In his Inverness cape Solar Pons steps briskly from No. 7B Praed Street onto the mist-shrouded cobblestones of old London's alleyways. Once again the game is afoot... Over forty years ago the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle passed into the hand of n...
Solar Pons draws thoughtfully at his pipe, his keen eyes fixed on the door to his quarters at No. 7B Praed Street. In a moment a visitor will arrive -- once again setting the game afoot. When August Derleth inherited the mantle of Arthur Conan Doy...
Only Watson himself could distinguish between the footsteps of Pons or Holmes. If you've not yet joined the chase, you are about to discover new joy in a tradition that, alas, has disappeared. Come, the game is afoot!...
Here again, in nostalgic reminders of vanished days and nights in Baker Street, we visit with the literary descendant of the Master -- Solar Pons, the Pride of Praed Street. Join him and his faithful Dr. Lyndon Parker in their plots, counterplots, a...
Whatever your fancy in the polished old world of deductive detective cunning -- a mummified human hand conspicuously resting in an intarsia box, a haunted moonlit library, a tattered corpse caught up in a rapacious invincible curse -- Solar Pons will...
HE STALKS AGAIN! Once more the most successful of pastiche-detectives. Solar Pons, walks on stage with a new sequence of adventures. In this fifth major collection Solar Pons is engaged with an intriguing variety of problems -- the curious puzzle of...
Who Done It? Mr. Fairlie set out for London but never reached his destination. His dead body was found en route and in the lining of his hat was the address of . . . Solar Pons! No one had any evident motive to kill Jonas Fairlie -- but someone...
Ambrose Dewart returns to his ancestral estate and sets about restoring the mansion to his own tastes. In the process he comes across a document signed by his great grandfather invoking a sinister injunction to future generations: "Do not invite he w...
Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivionâ€"and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare, hard-to-find collaborations of cosmic terror are back in print, including• Wentworth’s Day A fellow f...
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....
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 th...
Brilliantly imagined by the late H. P. Lovecraft, the mythical cycle of Cthulhu is expanded and enriched in this one-volume edition of tales that only August Derleth, Lovecraft's friend and collaborator, could have produced. With the marvelously inve...
Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Three" features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best authors: August Derleth, Fritz Leiber, Jack Sharkey, ...
Trouble always seems to find Steve Grendon and Sim Jones. This time, they are far from home on an island right smack in the middle of the Wisconsin Dells they thought was deserted.
Sim is practical, logical, and doesn’t like surprises. St...
Once more the epic struggle between the Elder Gods and the Ancient Ones was having repercussions on one of earth's seemingly most peaceful valleys....
What caught Harcourt’s eye almost immediately was a disc recorder standing near the desk, together with stacks of discs, some manifestly used, others clearly not yet touched, ready for anyone who might care to use the recorder....
You can't always escape evils by running away from them...but it may help!...
Once more the most successful of pastiche-detectives, Solar Pons, walks on stage with a new sequence of adventures. In this fourth major collection, Solar Pons is engaged with an intriguing variety of problems -- the curious puzzle of the antique s...
Quintus Maugham is gripped by an obsession: creating the perfect robot. His latest invention, Herman, follows commands flawlessly and can perform household tasks with precision. But as Herman becomes increasingly animated, Maugham grows uneasy about ...
August Derleth was a leading American regional writer and was prolific in several other genres including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, mystery fiction, speculative fiction, horror, science fiction, and biography. A friend of H. P. Lo...
Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny -- or did he?...