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At the age of 16, he sold his first story to Weird Tales magazine. Derleth wrote all throughout his four years at the University of Wisconsin and received a B.A. in 1930. During this time he served briefly as editor of Mystic Magazine .
In the mid-1930s he organised a Ranger's Club for young people, served as clerk and president of the local Board of Education , served as a parole officer, organised a local Men’s Club and a parent-teacher association. He also lectured in American Regional Literature at the University of Wisconsin.
A contemporary and friend of H. P. Lovecraft (Lovecraft's references to "le Comte d'Erlette" is an homage to Derleth), after Lovecraft's death he took a number of that author's unfinished stories and rewrote or finished them for publication in Weird Tales and later in book form. In the process, he invented the term Cthulhu Mythos to describe the invented mythology that seemed to lay behind much of Lovecraft's fiction. Derleth codified the Mythos to bring it more in line with his own Christian conception of the battle between good and evil and, as other authors had done before him, added new gods and creatures to the stories.
When Lovecraft died in 1937, Derleth and Donald Wandrei put together a collection of that author's storiesThe short story is a form of narrative prose writing that is characterised by the number of words contained therein. Determining the actual length of a short story is problematic. A classic definition of a short story's length is that it must be able to b and tried to get them published. With existing publishers showing little interest, they founded Arkham HouseArkham House is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded by August Derleth. Arkham House published the first hardback collections of H. Lovecraft's work. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. The company' in 1939 to do it themselves. The name of the company comes from Lovecraft's fictional town of ArkhamArkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, a couple of hours distance from Boston, Massachusetts. Lovecraft set many of his stories there and Cthulhu Mythos writers have continued to feature the town in stories written since his death. Arkham is the hom, MassachusettsMassachusetts is a state of the United States of America, part of the New England region. postal abbreviation is MA and its traditional abbreviation is Mass . It is properly called the Commonwealth of Massachusetts although there is no legal distinction b, which featured in many of his stories.
In 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26 Arkham House published The Outsider and Others , a huge collection that contained most of Lovecraft's short stories then known to exist. Derleth and Wandrei soon decided to expand Arkham House and began a regular publishing schedule after its second book, Someone in the Dark in 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St, a collection of some of Derleth's own horror stories .
In 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St he became literary editor of The Capital Times newspaper in MadisonMadison is the capital of Wisconsin, a state of the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, it has a population of 208,054. It is the county seat of Dane County. The city completely surrounds the smaller Town of Madison. The University of Wiscons, a post he held until his resignation in 1960Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23.
Derleth was married April 6, 1953 to Sandra Evelyn Winters, and they were divorced six years later in 1959. He retained custody of their two children, April Rose and Walden William. In 1960, Derleth began editing and publishing a magazine called Hawk and Whippoorwill, dedicated to poems of man and nature.
He died on July 4, 1971 and is buried in St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Derleth wrote more than 150 short stories and more than 100 books during his lifetime. Included among that number were several novels about a British detective named Solar Pons, who was quite similar in many respects to Sherlock Holmes. Derleth, however, lacked the knowledge to make the details of those stories authentic, as he had never been to England. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Grendon, Kenyon Holmes and Tally Mason.
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