8) "Beyond the Threshold" (1941) by August Derleth
Tony Alwyn (of the Innsmouth Alwyns) is called to the ancestral house in Wisconsin by cousin Frolin. Their grandfather Josiah has disappeared. Research reveals an opening hidden in the house. The grandfather was taken when he crossed the threshold.
Tony Alwyn (of the Innsmouth Alwyns) is called to the ancestral house in Wisconsin by cousin Frolin. Their grandfather Josiah has disappeared. Research reveals an opening hidden in the house. The grandfather was taken when he crossed the threshold.
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
8) "Beyond the Threshold" (1941) by August Derleth
Tony Alwyn (of the Innsmouth Alwyns) is called to the ancestral house in Wisconsin by cousin Frolin. Their grandfather Josiah has disappeared. Research reveals an opening hidden in the house. The grandfather was taken when he crossed the threshold.
Tony Alwyn (of the Innsmouth Alwyns) is called to the ancestral house in Wisconsin by cousin Frolin. Their grandfather Josiah has disappeared. Research reveals an opening hidden in the house. The grandfather was taken when he crossed the threshold.
22) "The Return of Hastur" (1939) by August Derleth
In Arkham, as he dies, Amos Tuttle warns his attorney Haddon to follow his will to the letter to destroy certain Mythos books and the house. Tuttle's heir Paul gets the lawyer not to. This is a mistake, as Paul must fulfill Amos' debt to Hastur.
In Arkham, as he dies, Amos Tuttle warns his attorney Haddon to follow his will to the letter to destroy certain Mythos books and the house. Tuttle's heir Paul gets the lawyer not to. This is a mistake, as Paul must fulfill Amos' debt to Hastur.
December 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
22) "The Return of Hastur" (1939) by August Derleth
In Arkham, as he dies, Amos Tuttle warns his attorney Haddon to follow his will to the letter to destroy certain Mythos books and the house. Tuttle's heir Paul gets the lawyer not to. This is a mistake, as Paul must fulfill Amos' debt to Hastur.
In Arkham, as he dies, Amos Tuttle warns his attorney Haddon to follow his will to the letter to destroy certain Mythos books and the house. Tuttle's heir Paul gets the lawyer not to. This is a mistake, as Paul must fulfill Amos' debt to Hastur.
7) "The Dweller in Darkness" (1944) by August Derleth
Strange things happen at Rick's Lake, in rural Wisconsin. The disappearance of Prof. Upton Gardner leads Jake to Rick's Lake; he consults the Necronomicon & some Arkham House volumes, & summons Cthugha, a fire elemental, to defeat Nyarlathotep.
Strange things happen at Rick's Lake, in rural Wisconsin. The disappearance of Prof. Upton Gardner leads Jake to Rick's Lake; he consults the Necronomicon & some Arkham House volumes, & summons Cthugha, a fire elemental, to defeat Nyarlathotep.
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
7) "The Dweller in Darkness" (1944) by August Derleth
Strange things happen at Rick's Lake, in rural Wisconsin. The disappearance of Prof. Upton Gardner leads Jake to Rick's Lake; he consults the Necronomicon & some Arkham House volumes, & summons Cthugha, a fire elemental, to defeat Nyarlathotep.
Strange things happen at Rick's Lake, in rural Wisconsin. The disappearance of Prof. Upton Gardner leads Jake to Rick's Lake; he consults the Necronomicon & some Arkham House volumes, & summons Cthugha, a fire elemental, to defeat Nyarlathotep.
88) “The Murky Glass” (1957) as by August Derleth & H. P. Lovecraft
Fred Akeley inherits his cousin Wilbur's house in Vermont. There is an odd glass window which serves as portal to other worlds. Things did not go well for Wilbur, and but Fred manages to survive.
Fred Akeley inherits his cousin Wilbur's house in Vermont. There is an odd glass window which serves as portal to other worlds. Things did not go well for Wilbur, and but Fred manages to survive.
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
88) “The Murky Glass” (1957) as by August Derleth & H. P. Lovecraft
Fred Akeley inherits his cousin Wilbur's house in Vermont. There is an odd glass window which serves as portal to other worlds. Things did not go well for Wilbur, and but Fred manages to survive.
Fred Akeley inherits his cousin Wilbur's house in Vermont. There is an odd glass window which serves as portal to other worlds. Things did not go well for Wilbur, and but Fred manages to survive.
49) "The Black Island" (1952) by August Derleth
Dr. Laban Shrewsbury assembles his team and completes his plan: to drop a nuclear weapon on R'lyeh as it rises. Except not everyone is quite who they appear to be, and Cthulhu probably isn't gone for good.
Dr. Laban Shrewsbury assembles his team and completes his plan: to drop a nuclear weapon on R'lyeh as it rises. Except not everyone is quite who they appear to be, and Cthulhu probably isn't gone for good.
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
49) "The Black Island" (1952) by August Derleth
Dr. Laban Shrewsbury assembles his team and completes his plan: to drop a nuclear weapon on R'lyeh as it rises. Except not everyone is quite who they appear to be, and Cthulhu probably isn't gone for good.
Dr. Laban Shrewsbury assembles his team and completes his plan: to drop a nuclear weapon on R'lyeh as it rises. Except not everyone is quite who they appear to be, and Cthulhu probably isn't gone for good.
Fairly sure this is the Hog reference I found, from the intro to Nightshade's Collected Fiction of WHH. As to the Derleth invention theory, Darrell Schweitzer claimed to have begun that one himself as a deliberate frivolous literary confection.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Fairly sure this is the Hog reference I found, from the intro to Nightshade's Collected Fiction of WHH. As to the Derleth invention theory, Darrell Schweitzer claimed to have begun that one himself as a deliberate frivolous literary confection.
Poe: no no no it's ok
Poe: he's just a little bit racist
Iker:
Iker: what
August Derleth: he's only as racist as the average man of his day
Iker: this is not assuaging me
Poe: he's just a little bit racist
Iker:
Iker: what
August Derleth: he's only as racist as the average man of his day
Iker: this is not assuaging me
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Poe: no no no it's ok
Poe: he's just a little bit racist
Iker:
Iker: what
August Derleth: he's only as racist as the average man of his day
Iker: this is not assuaging me
Poe: he's just a little bit racist
Iker:
Iker: what
August Derleth: he's only as racist as the average man of his day
Iker: this is not assuaging me
29.1: He wrote to August Derleth that they were “18 or 20 closely typed pages each time” (ES 2.523), remarked to Donald Wandrei how he received “a 22-page (closely typed) argumentative epistle from Two-Gun Bob, the Terror of the Plains” (MTS 37 338),
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
29.1: He wrote to August Derleth that they were “18 or 20 closely typed pages each time” (ES 2.523), remarked to Donald Wandrei how he received “a 22-page (closely typed) argumentative epistle from Two-Gun Bob, the Terror of the Plains” (MTS 37 338),
68: Litersky’s biography depicts Derleth as a closeted bisexual who engaged in multiple long-term relationships with both men and women, including some partners who were of high-school age at the beginning of the relationship.
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
68: Litersky’s biography depicts Derleth as a closeted bisexual who engaged in multiple long-term relationships with both men and women, including some partners who were of high-school age at the beginning of the relationship.
August Derleth un sábado morni controlando la tramada.
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
August Derleth un sábado morni controlando la tramada.
"I’ve never bothered to read “Ulysses” & never intend to—although young people tell me that it’s almost a literary bible in the new generation."
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, 3 Jun 1927
While Lovecraft never read the whole of James Joyce's ULYSSES (1922), he did read extracts.
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, 3 Jun 1927
While Lovecraft never read the whole of James Joyce's ULYSSES (1922), he did read extracts.
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"I’ve never bothered to read “Ulysses” & never intend to—although young people tell me that it’s almost a literary bible in the new generation."
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, 3 Jun 1927
While Lovecraft never read the whole of James Joyce's ULYSSES (1922), he did read extracts.
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, 3 Jun 1927
While Lovecraft never read the whole of James Joyce's ULYSSES (1922), he did read extracts.
Book catalogue project, day 480: H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium (n.d. (1963), n.p.) by Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Sam Russell, Arthur Jean Cox, Leland Sapiro, and August Derleth. Chapbook. Clean pages, some wear.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Book catalogue project, day 480: H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium (n.d. (1963), n.p.) by Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Sam Russell, Arthur Jean Cox, Leland Sapiro, and August Derleth. Chapbook. Clean pages, some wear.
Or if you're explicitly writing a story within the Lovecraft-Derleth-Chambers-Machen continuity.
Most name drops of the kind I'm complaining about aren't doing either of those things though.
Most name drops of the kind I'm complaining about aren't doing either of those things though.
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Or if you're explicitly writing a story within the Lovecraft-Derleth-Chambers-Machen continuity.
Most name drops of the kind I'm complaining about aren't doing either of those things though.
Most name drops of the kind I'm complaining about aren't doing either of those things though.
Masterton took the character Misquamacus from THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD (1945), a novel written by August Derleth around some scraps by H. P. Lovecraft. THE MANITOU became so successful it launched both a film and a series of further novels like this one.
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Masterton took the character Misquamacus from THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD (1945), a novel written by August Derleth around some scraps by H. P. Lovecraft. THE MANITOU became so successful it launched both a film and a series of further novels like this one.
![[371] Farnsworth Wright to August Derleth, 13 July 1931, WHS
THE HORROR FROM THE LAKE is obviously inspired by Long’s story,
THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS, and some of the early scenes in your
story parallel Long’s. This in itself would be sufficient objection to bar the
10 story from Weird Tales. Also, your story does not have the distinction of style
which is one of the charms of Long’s story.2
But a more serious objection to this story is the fact that you have lifted
whole phrases from Lovecraft’s works, as for instance: “the frightful Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred,” “the sunken kingdom of R’lyeh,”
15 “the accursed spawn of Cthulhu,” “the frozen and shunned Plateau of Leng,”
etc. Also you have taken the legends of Cthulhu and the Ancient Ones directly out of Lovecraft. This is unfair to Lovecraft. Robert Louis Stevenson once
said that in the days of his apprenticeship to the writing craft he “had played
the sedulous ape” to different authors in turn. But you have not merely aped
20 Lovecraft in this story—you have even lifted his wording. My admiration for
Lovecraft’s writing amounts almost to idolatry, and I cannot allow such imitation in Weird Tales. It is all right to use the legends as Howard and Smith
have used them—a mere allusion to them; but your usage oversteps the
bounds of propriety.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:utdci2ewhpqzfl6uukt4kdkc/bafkreicad2tzy2xhs25mikionxlu2t2uxeijtq6offat7mqvjvehvvg4sa@jpeg)
« Cthulhu Mythos », 1974
by Bruce Pennington (British artist, born 1944)
Cover illustration for "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos" Vol. 1, August Derleth Ed.
Panther, 1975
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #BrucePennington #HPLovecraft #Cthulhu #CthulhuMyhtos
by Bruce Pennington (British artist, born 1944)
Cover illustration for "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos" Vol. 1, August Derleth Ed.
Panther, 1975
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #BrucePennington #HPLovecraft #Cthulhu #CthulhuMyhtos
November 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
« Cthulhu Mythos », 1974
by Bruce Pennington (British artist, born 1944)
Cover illustration for "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos" Vol. 1, August Derleth Ed.
Panther, 1975
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #BrucePennington #HPLovecraft #Cthulhu #CthulhuMyhtos
by Bruce Pennington (British artist, born 1944)
Cover illustration for "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos" Vol. 1, August Derleth Ed.
Panther, 1975
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #BrucePennington #HPLovecraft #Cthulhu #CthulhuMyhtos
"The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth, read by Tony Walker
It is my belief that Stephen King nabbed the concept for IT from this story
youtu.be/heci1aU8poU?...
It is my belief that Stephen King nabbed the concept for IT from this story
youtu.be/heci1aU8poU?...
The Lonesome Place by August Derleth #audiobook
YouTube video by Classic Ghost Stories Podcast - Tony Walker
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth, read by Tony Walker
It is my belief that Stephen King nabbed the concept for IT from this story
youtu.be/heci1aU8poU?...
It is my belief that Stephen King nabbed the concept for IT from this story
youtu.be/heci1aU8poU?...
Derleth: in real life, howard was actually NOT racist against Italians!
Derleth: how about you all read Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein for once
Derleth: how about you all read Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein for once
October 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Derleth: in real life, howard was actually NOT racist against Italians!
Derleth: how about you all read Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein for once
Derleth: how about you all read Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein for once
Lovecraft: [sweats] don't read it!
Lovecraft: it makes you go crazy if you look at it!
Poe: you say that about everything, howard
Poe: you say this about Italians
August Derleth: that's a half truth!
Lovecraft: it makes you go crazy if you look at it!
Poe: you say that about everything, howard
Poe: you say this about Italians
August Derleth: that's a half truth!
October 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lovecraft: [sweats] don't read it!
Lovecraft: it makes you go crazy if you look at it!
Poe: you say that about everything, howard
Poe: you say this about Italians
August Derleth: that's a half truth!
Lovecraft: it makes you go crazy if you look at it!
Poe: you say that about everything, howard
Poe: you say this about Italians
August Derleth: that's a half truth!
The idea was also partially fostered by August Derleth, who was attempting to preserve/repair Lovecraft's image after Lovecraft's wife's memoir was published in the late 1940s, emphasizing Lovecraft's racism and antisemitism. The idea has unfortunately stuck around in the internet.
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The idea was also partially fostered by August Derleth, who was attempting to preserve/repair Lovecraft's image after Lovecraft's wife's memoir was published in the late 1940s, emphasizing Lovecraft's racism and antisemitism. The idea has unfortunately stuck around in the internet.
"Yes—it is amusing to speculate on what future psychologists would make of one’s stories."
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, Apr 1933, ES2.560
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, Apr 1933, ES2.560
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Yes—it is amusing to speculate on what future psychologists would make of one’s stories."
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, Apr 1933, ES2.560
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, Apr 1933, ES2.560
"Also paid a dollar for Scott’s “Demonology & Witchcraft”, which I’ve wanted for years. My guests led me into bookshops, & the temptation was too great!"
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, 4 Aug 1927, ES1.102
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, 4 Aug 1927, ES1.102
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Also paid a dollar for Scott’s “Demonology & Witchcraft”, which I’ve wanted for years. My guests led me into bookshops, & the temptation was too great!"
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, 4 Aug 1927, ES1.102
—H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, 4 Aug 1927, ES1.102
Artist Don Ivan Punchatz sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/puncha... died on this day, so here are some examples of his book cover artwork, 1974-1977. 1st for August Derleth 'Night's Yawning Peal'; 2 John Brunner 'Times Without Number'; 3 Carol & Frederik Pohl 'Science Fiction: The Great Years, Volume II':
October 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Artist Don Ivan Punchatz sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/puncha... died on this day, so here are some examples of his book cover artwork, 1974-1977. 1st for August Derleth 'Night's Yawning Peal'; 2 John Brunner 'Times Without Number'; 3 Carol & Frederik Pohl 'Science Fiction: The Great Years, Volume II':
August Derleth, THE MASK OF CTHULHU (Beagle Boxer Horror, 1971), with cover art by Victor Valla.
October 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
August Derleth, THE MASK OF CTHULHU (Beagle Boxer Horror, 1971), with cover art by Victor Valla.
August Derleth: 1) THE MASK OF CTHULHU (Arkham House, 1958), and 2) THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU (Arkham House, 1962). Cover art by Richard Taylor.
October 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
August Derleth: 1) THE MASK OF CTHULHU (Arkham House, 1958), and 2) THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU (Arkham House, 1962). Cover art by Richard Taylor.