Order of H.P. Lovecraft Books
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror stories. He did not achieve any significant fame during his lifetime, but has posthumously become an extremely influential author of his time period. Growing up, Lovecraft suffered from night terrors, which would later inspire some of his fiction. He was a reclusive adult – a night owl who lived with his mother. After writing into the pulp magazine The Argosy, he gained the attention of Edward F. Daas (President of the United Amateur Press Association), who encouraged him to start writing poems and essays. Sadly, he lived out his final days in immense pain due to small intestine cancer and malnutrition. Stephen King referred to Lovecraft as “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”
H.P. Lovecraft became a published author in 1923 with the poetry collection The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag. He only wrote one actual novel, which was 1943’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Below is a list of H.P. Lovecraft’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Dream Cycle Books
| The White Ship | (1919) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cats of Ulthar | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Other Gods | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Through the Gates of the Silver Key | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Randolph Carter Books
(by)
| The Unnamable | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lurking Fear and Other Stories | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Necronomicon | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror | (1931) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales of H.P. Lovecraft | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories Of Horror | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Outsider and Others | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of the Supernatural | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dunwich Horror and Others | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lurker at the Threshold | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Something About Cats and Other Pieces | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Survivor and Others | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dreams and Fancies | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dagon and Other Macabre Tales | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shadow Out Of Time and Other Tales of Horror | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shadows of Death | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Tales of Inspector Legrasse | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird Tales | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Crawling Chaos and Others | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| At the Mountains of Madness and Other Works of Weird Fiction | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weird Poems | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lurking Fear and More Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond the Wall of Sleep and Other Strange Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dagon Rising | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Marginalia | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of H. P. Lovecraft | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales of Cosmic Terror | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Supernatural Horror in Literature | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lovecraft at Last: The Master of Horror in His Own Words | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Letters IV, 1932-1934 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Uncollected Letters | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H.P. Lovecraft | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Henry Kuttner | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Richard F. Searight | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Robert Bloch | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Samuel Loveman & Vincent Starrett | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Annotated Lovecraft | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lord of a Visible World | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Alfred Galpin | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 1: Amateur Journalism | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 2: Literary Criticism | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 3: Science | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 4: Travel | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Creeping Dementia | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark Adventure Radio Theatre | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Essays | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 1 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 2 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to James F. Morton | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Robert Bloch and Others | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Shadows Over Innsmouth Books
| Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of August Derleth's "Posthumous Collaborations" Books
(with August Derleth)
| The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of New Annotated Lovecraft Books
(with Leslie Klinger)
| The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Swords & Sorcery | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1 | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Summoned From The Tomb | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sea Tales of Terror | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond Midnight | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weird Legacies | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 65 Great Spine Chillers | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Fantasy | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Wild Little Weird Tales | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sea-Cursed | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Necronomicon | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Brooklyn Noir 2 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dancing with the Dark | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Horror in the Museum | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead That Walk | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 3 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 50 Classic Novellas | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Horror for the Holidays | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Baen Big Book of Monsters | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Red Sky | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fossil Lake II | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Legacy of the Reanimator | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Weird Fiction Collection #1 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Thoughts and Pictures | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Classic Cat Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wonder and Glory Forever | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Colour Out of Deathlehem | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: The Lurking Fear and Other Stories was also published as Cry Horror!. The Survivor & Others and The Watchers Out of Time also contain contributions by August Derleth. The Tales of Inspector Legrasse was co-authored by C.J. Henderson. H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror is written by Joe R. Lansdale, based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft.
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