Fire and Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre

by August Derleth (Editor)

A compilation of verse.
A collection of “poetry of the macabre, the weird, the supernatural,” edited by August Derleth. Contributors include Robert Bloch, Joseph Payne Brennan, Leah Bodine Drake, Clark Ashton Smith, et al.

Fire and Sleet and Candlelight is a poetry anthology edited by August Derleth. The title was suggested to Derleth by Lin Carter and is taken from the Lyke-Wake Dirge. For this companion volume to Dark of the Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre, Derleth included only living poets or poems that had not been previously published.

Genres: Horror

236 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1961

About the author

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Cosmic Horror genre, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography

A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing

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