H.P. Lovecraft
Something About Cats and Other Pieces.
Collected by August Derleth and published in 1949 under Arkham House.

I wanna have that book, but sadly that's way expensive. Fine... someday...

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"Mrs. Manifold" by Stephen Grendon
( #AugustDerleth )

~She could not abide the smell of wine.~

"She sat looking at me, humming a queer little tune, which I came to recognize later when she sang it: a sea-shanty. In that tremendous bulk, only her eyes seemed to move: small black, with short-lashed eyelids; there was no evidence that she breathed, no tremor disturbed her flesh, clad in a dress of black satin, which, despite her great mass, was frilled and ruffled like a child's frock and looked almost obscene."

A classic tale of ghostly revenge unfolds as the narrator describes his job as a desk clerk at The Sailor's Rest, a shabby, run down, hole in the corner inn. A place where the fog can walk in with a guest, or is it a ghost?

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This month on Her Letters to August Derleth we look at his correspondent Christine Campbell Thomson, the British editor and literary agent behind the Not at Night series.

https://deepcuts.blog/2025/03/29/her-letters-to-august-derleth-christine-campbell-thomson/

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August Derleth's Solar Pons stories are among the very few Sherlock Holmes pastiches actually worth reading. Well-crafted and very entertaining and they feel Sherlockian. Derleth doesn’t make the mistake of trying for a tongue-in-cheek flavour.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2015/03/august-derleths-return-of-solar-pons.html

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#FinlayFriday meets #MerMay part 2

Virgil Finlay cover painting for Fantastic Universe, July, 1957, which I guess is kinda-sorta illustrating August Derleth's Cthulhu Mythos story which was later changed to "The Seal of R'lyeh." I don't remember any mirror-obsessed mermaids from that but part of it does take place in the sea!

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