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:
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| Supernatural Horror in Literature | (1927) |    |
| Lovecraft at Last: The Master of Horror in His Own Words | (1927) | |
| Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 | (1964) | |
| Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 | (1965) | |
| Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 | (1971) | |
| Selected Letters IV, 1932-1934 | (1976) | |
| Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 | (1976) | |
| Uncollected Letters | (1986) | |
| Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H.P. Lovecraft | (1987) | |
| Letters to Henry Kuttner | (1991) | |
| Letters to Richard F. Searight | (1992) | |
| Letters to Robert Bloch | (1993) | |
| Letters to Samuel Loveman & Vincent Starrett | (1994) | |
| The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft | (1996) | |
| The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | (1997) | |
| More Annotated Lovecraft | (1999) | |
| Lord of a Visible World | (2000) | |
| Letters to Alfred Galpin | (2002) | |
| Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei | (2002) | |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 1: Amateur Journalism | (2004) | |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 2: Literary Criticism | (2004) | |
| Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner | (2005) | |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 3: Science | (2005) | |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 4: Travel | (2005) | |
| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany | (2006) | |
| Creeping Dementia | (2007) | |
| Dark Adventure Radio Theatre | (2007) | |
| Collected Essays | (2008) | |
| Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 1 | (2009) | |
| Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 2 | (2009) | |
| Letters to James F. Morton | (2011) | |
| Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw | (2014) | |
| Letters to Robert Bloch and Others | (2015) | |
| Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White | (2016) | |
| Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome | (2016) | |
| A Means to Freedom | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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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H.P. Lovecraft Synopsis: In The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft, black magic has opened a Pandora’s box of horrors in Rhode Island. Evil spirits are descending on a small town outside of Providence, including a supernatural force so evil that it kills its victims without the relief of death.
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