title: In Lovecraft's Shadow: The Cthulhu Mythos Stories of August Derleth
author: August Derleth
description: Co-publishers are Mycroft &amp; Moran with Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.
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  Fifteen of the stories included in this collection were written before my
  twenty-sixth birthday and published in August Derleth's Arkham House edition
  of my first book DARK CARNIVAL. This book has been out of print for some years
  and I welcomethe opportunity given me by the editors of Ballantine Books to
  select, edit, and in some cases rewrite my favorite stories from that early
  work. For my later readers, THE OCTOBER COUNTRY will present a side of my
  writing that is probably unfamiliar to them, and a type of story that I have
  rarely done since 1946. Looking back on those years I cannot help but express
  again my gratitude to August Derleth, who was my first publisher-editor, and
  to my hardest-working and most patient teachers, Leigh Brackett and Henry
  Kuttner.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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