Subject: Derleth Mentioned in Ransom Center Article
From: Mark Wardecker <[email-masked]>
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Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 10:57:07 -0500

Hi everyone,

The Ransom Center at the U of Texas is exhibiting a collection of Sherlock
Holmes pastiches and parodies. Here's a nice write-up that gives a whole
paragraph to Derleth:

"As Doyle’s frustration with Holmes’s popularity became more and more
apparent, and new adventures appeared less and less frequently, fans turned
to supplementing the canon with their own creations. After the publication
of the final Holmes tales in 1927, a Wisconsin teenager named August
Derleth started writing stories that both imitated and explicitly
referenced Holmes, introducing his detective Solar Pons as “the Sherlock
Holmes of Praed Street.” Derleth again translated his fan enthusiasm into
action when he founded Arkham House to ensure the publication of H. P.
Lovecraft’s works in formats more durable than pulp magazines. Arkham later
published the Pons stories under the imprint Mycroft & Moran, with each
volume featuring an introduction by a noted Sherlockian. Derleth eventually
wrote more stories about Pons than Doyle did about Holmes."

http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2013/04/04/sherlock-holmes-fanfic/

Mark