H.P. Lovecraft Books In Order
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The White Ship | (1919) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Cats of Ulthar | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Other Gods | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Through the Gates of the Silver Key | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Randolph Carter Books
The Unnamable | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Necronomicon | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror | (1931) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories Of Horror | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Outsider and Others | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of the Supernatural | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dunwich Horror and Others | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lurker at the Threshold | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Something About Cats and Other Pieces | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Survivor and Others | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dreams and Fancies | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Shadow Out Of Time and Other Tales of Horror | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shadows of Death | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Tales of Inspector Legrasse | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird Tales | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Crawling Chaos and Others | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Works of Weird Fiction | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Weird Poems | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lurking Fear and More Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beyond the Wall of Sleep and Other Strange Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dagon Rising | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Marginalia | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of H. P. Lovecraft | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tales of Cosmic Terror | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Supernatural Horror in Literature | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lovecraft at Last: The Master of Horror in His Own Words | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Selected Letters IV, 1932-1934 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Uncollected Letters | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H.P. Lovecraft | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to Henry Kuttner | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to Richard F. Searight | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to Robert Bloch | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to Samuel Loveman & Vincent Starrett | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
More Annotated Lovecraft | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lord of a Visible World | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to Alfred Galpin | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 1: Amateur Journalism | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 2: Literary Criticism | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 3: Science | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 4: Travel | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Creeping Dementia | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Essays | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 1 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 2 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to James F. Morton | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to Robert Bloch and Others | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Shadows Over Innsmouth Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of August Derleth's "Posthumous Collaborations" Books
The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of New Annotated Lovecraft Books
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Eerie Archives Books
Eerie Archives, Vol. 1 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives Volume 2 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 4 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 5 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 8 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 9 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 10 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 11 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 12 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives Volume 13 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives Volume 14 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives Volume 16 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie ArchivesVolume 21 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives Volume 22 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Swords & Sorcery | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1 | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Summoned From The Tomb | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sea Tales of Terror | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beyond Midnight | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Weird Legacies | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
65 Great Spine Chillers | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Great Fantasy | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
100 Wild Little Weird Tales | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sea-Cursed | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Necronomicon | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Brooklyn Noir 2 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dancing with the Dark | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Horror in the Museum | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dead That Walk | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 3 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
50 Classic Novellas | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Horror for the Holidays | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Baen Big Book of Monsters | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Red Sky | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fossil Lake II | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Legacy of the Reanimator | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Weird Fiction Collection #1 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Thoughts and Pictures | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Classic Cat Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wonder and Glory Forever | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Colour Out of Deathlehem | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, more commonly known as H.P. Lovecraft, was one of the most influential horror authors. Unfortunately he was rather unknown during his life and only became famous after his death.
H.P. was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA and spent most of his life there. He had to see his father being locked up in a mental institution when he was only three years of age. His mother raised him together with his grandfather and two aunts, who all lived together in the family home. He started writing horror stories with eight. His grandfather, who loved storytelling, was an inspiring influence early on and encouraging him to read.
As he suffered from anxiety and didn’t get along with his classmates, his mother decided to keep him at home most of the time. Very early in this life he began suffering from night terrors. He believed that he was being assaulted by “night gaunts”, one of the races he later used in his work.
After his grandfather’s death in 1904 the family had to move into a smaller house, mismanagement having led them into a poor financial situation. Shortly before his high school graduation he suffered a nervous breakdown and never managed to get his diploma. He wanted to become a astronomer but had difficulties with higher math, which was required for it.
Lovecraft lived isolated for many years after having left school. Focusing on writing poetry and not interested in employment or social contacts. This only changed in 1913 after writing a letter to a pulp magazine complaining about the love stories, which he thought were boring and dull. This led to a debate in the letters column of the magazine, which didn’t go unnoticed. The president of the United Amateur Press, who had seen it, asked H.P. to join them.
In 1919 his mother was placed in the same mental hospital her husband had died in. She had been suffering from depression and hysteria for a long time. She stayed in close contact with her son until she died in 1921, due to complications during her gall bladder surgery.
Not long after her death he met Sonia Greene and the two became very close. Despite his aunt’s disapproval they married in 1924 and he moved into her apartment in New York. There he became part of a group of intellectuals, who pushed him into submitting stories to Weird Tales, where many of his “Dream Cycle” stories were published.
Unfortunately soon after their marriage, his wife lost her business and became ill. Though Howard tried to support his wife, the fact that he had no work experience was making things very hard for him. Greene moved several times and her employment forced her to constantly travel. Lovecraft stayed in New York and his wife sent him a weekly allowance. It was during that time that he started writing the outlines of “The Call of Cthulhu”.
In 1926 he moved back to Providence where he worked as a ghost writer and revised other authors’ works. One of his clients tried helping Lovecraft, introduced him to the head of a newspaper syndicate. However when the man died any plans for further project were abandoned.
When he reached the last years of his life, his inheritance, that he had been living on, was almost gone. Working for other authors and selling his own stories was never enough to provide for his life. This forced him to move in with his last aunt. At the beginning of 1937 he was diagnosed with cancer. This resulted in constant pain until he died in March that year. Lovecraft wrote in his diary about his illness close to the moment he died.
Most of his fiction was published by Arkham House, that was originally created to publish the work of H.P Lovecraft. It has since then also published other authors. Currently there are three books available that are collections of his work published by Penguin. “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, “The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories” and “The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories”.
“The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories” is based on the short story “The Call of Cthulhu” but contains 17 more stories written by Lovecraft. Many of the stories in this volume are interrelated and sometimes references to each other. This is because they all play in the same fictional world Lovecraft has created. The Necronomicon is referenced in many of these stories. It is a grimoire bound in leather with metal claps, filled with magic spells. In this fictional universe the central figure is Cthulhu, one of the “Great Old Ones”, powerful and ancient creatures. These beings once ruled Earth, but are in a deathlike sleep now. They are worshiped by various cults who work towards their return.
In the “Call of Cthulhu” Francis Wayland Thurston tells the reader about notes that were left behind by his granduncle, who had died unexpected. In these notes the professor talks about Cthulhu and the discovery of a statuette, that got the attention of the American Archaeological Society in Missouri. It was made of an unidentifiable green black stone, that had been captured in a raid on a voodoo meeting. An Inspector Legrasse was asking the Society for help in identifying it. During a search for women and children that had disappeared, the police arrested 47 people that had been involved in killing the missing people. As it turned out these people were worshipers of the Great Old Ones, who were waiting for the great priest Cthulhu to rise again. This cult would be ready for his call so they could liberate him. One of the prisoners identified the statue as the “Great Cthulhu”.
This story together with the “Shadows Over Innsmouth” are considered masterpieces of Lovecraft.
“The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories” is the third book in the Lovecraft paperback collection and was released in 2004. This collection includes some of the more fantasy style stories. The Nameless City, perhaps the best known short story of this book, was inspired by a dream. This city is located somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula. At first look it is abandoned but hieroglyphs found tell a story of beings living in the city. They are, however, not humans but are described as a mix of lizard, seal and crocodile. This story is also the first time Abdul Alhazred, the mad Arab, is mentioned.
H.P. Lovecraft has been a influence on a great many things. Other authors have been using the Lovecraft Universe. But he also inspired things Batman and Southpark. He is an inspiration in music as well as games. The “Old gods” in the MMORPG World of Warcraft are influenced by his work. There even is a cult that believes Lovecraft’s tales to be true and wait for the Great Old Ones to rise again.
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