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.

At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the Massachusetts locales of Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them to English settings in and around the fictional Gloucestershire city of Brichester, near the River Severn, creating his own Severn Valley milieu for Lovecraftian horrors.

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.

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.

The Esoteric Order of Dagon ( meeting in what Derleth described as " a one-time Masonic hall " ) had three oaths which members had to take.

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.

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

Derleth is credited with creating the Elder Gods, and stated:

His astronomical telescope is now housed in the rooms of the August Derleth Society.

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.

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

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.

Derleth wrote in 1970, " he fact is that in no single year since its founding have the earnings of Arkham House met the expenses, so that it has been necessary for my personal earnings to shore up Arkham House finances.

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

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.

This is the name given to Yog-Sothoth in August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft's novel The Lurker at the Threshold.

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.

In the stories of August Derleth and a few others Carcosa is the residence of Hastur, identified as a Great Old One rather than a location.

Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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.

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

It is identified as Lloigor, created by the writers August Derleth and Mark Schorer in 1932.

The title Unaussprechlichen Kulten is due to August Derleth.

Price's dichotomy dictates the second stage commenced with August Derleth, the principal difference between Lovecraft and Derleth being the latter's use of hope and that the Cthulhu mythos essentially represented a struggle between good and evil.

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

He did, however, correspond regularly with other contemporary writers, such as Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth, people who became good friends of his, even though they never met in person.

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

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

Long reputedly ghost-wrote two, possibly three, of the Ellery Queen Junior novels ( see Ellery Queen ( house name ) ( mentioned in correspondence with August Derleth ) but unfortunately did not identify the three titles.

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.

* Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth ( 2 volumes ) ( with David E. Schultz, 2008 ).

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

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.

August Derleth later made alterations to the biography of Alhazred, such as redating his death to 731.

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.

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.

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.

" Derleth himself believed that Lovecraft wished for other authors to actively write about the myth-cycle as opposed to it being a discrete plot device.

In 1942, three years after August Derleth founded Arkham House for the purpose of preserving the work of H. P.

Derleth published five more volumes of Smith's prose and two of his verse, and at his death in 1971 had a large volume of Smith's poems in press.

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

* Haefele, John D. " Far from Time: Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Arkham House.

* 1909 – August Derleth, American writer ( d. 1971 )

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

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.