H.P. Lovecraft Books In Order
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The White Ship | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cats of Ulthar | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Other Gods | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through the Gates of the Silver Key | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Randolph Carter Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond the Wall of Sleep | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Memory | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Doom That Came to Sarnath | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Statement of Randolph Carter | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Street | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nyarlathotep | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family / The White Ape | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Terrible Old Man | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nameless City | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ex Oblivione | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Picture in the House | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tree | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Herbert West: Reanimator | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Celephais | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Music of Erich Zann | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What the Moon Brings | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hypnos | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hound | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Vault | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Temple | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Festival | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moon-Bog | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Outsider | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror at Red Hook | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pickman's Model | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Call of Cthulhu | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cool Air | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Silver Key | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Strange High House in the Mist | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreams in the Witch-House | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tree on the Hill | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From Beyond | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quest of Iranon | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At the Mountains of Madness | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow Over Innsmouth | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow Out of Time | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunter of the Dark | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shunned House | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thing on the Doorstep | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lurking Fear / Cry Horror! | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
History of the Necronomicon | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Azathoth | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Descendant | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sweet Ermengarde | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Peabody Heritage | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rats in the Walls | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dunwich Horror | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tomb | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
He | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whisperer in Darkness | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Polaris | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Colour Out of Space | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Necronomicon | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories Of Horror | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Outsider and Others | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of the Supernatural | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dunwich Horror and Others | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lurker at the Threshold | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Something About Cats and Other Pieces | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Survivor and Others | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreams and Fancies | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow Out Of Time and Other Tales of Horror | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows of Death | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tales of Inspector Legrasse | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird Tales | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crawling Chaos and Others | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Works of Weird Fiction | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Poems | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lurking Fear and More Stories | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond the Wall of Sleep and Other Strange Tales | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dagon Rising | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marginalia | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of Cosmic Terror | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Supernatural Horror in Literature | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lovecraft at Last: The Master of Horror in His Own Words | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters IV, 1932-1934 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uncollected Letters | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H.P. Lovecraft | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Henry Kuttner | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Richard F. Searight | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Robert Bloch | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Samuel Loveman & Vincent Starrett | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Annotated Lovecraft | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lord of a Visible World | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Alfred Galpin | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 1: Amateur Journalism | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 2: Literary Criticism | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 3: Science | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 4: Travel | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Creeping Dementia | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Essays | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 1 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 2 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to James F. Morton | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Robert Bloch and Others | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of William Meikle Collections
The Johnson Amulet and Other Scottish Terrors | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Samurai and Other Stories | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Myths and Monsters | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Midnight Eye Files Collection | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Into The Black: Tales of Lovecraftian Terror | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bug Eyed Monsters | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dagon Rising | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Diogenes Club Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White of the Moon | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus One | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Embrace the Mutation | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventure | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from the Diogenes Club | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fair Folk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Shadows Over Innsmouth Anthology Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Call of Cthulhu Fiction Books
The Shub-Niggurath Cycle | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Azathoth Cycle | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Iod | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nyarlathotep Cycle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Xothic Legend Cycle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Innsmouth Cycle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ithaqua Cycle | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Antarktos Cycle | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yellow Sign & Other Stories | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tsathoggua Cycle | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Pegāna: All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegāna | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Peg?na | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales Out of Innsmouth: New Stories of the Children of Dagon | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yith Cycle | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of August Derleth's "Posthumous Collaborations" Books
Publication Order of New Annotated Lovecraft Books
Publication Order of Eerie Archives Books
Eerie Archives, Vol. 1 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives Volume 2 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 4 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 5 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 8 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 10 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 11 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 12 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives Volume 13 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives Volume 14 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives Volume 16 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie ArchivesVolume 21 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives Volume 22 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Swords & Sorcery | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summoned From The Tomb | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sea Tales of Terror | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond Midnight | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Legacies | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
65 Great Spine Chillers | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Fantasy | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Wild Little Weird Tales | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sea-Cursed | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Necronomicon | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dancing with the Dark | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead That Walk | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eerie Archives, Vol. 3 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Classic Novellas | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror for the Holidays | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombies! | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Baen Big Book of Monsters | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Sky | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fossil Lake II | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Legacy of the Reanimator | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Weird Fiction Collection #1 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thoughts and Pictures | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Classic Cat Stories | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wonder and Glory Forever | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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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