The Gable Window

August Derleth�s �Posthumous Collaborations� After Lovecraft�s death, August Derleth based a number of stories on fragments written by Lovecraft and published these as �posthumous collaborations� between Lovecraft and Derleth. Since then, these stories have been marketed as being by �H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth�, �H.P. Lovecraft with August Derleth�, or by H.P. Lovecraft alone. Some of the books that make this error include: The Lurker at the Threshold �(Arkham House, 1945; Beagle/Ballantine Books, 1971; Carroll & Graf, 1988) The Survivor and Others �(Arkham House, 1957; Ballantine, 1962) The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Terror �(Beagle/Ballantine Books, 1971) The Watchers Out of Time and Others �(Arkham House, 1974) The Watchers Out of Time �(Carroll & Graf, 1991; Del Rey, 2008) The following excerpt from S.T. Joshi�s�(http://www.hplovecraft.com/study/litcrit/hplcb.aspx) H.P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography �explains the matter further: ������These sixteen stories, listed as by �H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth,� were in fact written almost entirely by Derleth. In most cases, the stories were based on one or more ideas noted in Lovecraft�s� Commonplace Book ; for example, �The Fisherman of Falcon Point� was based on this entry: �Fisherman casts his net into the sea by moonlight�what he finds.� Plotting, description, dialogue, characterization, and other elements were entirely by Derleth. As such they cannot be classified as works by Lovecraft. ������In some instances Derleth incorporated actual prose passages by Lovecraft into his stories.� The Lurker at the Threshold �(a 50,000-word novel) contains about 1,200 words by Lovecraft, most of it taken from a fragment entitled �Of Evill Sorceries Done in New England� (see B-i-42), the balance from a fragment now titled �The Rose Window� (see B-ii-322). �The Survivor� was based on a comparatively lengthy plot sketch plus random notes for the story jotted down by Lovecraft in 1934. A descriptive passage of �The Lamp of Alhazred� was based on a portion of a letter by Lovecraft to Derleth, 18 November 1936. These extracts or paraphrases, however, have not been deemed significant enough to merit inclusion in this bibliography. The 16 stories to which Joshi refers are listed below: �The Ancestor� �The Dark Brotherhood� �The Fisherman of Falcon Point� �The Gable Window� �The Horror from the Middle Span� �Innsmouth Clay� �The Lamp of Alhazred� The Lurker at the Threshold �The Peabody Heritage� �The Shadow in the Attic� �The Shadow out of Space� �The Shuttered Room� �The Survivor� �The Watchers out of Time� �Wentworth�s Day� �Witches� Hollow� Again, these works are entirely the work of August Derleth and cannot be considered among the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The son of William Julius Derleth and his wife Rose Louise Volk, he grew up in Sauk City, Wisconsin. 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-Madison 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.Derleth was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1938 for his Sac Prairie Saga, a series of novels focused on Wisconsin history.[1] His sponsors included the novelist Sinclair Lewis and the poet Edgar Lee Masters.In 1941 he became literary editor of The Capital Times newspaper in Madison, a post he held until his resignation in 1960.Derleth was married April 6, 1953, to Sandra Evelyn Winters; he was 44 and she was 18 at the time. When the couple divorced six years later in 1959, Derleth 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 in Sauk City.