
• No Future for Luana, Scribner, 1945.
• Fell Purpose, Arcadia, 1953.
• Death by Design, Arcadia, 1953.

• Place of Hawks (also see below), Loring Mussey, 1935.
• Still Is the Summer Night (novel), Scribner, 1937.
• Wind over Wisconsin (novel), Scribner, 1938.
• Any Day Now, Normandie, 1938.
• Restless Is the River (novel), Scribner, 1939.
• Country Growth, Scribner, 1940.
• Bright Journey (novel), Scribner, 1940.
• Evening in Spring (novel), Scribner, 1941.
• Village Year: A Sac Prairie Journal (also see below), Coward, 1941.
• Sweet Genevieve (novel; also see below), Scribner, 1942.
• Shadow of Night (novel; also see below), Scribner, 1943.
• The Seven Who Waited (novel), Scribner, 1943.
• The Shield of the Valiant (novel), Scribner, 1945.
• Village Daybook: A Sac Prairie Journal, Pellegrini Cudahy, 1947.
• Wisconsin Earth: A Sac Prairie Sampler (contains Place of Hawks, Shadow of Night, and Village Year: A Sac Prairie Journal), Arkham, 1948, reprinted, Greenwood Press, 1971.
• Sac Prairie People, Stanton Lee, 1948.
• The House of Moonlight, Prairie Press, 1953.
• Wisconsin in Their Bones, Duell, 1961.
• The Lost Sac Prairie Novels, collected and introduced by Peter Ruber, Hawk & Whippoorwill (Shelburne, Ontario), 2000.

• Bright Journey, Scribner, 1940.
• The House on the Mound, Duell, 1958, reprinted, E.V.A., 1973.
• The Hills Stand Watch, Duell, 1960.
• The Shadow in the Glass, Duell, 1963.
• The Wind Leans West, Candlelight Press, 1969.

• "In Re: Sherlock Holmes"--The Adventures of Solar Pons, 1945, reprinted, Robson Books, 1975, published as Regarding Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons, Futura, 1976.
• 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 Casebook of Solar Pons, 1965.
• The Adventure of the Orient Express, Candlelight Press, 1965.
• Praed Street Papers, Candlelight Press, 1965.
• Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey, 1968.
• A Praed Street Dossier, 1968.
• The Chronicles of Solar Pons, 1973.
• The Exploits of Solar Pons, Robson Books, 1977.
• The Solar Pons Omnibus, edited by Basil Copper, illustrated by Frank Utpatel, foreword by Robert Bloch, Arkham, 1982.
• The Final Adventures of Solar Pons, edited and introduced by Peter Ruber, Mycroft and Moran/Battered Silicon Dispatch Box (Shelburne, Ontario), 1998.
• The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition, introduction by Peter Ruber, collected and edited by George A. Vanderburgh, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box (Shelburne, Ontario), 2000.

• Someone in the Dark, 1941, reprinted, Lighthouse, 1980.
• Something Near, 1945.
• Not Long for This World, 1948.
• The Mask of Cthulhu, 1958, reprinted, Ballantine, 1976.
• Lonesome Places, 1962.
• The Trail of Cthulhu, 1962, reprinted, Ballantine, 1976.
• Dwellers in Darkness, 1976.

• (With H. P. Lovercraft) The Lurker at the Threshold, 1945, reprinted, Gollancz, 1968.
• (With Lovecraft) The Survivor and Others, Ballantine, 1957.
• (Under pseudonym Stephen Grendon) Mr. George and Other Odd Persons, 1963.
• (With Mark Schorer) Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant Peoples, 1966.
• Collected Poems, 1937-1967, Candlelight Press, 1967.
• (With Lovecraft) The Shadow out of Time, and Other Tales of Horror, Gollancz, 1968.
• (With Lovercraft) The Shuttered Room, and Other Tales of Horror, Panther Books, 1970, Ballantine, 1973.
• (With Lovecraft) The Watchers out of Time, and Others, 1974.
• Harrigan's File, 1975.
• An August Derleth Reader, edited with an introduction by Jim Stephens, Prairie Oak Press (Madison, WI), 1992.
• Return to Derleth: Selected Essays, edited by James P. Roberts, White Hawk Press (Madison, WI), 1993.
• Country Matters, collected and introduced by Peter Ruber, Hawk and Whippoorwill (Shelburne, Ontario), 1996.
• Return to Sac Prairie, collected and introduced by Peter Ruber, Hawk & Whippoorwill, 1996.
• In a Quiet Graveyard: Poems of the Sac Prairie People, collected and introduced by Peter Ruber and George A. Vanderburgh, Hawk and Whippoorwill (Sauk City, WI), 1997.
• In Lovecraft's Shadow: The Cthulhu Mythos Stories of August Derleth, collected with introduction and notes by Joseph Wrzos, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box (Shelburne, Ontario), 1998.
• The Eleanor Poems and Other Sac Prairie Poetry, illustrated by Rodger Gerberding, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box (Shelburne, Ontario), 2002.

• (With Raymond E. F. Larsson) Poetry out of Wisconsin, Henry Harrison, 1937.
• Sleep No More, Farrar Rinehart, 1944.
• Who Knocks?, Rinehart, 1946.
• The Night Side, Rinehart, 1947.
• Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre, Arkham, 1947, reprinted, Books for Libraries, 1969.
• 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, 1952.
• Rendezvous in a Landscape, Fine Editions Press, 1952.
• Worlds of Tomorrow, 1953.
• Time to Come, Farrar, Straus, 1954.
• Portals of Tomorrow, Rinehart, 1954.
• Fire and Sleet and Candlelight, Arkham, 1961.
• Dark Mind, Dark Heart, Arkham, 1962.
• When Evil Wakes, Souvenir Press, 1963, reprinted, Sphere Books, 1977.
• New Worlds for Old, Four Square Books, 1963.
• Over the Edge, Arkham, 1964.
• (And author of introduction) A Wisconsin Harvest, Stanton Lee, 1966.
• Travellers by Night, Arkham, 1967.
• Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Arkham, 1969.
• New Poetry out of Wisconsin, Stanton Lee, 1969.
• Dark Things, Arkham, 1971.
• New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow: The Last Science Fiction Anthology, introduction and biographical notes by Joseph Wrzos, Arkham House (Sauk City, WI), 1998.

• (With Donald Wandrei) Beyond the Wall of Sleep, 1943.
• Something about Cats, and Other Pieces, 1949, reprinted, Books for Libraries, 1971.
• Best Supernatural Stories, World Publishing, 1950.
• (And author of introduction) The Haunter of the Dark, And Other Tales of Horror, Gollancz, 1951, reprinted, 1977.
• Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity, 1963.
• (And author of introduction) Dragon and Other Macabre Tales, 1965.
• Selected Letters, 1965-76, Volume I: (with D. Wandrei) 1911-1924, Volume II: (with Wandrei) 1925-1929, Volume III: (with Wandrei) 1929-1931, Volume IV: (with J. Turner) 1932-1934, Volume V: (with Turner) 1934-1937; The Tomb and Other Tales, Panther, 1969, Beagle Books, 1970.
• Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (two volumes), 1969.
• Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, with texts edited by S.T. Joshi and an introduction by T.E.D. Klein, Arkham, 1987.

• "Psyche, a Sequence of Love Lyrics," 1960, and "Sugar Bush by Moonlight, and Other Poems of Man and Nature," 1962 (both issued by Cuca Records, Sauk City, WI).

Contributor to more than five hundred magazines and newspapers, including Atlantic Monthly, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, New Yorker, Saturday Review, Redbook, and Daily Express (London). Editor, Hawk and Whippoorwill (poetry review), 1960-64; contributing editor, Outdoors.