August Derleth (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
A tremendously prolific writer, August Derleth produced an amazing number of novels,
poems, and essays, in addition to short fiction. Included among these are mystery and horror tales,
children’s books, and histories. He wrote a series of novels, nonfiction, and poetry called
the Sac Prairie Saga, five books in his Wisconsin Saga, ten novels in the Judge Peck mystery series
(1934-1953), biographies of Henry David Thoreau,
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