Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

August Derleth identifies this mysterious entity with Hastur ( though Hastur appears in the same " Whisperer in Darkness " list with the Magnum Innominandum ), while Robert M. Price equates him with Yog-Sothoth -- though he also suggests that Shub-Niggurath's mate is implicitly the snake god Yig.

Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.

Occasionally the magazine would publish Lovecraftian pastiches presented as pieces of " lost " Lovecraft completed by his self-appointed literary executor August Derleth, who also wrote fiction for the magazine under his own name.

Long was also part of the loosely associated " Lovecraft Circle " of fantasy writers ( along with Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Clark Ashton Smith, C. M. Eddy, Jr., and Donald Wandrei ) who corresponded regularly with each other and influenced and critiqued each other's works.

Forthcoming works ( some of which are discussed on Joshi's blog at his official website-see below ) also include Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction ( to be published in two volumes, 2011 & 2012 by PS Publishing ); Encyclopedia of the Vampire ( Greenwood Press ); Horror Fiction Index ; a three-volume edition of the letters of Ambrose Bierce ; bibliographies of William Hope Hodgson ( with Sam Gafford and Mike Ashley ) and of Clark Ashton Smith ; The White People and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Machen ( for Penguin Classics ); Essential Writings by Ambrose Bierce ( Library of America, forthcoming 2011 ); a comprehensive bibliography of Ray Bradbury ( with Jon Eller ); a revised / updated edition of the Ramsey Campbell bibliography The Core of Ramsey Campbell ; and an edition of the correspondence between Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth.

She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award ( also known as the August Derleth Award ), for her book Death's Master ( 1980 ).

It cannot be said, however, that Solar Pons is merely Sherlock Holmes with the name changed, for the important reason that Sherlock Holmes also exists in Pons ' world: Pons and Parker are aware of the famous detective and hold him in high regard, but whereas Holmes ' adventures took place primarily in the 1880s and 1890s, Pons and Parker live in the 1920s and 1930s ( when Derleth began writing the Pons stories.

) Pons fans also regard Derleth as having given Pons his own distinctly different personality, far less melancholy and brooding than Holmes '.

Copper also edited the Pons stories of August Derleth for Arkham House under the title The Solar Pons Omnibus ( 2 vols, 1982 ) but made extensive edits in the stories.

The later omnibus also discarded Copper's chronological arrangement in favor of the order in which the stories had appeared in the original Derleth volumes.

In 2008, the gazette also published the first Pons story not by Derleth or Copper, entitled Solar Pons's War of the Worlds.

* August Derleth also used the deep ones in the short story " Innsmouth Clay ", which he completed from Lovecraft's notes.

The second stage was guided by August Derleth who, in addition to publishing Lovecraft's stories after his death, attempted to categorize and expand the Mythos.

Writer Richard L. Tierney later applied the term " Derleth Mythos " to distinguish between Lovecraft's works and Derleth's later stories.

— August Derleth, " The Cthulhu Mythos "

In fact, this very story, along with some hints from " The Shadow over Innsmouth ", provides the key to the origin of the ' Derleth Mythos '.

Derleth expanded the boundaries of the Mythos by including any passing reference to another author's story elements by Lovecraft as part of the genre: just as Lovecraft made passing reference to Clark Ashton Smith's Book of Eibon, Derleth in turn added Smith's Ubbo-Sathla to the Mythos.

The term " Cthulhu Mythos " was coined by Lovecraft's correspondent and fellow author, August Derleth, after Lovecraft's death ; Lovecraft jocularly referred to his artificial mythology as " Yog-Sothothery ".

Writer August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft and co-creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, placed R ' lyeh at.

Most of her development as a literary figure was carried out by other Mythos authors, including August Derleth, Robert Bloch and Ramsey Campbell.

Cthugha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction, the creation of August Derleth.

* The star Celaeno features as a location in the Cthulhu Mythos stories of August Derleth.

In the writings of Derleth and a few other latter-day Cthulhu Mythos authors, the King in Yellow is an Avatar of Hastur, so named because of his appearance as a thin, floating man covered in tattered yellow robes.

In the latter-day Cthulhu Mythos, developed by August Derleth and other Lovecraft imitators, the Yellow Sign is the sign of Hastur and is used by members of his cult to identify one another.

More recently, however, scholars have come to accept that Derleth ’ s most fundamental innovation was the assignment of these beings to a single mythological pantheon as part of the overarching Cthulhu Mythos.

This description closely matches the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos as interpreted by August Derleth.

Thereafter, these texts and others appear in the works of numerous other Mythos authors ( who themselves added their own grimoires to the literary arcana ), including August Derleth, Lin Carter, Brian Lumley, and Ramsey Campbell.

In his short story " The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders " ( 1950 ), August Derleth includes De Vermis Mysteriis among a group of Cthulhu Mythos volumes discovered in a book catalog by his detective character Solar Pons -- though in the context of the story, all the books turn out to be fictional.

August Derleth, Lovecraft's friend and literary executor, discouraged other Cthulhu Mythos writers from setting their stories in Lovecraft's New England.

His more famous friends and collaborators include Robert Bloch, author of Psycho ; Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian ; and August Derleth, who codified and added to the Cthulhu Mythos.

Battered Silicon Dispatch Box has issued in 2009 four new volumes of stories by August Derleth under a joint imprint with Arkham House which constitute Arkham House's only output since 2006.

Derleth matched earth against fire and air against water, which is inconsistent with the classical elements pairings.

In the science fiction anthology Far Boundaries ( 1951 ), the editor August Derleth identifies the short story " Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism ", written for the Dublin Literary Magazine by an anonymous author in 1838, as a very early time travel story.

* Over the Edge ( anthology ), edited by August Derleth

Volumes already issued include Lovecraft's letters to Rheinhart Kleiner, Alfred Galpin, August Derleth ( 2 volumes ), Robert E. Howard ( 2 volumes ) and James F. Morton.

( 1963 ), based on the personal enthusiasm of August Derleth.

* In the science fiction anthology Far Boundaries ( 1951 ), the editor August Derleth identifies the short story Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism, written for the Dublin University Magazine by an anonymous author in 1838, as a very early time travel story.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Some influence was direct, as he was a friend, inspiration, and correspondent to many of his contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber.

His first collection of short stories, Dark Carnival, was published in 1947 by Arkham House, a small press in Sauk City, Wisconsin, owned by writer August Derleth.

Lovecraft never made a connection between Hastur and " Him Who Is Not to Be Named "; Derleth was the one to do so.

Jacobi met August Derleth in January 1931 when Derleth was visiting Minneapolis to see Donald Wandrei.

The town was used as a setting by August Derleth in his posthumous " collaborations " with Lovecraft, notably in " The Shuttered Room " ( 1959 ).

Carcosa was a specialty publishing firm formed by David Drake, Karl Edward Wagner, and Jim Groce who were concerned that Arkham House would cease publication after the death of its founder, August Derleth.

Conan Doyle graciously declined the offer, but Derleth, despite having never been to London, set about finding a name that was syllabically reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, and wrote his first set of pastiches.

Lovecraft was quite critical of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, writing to August Derleth that the story " has all the defects I deplore — especially in point of style, where hackneyed phrases & rhythms have crept in despite all precautions .... No — I don't intend to offer ' The Shadow over Innsmouth ' for publication, for it would stand no chance of acceptance.

The story was rejected by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright when Derleth surreptitiously submitted it for publication in 1933.

It was originated either by Lovecraft himself or by his protégé August Derleth, who first published many of Lovecraft's works.

The Shuttered Room was based on an August Derleth ' posthumous collaboration ' with Lovecraft.