Another of Lovecraft’s great friends and literary champions was the writer and editor August Derleth, who kept Lovecraft’s work in print long after the writer had died.

Fans have been marking the death of horror writer HP Lovecraft 75 years ago. ... Bloch and August Derleth benefited from his criticism when they began to sell stories to Weird Tales, ...

Fans have been marking the death of horror writer HP Lovecraft 75 years ago. ... Bloch and August Derleth benefited from his criticism when they began to sell stories to Weird Tales, ...