John D. Haefele

I enjoy a lifelong appreciation of literature, favoring top-flight fantasy authors including J. R. R. Tolkien and Ray Bradbury, but especially H. P. Lovecraft. I also value August Derleth's lifetime contributions to the field, particularly as they relate to his famous publishing company Arkham House.

I began writing late in life, only after retiring upon concluding a 35-year career with Target Corporation. Much of my work is nonfiction that has appeared in the Little Reviews or on the following websites: Allied Authors of Wisconsin; Don Herron's Up and Down These Mean Streets; and Amazon Reviews.

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Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years, by Don Herron & John D. Haefele. A Pictorial History & Guide for Collectors

BOOK LIST

Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years, by Don Herron & John D. Haefele. [Illustrated guide]

August Derleth: A Bibliography of His Nonfiction. Cimmerian Press, 2024.

Lovecraft: The Great Tales. Cimmerian Press, 2021. [Criticism]

A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the “Cthulhu Mythos” 2nd ed. Cimmerian Press, 2014.

Comics in America by August Derleth. Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2011.

August Derleth Redux: The Weird Tale 1930–1971. H. Harksen Productions, 2009.

Lest We Forget: August Derleth on the Subject of H. P. Lovecraft. Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2009. [Bibliography]

A Bibliography of Books & Articles Written by August W. Derleth, Concerning Derleth & the Weird Tale & Arkham House Publishing. Cimmerian Press, 2006. [Addenda 2008 & 2021]

Arkham House Supplement. Hesperia Press, 1997.

ARTICLES, POSTS, & FICTION

“New Clues about August Derleth’s Most Elusive Book.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 16 Nov. 2022, Web.

“One Starry Night.” [2012] Eldritch Tales V2n7 (July 2022). [Fiction]

“Two-Gun Bob: In Memoriam?” Up and Down These Mean Streets: The Official Website of Don Herron, 28 June 2022, Web.

“A Day in the Lives of the Fictioneers.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 10 June 2022, Web.

“Candlelight Press: Derleth’s Vanity Imprint?” Allied Authors One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 10 Oct. 2021, Web.

“Christmas Card Mystery Solved? Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 10 June 2021, Web.

“Arkham House Ephemera: A Checklist of the Modern Years.” Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine V29n11–12 (Nov–Dec. 2019)

“Arkham House Ephemera: The Modern Years.” Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine V29n9–10 (Sept–Oct. 2019)

“First & Final Estimates: August Derleth Looks at Weird Tales Magazine.” Crypt of Cthulhu No. 113 (2019)

“Derleth’s Notes on a Lovecraft Biography.” Crypt of Cthulhu No. 113 (2019)

“John D. Haefele on the History of Arkham House.” Up and Down These Mean Streets: The Official Website of Don Herron, 10 Apr. 2019, Web. [Rev., Eighty Years of Arkham House, by S. T. Joshi]

“From One Derleth Devotee to Another.” Up and Down These Mean Streets: The Official Website of Don Herron, 27 Mar. 2019, Web.

“Who Knows Solar Pons?” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 9 Feb. 2019, Web.

“Hammett: And Derleth.” Up and Down These Mean Streets: The Official Website of Don Herron, 7 July 2018, Web.

“The Branding of Sac Prairie.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 14 June 2018, Web.

“Serendipitous Canonization.” Crypt of Cthulhu No. 110 (2018)

“Hawk & Whippoorwill: Derleth’s Overlooked Imprint, Part 3.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 1 Nov. 2016, Web.

“Hawk & Whippoorwill: Derleth’s Little Review, Part 2.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 11 Sept. 2016, Web.

“Hawk & Whippoorwill: The Little Reviews, Part 1.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 16 Aug. 2016, Web.

“Mystery of the Milwaukee-Chicago-Sauk City Connection.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 5 Mar. 2016, Web.

“Stephen King’s Threshold.” Cimmerian, 23 Feb. 2016, Web.

“Fungi from Yuggoth & Beyond.” Cimmerian, 9 Nov. 2015, Web.

“A Testament to His Influence.” Rev. of Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell & August Derleth. Up and Down These Mean Streets: The Official Website of Don Herron, 21 Sept. 2015, Web.

“Why HPL?” Pulpster No. 24 (2015): 16–17.

“Lovecraft’s Letters to Robert Bloch: End of Era Begins Another.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 28 Jan. 2015, Web.

“The Sculptures in the House.” [2013] Searchers after Horror, Fedogan & Bremer, 2014. [Fiction]

“Derleth’s Lurid Book a Rare Mystery.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 19 Mar. 2014, Web.

“A Derleth Christmas Card.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 27 Dec. 2013, Web.

“A Further Look Behind S. T. Joshi’s Review.” Up and Down These Mean Streets: The Official Website of Don Herron, 22 Sept. 2013, Web.

“A Look Behind S. T. Joshi’s Review.” Up and Down These Mean Streets: The Official Website of Don Herron, 22 Aug. 2013, Web.

“Reappraising ‘The Haunter of the Dark.’” Lovecraft Annual No. 7, Hippocampus Press, 2013.

“Little Bastards” [2011] Dark Fusions: Where Monsters Lurk! PS Publishing, 2013. [Fiction]

“Milwaukee Fictioneers & Allied Authors.” Wisconsin Harvest [Vol. 2], Wisconsin Writers Association, 2013.

“Bloch-Heads.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 13 Feb. 2013, Web.

“Shadow out of Hodgson.” Sargasso No. 1 (2013). Rpt., Voices from the Borderland, Hippocampus Press, 2014.

“Weird Literary Life & Times of Stephen Grendon.” Nameless Magazine No. 2 (2012)

“Dubious Derleth.” Allied Authors: One of Wisconsin’s Oldest Writing Collectives, 14 June 2012, Web.

“Far From Time: Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth & Arkham House.” Weird Fiction Review No. 1 (2010)

Rev. of Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth. Lovecraft Annual No. 2 (2008)

“Always Comes Evening, for Fifty Years.” Cimmerian V4n6 (2007)

“August Derleth, Lloyd Eshbach, & William Crawford: Publishers.” August Derleth Society Newsletters V28n4 (2007)

“The Branding of Arkham House.” August Derleth Society Newsletter V28n2 (2007)

“August Derleth & The Outsider.” August Derleth Society Newsletter V28n1 (2007)

“Skull-Face & Others at Sixty.” Cimmerian V3n9 (2006)

“Robert E. Howard in the Necronomicon Press.” Cimmerian V2n6 (2005)