August Derleth in particular added to and expanded on Lovecraft's vision.

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

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.

— 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 also attempted to connect the deities of the Mythos to the four elements ( air, earth, fire, and water ), but was forced to adopt artistic license and create beings to represent certain elements ( air and fire ) to legitimise his system of classification.

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.

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.

Many of Smith's stories were published in six hardcover volumes by August Derleth under his Arkham House imprint.

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.

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.

In one adventure of Solar Pons -- the Sherlock Holmes pastiche created by August Derleth -- a Scottish nationalist very similar to Ian Hamilton, stole the Stone from Westminster in 1935.

* " The Dweller in Darkness " by August Derleth

Arkham House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, takes its name from this city as a tribute.

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.

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.

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.

This work is being issued by Arkham House co-published with the August Derleth Society.

* August Derleth editor – Travellers by Night

* August Derleth – 100 Books by August Derleth

Campbell sold various of his early stories to editors including August Derleth and Robert A. W.

She met a number of other science fiction enthusiasts, including Robert Bloch, Willy Ley, and August Derleth ; and claims that Harlan Ellison, " this bespectacled young man who had just sold his first short story ", " decided he liked me and proposed on the spot.

The society continues to produce a remarkable series of publications, including numbered chapbooks of works by William Hope Hodgson, Michael Moorcock, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Tremayne, August Derleth, and M. R. James.

The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications including the periodicals Dude, The Evening Standard, Lilliput, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Future, New Worlds, Startling Stories, Astounding, Fantasy, King's College Review, Satellite, Amazing Stories, London Evening News, Infinity Science Fiction and Ten Story Fantasy as well as the anthologies Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1 edited by Frederik Pohl and Time to Come edited by August Derleth.

In another passage, Derleth quotes a prophecy:

" The Shuttered Room " is another short story started by Lovecraft and finished by Derleth that involves the deep ones.

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

In the story, Professor Laban Shrewsbury ( a recurring Derleth character ) and his assistant at the time, Nayland Colum, discover Alhazred's burial site.

Many of his tales were published in anthologies edited by Derleth, and Arkham House published his first three short story collections.

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.

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.

" I have read Lovecraft's story ... and must confess that it fascinates me ," he wrote to Derleth.

August Derleth called The Shadow Over Innsmouth " a dark, brooding story, typical of Lovecraft at his best.

In issue 4 of the same series he drew an outstanding adaptation of the short story " The Drifting Snow " by August Derleth.

A 1948 Arkham House edition of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder edited by August Derleth added three stories: " The Haunted Jarvee ", published posthumously in The Premier Magazine in 1929 ; " The Hog ", published in Weird Tales in 1947 ; and " The Find ", a previously unpublished story.

* 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.