Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | 1941 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Alchemist | 1916 |
| A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson | 1917 |
| The Beast in the Cave | 1918 |
| Memory | 1919 |
| Beyond the Wall of Sleep | 1919 |
| Dagon | 1919 |
| The White Ship | 1919 |
| The Statement of Randolph Carter | 1920 |
| The Doom That Came to Sarnath | 1920 |
| Poetry and the Gods (With: Anna Helen Crofts) | 1920 |
| The Cats of Ulthar | 1920 |
| Nyarlathotep | 1920 |
| Polaris | 1920 |
| The Street | 1920 |
| Ex Oblivione | 1921 |
| Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family | 1921 |
| The Crawling Chaos (With: Winifred V. Jackson) | 1921 |
| The Terrible Old Man | 1921 |
| The Picture in the House | 1921 |
| The Tree | 1921 |
| The Nameless City | 1921 |
| Herbert West: Reanimator | 1922 |
| The Music of Erich Zann | 1922 |
| The Tomb | 1922 |
| Celephaïs | 1922 |
| The Lurking Fear | 1923 |
| Hypnos | 1923 |
| What the Moon Brings | 1923 |
| The Horror at Martin’s Beach (With: Sonia H. Greene) | 1923 |
| The Hound | 1924 |
| Ashes (With: C. M. Eddy Jr.) | 1924 |
| The Rats in the Walls | 1924 |
| The Ghost-Eater (With: C. M. Eddy Jr.) | 1924 |
| Under the Pyramids / Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (With: Harry Houdini) | 1924 |
| The Loved Dead (With: C. M. Eddy Jr.) | 1924 |
| The Festival | 1925 |
| Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (With: C. M. Eddy Jr.) | 1925 |
| The Unnamable | 1925 |
| The Temple | 1925 |
| In the Vault | 1925 |
| The Outsider | 1926 |
| The Moon-Bog | 1926 |
| He | 1926 |
| The Horror at Red Hook | 1927 |
| The Green Meadow (With: Winifred V. Jackson) | 1927 |
| Two Black Bottles (With: Wilfred Blanch Talman) | 1927 |
| The Colour Out of Space | 1927 |
| Pickman’s Model | 1927 |
| The Call of Cthulhu | 1928 |
| Cool Air | 1928 |
| The Last Test (With: Adolphe de Castro) | 1928 |
| The Silver Key | 1929 |
| The Dunwich Horror | 1929 |
| The Curse of Yig (With: Zealia Bishop) | 1929 |
| The Electric Executioner (With: Adolphe de Castro) | 1930 |
| The Whisperer in Darkness | 1931 |
| The Strange High House in the Mist | 1931 |
| The Trap (With: Henry S. Whitehead) | 1932 |
| The Man of Stone (With: Hazel Heald) | 1932 |
| The Horror in the Museum (With: Hazel Heald) | 1933 |
| The Dreams in the Witch House | 1933 |
| The Other Gods | 1933 |
| Winged Death (With: Hazel Heald) | 1934 |
| From Beyond | 1934 |
| Through the Gates of the Silver Key (With: E. Hoffmann Price) | 1934 |
| Out of the Aeons (With: Hazel Heald) | 1935 |
| The Quest of Iranon | 1935 |
| Till A’ the Seas (With: R. H. Barlow) | 1935 |
| The Challenge from Beyond (With: C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long) | 1935 |
| At the Mountains of Madness | 1936 |
| The Shadow over Innsmouth | 1936 |
| The Shadow Out of Time | 1936 |
| The Night Ocean (With: R. H. Barlow) | 1936 |
| The Haunter of the Dark | 1936 |
| The Thing on the Doorstep | 1937 |
| The Disinterment (With: Duane W. Rimel) | 1937 |
| The Horror in the Burying-Ground (With: Hazel Heald) | 1937 |
| The Shunned House | 1937 |
| Ibid | 1938 |
| The Diary of Alonzo Typer (With: William Lumley) | 1938 |
| Azathoth | 1938 |
| The Descendant | 1938 |
| The Book | 1938 |
| History of the Necronomicon | 1938 |
| Medusa’s Coil (With: Zealia Bishop) | 1939 |
| The Evil Clergyman | 1939 |
| In the Walls of Eryx (With: Kenneth Sterling) | 1939 |
| The Very Old Folk | 1940 |
| The Tree on the Hill (With: Duane W. Rimel) | 1940 |
| The Mound (With: Zealia Bishop) | 1940 |
| The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | 1943 |
| Sweet Ermengarde | 1943 |
| The Transition of Juan Romero | 1944 |
| Old Bugs | 1959 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Outsider and Others | 1939 |
| Beyond the Wall of Sleep | 1943 |
| Marginalia | 1944 |
| Something About Cats and Other Pieces | 1949 |
| The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces | 1959 |
| Dreams and Fancies | 1962 |
| The Dunwich Horror and Others | 1963 |
| At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels | 1964 |
| Dagon and Other Macabre Tales | 1965 |
| The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces | 1966 |
| The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions | 1970 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Supernatural Horror in Literature | 1927 |
| Selected Letters I (1911-1924) | 1965 |
| Selected Letters II (1925-1929) | 1968 |
| Selected Letters III (1929-1931) | 1971 |
| Selected Letters IV (1932-1934) | 1976 |
| Selected Letters V (1934-1937) | 1976 |
| Miscellaneous Writings | 1994 |
About H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft (1890 to 1937) was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy and science fiction, best known as the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos. He was almost unknown in his lifetime and was published mainly in pulp magazines, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-century authors of supernatural horror fiction.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and spent most of his life in New England. His father was institutionalised in 1893, and the family’s money dissipated after the death of his grandfather. He began by writing essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and a critical letter he sent to a pulp magazine in 1913 led to his involvement in pulp fiction. He married Sonia Greene in 1924 and moved to New York City, where friends encouraged him to submit to “Weird Tales”, which became his most prominent publisher.
He returned to Providence in 1926 and wrote for another 11 years. This final period produced “The Call of Cthulhu”, “At the Mountains of Madness”, “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and “The Shadow Out of Time”. His fiction is rooted in cosmicism, the idea that humanity is an insignificant part of the cosmos, and much of it is set in a fictionalised New England. He also revised and ghostwrote stories for other authors, among them Harry Houdini. His one novel, “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”, was never typed up in his lifetime and first appeared in “Weird Tales” in 1941.
Lovecraft was never able to support himself from his writing. “The Shadow over Innsmouth” was the only one of his stories published in book form while he was alive: 400 copies were printed in 1936, of which only about 200 were bound. He died of cancer of the small intestine in Providence on 15 March 1937, aged 46.
After his death, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei founded Arkham House in 1939 to publish hardcover collections of his work, beginning with “The Outsider and Others”. A scholarly revival followed from the 1970s. Stephen King has cited Lovecraft as a major influence, as have Alan Moore, John Carpenter and Guillermo del Toro. Lovecraft held racist views for much of his adult life, and in 2015 the World Fantasy Award stopped using a trophy modelled on him for that reason. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2016.
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