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Derleth
gets entries in the standard dictionaries and guides.
His supernatural horror fiction is much more fully
covered in the standard books on the subject:
The
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. John Clute
& Peter Nicholls
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy,
ed. John Clute & John Grant
The Penguin
Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, ed.
Jack Sullivan
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
and Fantasy Volume I, Donald H Tuck
Although
published in 1983, the indispensable standard bibliography
is still:
August
Derleth: a Bibliography, by Alison M Wilson
Derleth's
own 100 Books by August Derleth is a detailed
listing up to 1962
Biographical
information can be found in:
The
August Derleth Society's Remembering Derleth,
and Who Was August Derleth? by Kay
Price. Derleth: Hawk...and Dove is a recent
controversial unauthorised biography by Dorothy
M Grobe Litersky
The
Sac Prairie Saga is examined in detail in The
Derleth Saga by Evelyn M Schroth
Return
to Derleth Vols 1 & 2 ed. James Roberts,
and August Harvest, ed. Ely M Liebow are
excellent collections of essays on most aspects
of Derleth's work
The
August Derleth Society website can be accessed through
the Walden East links page
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