H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction--three short novels and about sixty short stories--has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.
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The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag (poems) (1923)
At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)
The Shunned House (1938)
The Outsider and Others (1939)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943)
Marginalia (1944)
The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth (1944)
Best Supernatural Stories of H P Lovecraft (1945)
The Dunwich Horror (1945)
The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) (with August Derleth)
The Lurking Fear (1947)
aka Cry Horror!
Something About Cats (1949)
The Haunter of the Dark (1950)
The Survivor (1957) (with August Derleth)
Dreams and Fancies (1962)
The Colour Out of Space (1963)
Dagon (1965)
Three Tales of Horror (1967)
The Shadow Out of Time (1968)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1970)
The Watchers Out of Time (1974) (with August Derleth)
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (1982)
Best of H.P. Lovecraft (1982)
The Dream Cycle of H P Lovecraft (1987)
The Challenge From Beyond (1990) (with others)
Crawling Chaos: Selected Works, 1920-35 (1992)
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft (1996)
Tales of H P Lovecraft (1997)
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999)
Ancient Track (poems) (2001)
From the Pest Zone (2003)
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories (2004)
The Tales of Inspector Legrasse (2005) (with C J Henderson)
The Necronomicon (2008)
Lovecraft's Best Short Stories (2009)
The Crawling Chaos and Others (2012)
Those Dreadful Eltdown Shards (2016) (with Franklyn Searight and Richard F Searight)
The Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (2018)
Call of Cthulhu / At the Mountains of Madness (2018)
Eldritch Tales (2020)
Grimoire (2022) (with others)
The Early Stories (2023)
Tales of Cosmic Terror (2023)
H.P. Lovecraft's Randolph Carter MEGAPACK (2023) (with E Hoffmann Price)
The Invocations (2024)
The Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors (2025)
At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)
The Shunned House (1938)
The Outsider and Others (1939)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943)
Marginalia (1944)
The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth (1944)
Best Supernatural Stories of H P Lovecraft (1945)
The Dunwich Horror (1945)
The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) (with August Derleth)
The Lurking Fear (1947)
aka Cry Horror!
Something About Cats (1949)
The Haunter of the Dark (1950)
The Survivor (1957) (with August Derleth)
Dreams and Fancies (1962)
The Colour Out of Space (1963)
Dagon (1965)
Three Tales of Horror (1967)
The Shadow Out of Time (1968)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1970)
The Watchers Out of Time (1974) (with August Derleth)
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (1982)
Best of H.P. Lovecraft (1982)
The Dream Cycle of H P Lovecraft (1987)
The Challenge From Beyond (1990) (with others)
Crawling Chaos: Selected Works, 1920-35 (1992)
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft (1996)
Tales of H P Lovecraft (1997)
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999)
Ancient Track (poems) (2001)
From the Pest Zone (2003)
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories (2004)
The Tales of Inspector Legrasse (2005) (with C J Henderson)
The Necronomicon (2008)
Lovecraft's Best Short Stories (2009)
The Crawling Chaos and Others (2012)
Those Dreadful Eltdown Shards (2016) (with Franklyn Searight and Richard F Searight)
The Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (2018)
Call of Cthulhu / At the Mountains of Madness (2018)
Eldritch Tales (2020)
Grimoire (2022) (with others)
The Early Stories (2023)
Tales of Cosmic Terror (2023)
H.P. Lovecraft's Randolph Carter MEGAPACK (2023) (with E Hoffmann Price)
The Invocations (2024)
The Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors (2025)
Novellas and Short Stories
The Beast in the Cave (1905)
The Alchemist (1908)
The Tomb (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Memory (1919)
The Picture in the House (1919)
The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
The White Ship (1919)
The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
aka The White Ape
From Beyond (1920)
The Street (1920)
The Temple (1920)
The Terrible Old Man (1920)
The Tree (1920)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1920)
Ex Oblivione (1921)
The Nameless City (1921)
The Other Gods (1921)
The Outsider (1921)
The Quest of Iranon (1921)
The Crawling Chaos (1921)
The Hound (1922)
Hypnos (1922)
The Music of Erich Zann (1922)
The Festival (1923)
The Unnamable (1923)
What the Moon Brings (1923)
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (1924)
The Rats in the Walls (1924)
He (1925)
In the Vault (1925)
The Horror at Red Hook (1926)
The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
Pickman's Model (1927)
The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
Cool Air (1928)
Nyarlathotep (1931)
The Whisperer in Darkness (1931)
The Dreams in the Witch House (1933)
In the Walls of Eryx (1935)
The Evil Clergyman (1937)
The Silver Key (1937)
The Thing on the Doorstep (1937)
Medusa's Coil (1939) (with Zelea Bishop)
Azathoth (1965)
The Book (1965)
The Descendant (1965)
The Alchemist (1908)
The Tomb (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Memory (1919)
The Picture in the House (1919)
The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
The White Ship (1919)
The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
aka The White Ape
From Beyond (1920)
The Street (1920)
The Temple (1920)
The Terrible Old Man (1920)
The Tree (1920)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1920)
Ex Oblivione (1921)
The Nameless City (1921)
The Other Gods (1921)
The Outsider (1921)
The Quest of Iranon (1921)
The Crawling Chaos (1921)
The Hound (1922)
Hypnos (1922)
The Music of Erich Zann (1922)
The Festival (1923)
The Unnamable (1923)
What the Moon Brings (1923)
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (1924)
The Rats in the Walls (1924)
He (1925)
In the Vault (1925)
The Horror at Red Hook (1926)
The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
Pickman's Model (1927)
The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
Cool Air (1928)
Nyarlathotep (1931)
The Whisperer in Darkness (1931)
The Dreams in the Witch House (1933)
In the Walls of Eryx (1935)
The Evil Clergyman (1937)
The Silver Key (1937)
The Thing on the Doorstep (1937)
Medusa's Coil (1939) (with Zelea Bishop)
Azathoth (1965)
The Book (1965)
The Descendant (1965)
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Books containing stories by H P Lovecraft
The Lure of Atlantis (2023)
Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 40)
edited by
Michael Wheatley
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For the Blood Is the Life (1996)
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"Crawford's weird Masterpiece is one of the most tremendous horror stories in all literature."
A Martian Odyssey (1962)
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"The imagination to envisage wholly alien situations and psychologies and entities, to devise consistent events from wholly alien motives ... a light touch - and genuine suspense..."
The Double Shadow (1933)
Clark Ashton Smith
"None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer."
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