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last may i attended WisCon in madison, mainly as an excuse to visit my family. and while i was skipping out on the last day of panels, my family and i went out into the rolling hills of southern wisconsin and we just happened to pass through sauk city, the home of august derleth<\/a>. <\/p>\n

for those of you not familiar with derleth, he’s the guy who transformed h.p.lovecraft from a little-known pulp writer into (in the words of rick klaw) "the most over-rated writer of all time."<\/p>\n

sauk city has three things going for it: it’s the home of culver’s frozen custard and butterburgers, it has a dam, and it has august derleth. leystra’s restaurant is a block from the bridge over the river. one side of the restaurant is kinda diner-ish (i had a very dense and delicious butterscotch pie, and the sundaes look very good as well), and in a shadowy nook, decorated in the wisconsin "supper-club" style is augie’s room.<\/p>\n

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once i got the waitress to turn on the lights, i could browse the numerous derleth factoids and photos on the walls.
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augie went way out of his way to research his horror stories.
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remember when writers had poise?
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here, the august derleth society celebrates the hwy12 bridge re-dedicated as the "august derleth" bridge. it’s pretty much the only way to get between madison and baraboo, unless you count the merrimac ferry.
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