Over The Edge, Stories to Freeze Your Blood, edited by August derleth, Published by Arrow, 1976. Very Good +, pages fresh and clean, no names in book or other writing, slight shelf wear, an excellent copy. 18 horror stories by some of the greats of the genre. Contact me if you would like a complete list of titles and authors.

Over the edge

Derleth, August William

Arkham House

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Arrow Books

Every state is fiercely proud of its cultural traditions, native products and favourite sons, and Wisconsin is no exception. Among the state's literary assets is August Derleth, the author of more than 150 books, most celebrating the Midwest and its people. "Walden West", reissued here for the first time since its original publication in 1961, is considered by many to be Derleth's masterwork. Derleth was a chronicler whose ear was close to the northern ground. In his Sac Prairie Saga, of which "Walden West" is the crowning volume, he captures the essences of midwestern village life with his distinctive combination of narrative and prose-poetry. The book is a series of anecdotes, meditations, character sketches, evocations of the landscape, and celebrations of its human and animal life. In sections such as "The Choir of Frogs" and "Oh, the Smell of the Grass" and "Mrs Opal Kralz" we meet, in all their small-town particularity, rich symbols of America's rural origins and experience. In other sections - "The Voices of the Wind Are Endless in Their Variety" and "If There is One Winter Voice Informed with Wildness" - we are treated to the music of the land. And in others still - "Millie Pohlman, "Old Mrs Block", "The Buchenau Women" - we sample the inimitable melody the people bring to their places. Derleth himself called "Walden West", "an exposition on three related themes: on the persistence of memory; on the sounds and odours of the country: of Thoreau - the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation". But one also comes away from these pages with a sense of the comedy and lyricism of the American rural experience, of the rootedness of its people to their land, and of the miraculous, teeming variety of the land itself.

Walden West

Literature & Fiction

United States

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Beginning with "The Return of Hastur," which Derleth completed posthumously from H.P. Lovecraft's notes, these stories masterfully expand the horrific cycle of the Cthulhu mythos and its monstrous pantheon. Original.

The Mask of Cthulhu

Genre Fiction

Carroll & Graf Pub.

No one but August Derleth could continue the Cthulhu Mythos cycle after the death of its creator, his friend H.P. Lovecraft. In a comprehensive fusion of Lovecraft's fearful myth-pattern, Dr. Laban Shrewsbury pursues his arcane investigations into the unspeakable secrets of the Ancient Ones to the drowned city of R'lyeh, where the ancient god Cthulhu waits dreaming.

The Trail of Cthulhu

Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (Granger Index Reprint Series)

Poetry

Ayer Co. Pub

Writing Fiction.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Praeger

By August Derleth, with an Introduction by Allen J. Hubin. No ISBN. This...is the sixth and last major collection of the Pontine series. However much the reader may regret bidding goodbye to a cherished friend of more than forty years' constance, the ten tales presented here make for a fine and fitting exit.

Chronicles of Solar Pons

Arkham House Pub

The Solar Pons Omnibus is a collection of detective fiction stories by author August Derleth. The set collects all of the Solar Pons stories of August Derleth. The stories are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are arranged by their internal chronology, rather than by the date of their release. The stories had earlier appeared under the Arkham House imprint of Mycroft & Moran.This is a two volume slipcase edition that was issued without dust jackets.

The Solar Pons omnibus

From the front flap of this 405 page book: "The story themes set forth by H.P. Lovecraft and developed by August Derleth, have been collected into one omnibus of post-mortem collaborations belonging virtually to every period of Lovecraft's work. The tales follow a common pattern. A lineal descendent of the Whateleys, the Marshes, or the Bishops - or a similarly molded character of problematical nature - settles among the rugged hills and dark forests of his New England ancestry or in the neighborhood of a deteriorated coastal town. Occasionally, a nocturnal habitue of the byways and alleys of the Rhode Island capital succeeds the customary figure. Ancient rites and black magic still abet the forces of evil. The vestigial aura of malignancy pervading the landscape and the concomitant pipping of the frogs and whippoorwills give substance to the strange half-whispered tales among the old families. Inevitably the protagonist's curiosity and subsequent investigations prove his downfall - but, fortunately, not before the hasty scrawls of the perennial manuscript have produced those pleasant nostalgic shudders. The resemblances, the, are obvious. But Derleth, cleverly and entertainingly, maintains interest and suspense, rearranging with novel twists and varying distortion the fundamental elements. For devotees of the Gothic tradition, this collection is a feast of good reading, incurring a debt of gratitude to August Derleth for preserving the essence of that eldritch world created by H.P. Lovecraft."

Watchers Out of Time and Others

Lovecraft., H.P

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Over the edge

Walden West

The Mask of Cthulhu

The Trail of Cthulhu

Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (Granger Index Reprint Series)

Writing Fiction.

Chronicles of Solar Pons

The Solar Pons omnibus

The Solar Pons omnibus

Watchers Out of Time and Others