April Derleth

NickolausPacione · Post by **NickolausPacione** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:42 pm

I noticed that April Derleth actually vouched for the website; is she related by some chance to August Derleth? If she is that is almost like getting a message from August himself, and I was wondering if she read any of the work on here?

Post by **Aleister** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:14 pm

April is the daughter of August Derleth. I have been in communication with her for a while. There is a chance she reads the actual works but I have not asked her

MikeFS · Post by **MikeFS** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:18 am

There's something touching about a family business. Good to see the Derleths still in Arkham House. Mr. Derleth might not have been as good a writer as Lovecraft, but he's still really, really good on his own.

That was actually pretty cool that Arkham House actually commended Temple of Dagon. That's something for us to boast about with other Mythos pages, aye?

Although I gotta wonder, considering when her father lived, exactly how old is Mrs. Derleth?

Post by **Aleister** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:30 am

I couldn't tell you how old she is. And it wouldn't be too proper for me to ask

NickolausPacione · Post by **NickolausPacione** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 11:55 am

Especially for all of us who writes in the Cthulhu Mythos. You have to thank me for suggesting that Aleister posts stories of other writers in the Cthulhu Mythos. He saw Shadow of the Gathering and never looked back. For a short time he had the stories of Lovecraft on here as well, but now it is just the writers of hte Cthulhu Mythos. I discovered Clinton Green on a place called House of Pain.com then Andrew Ian Dodge was a writer I knew about from AuthorsDen. For to be commended by April, that is a kick ass move on Al's part. It will be a matter of time when April looks into each of our works individually.