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) |    |
| The Cats of Ulthar | (1920) | |
| The Other Gods | (1933) | |
| Through the Gates of the Silver Key | (1934) | |
| The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | (1970) | |
Publication Order of Randolph Carter Books
| The Unnamable | (1925) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (1941) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson | (1917) | |
| Beyond the Wall of Sleep | (1919) | |
| Memory | (1919) | |
| The Doom That Came to Sarnath | (1920) | |
| The Statement of Randolph Carter | (1920) | |
| The Street | (1920) | |
| Nyarlathotep | (1920) | |
| Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family / The White Ape | (1921) | |
| The Terrible Old Man | (1921) | |
| The Nameless City | (1921) | |
| Ex Oblivione | (1921) | |
| The Picture in the House | (1921) | |
| The Tree | (1921) | |
| Herbert West: Reanimator | (1922) | |
| Celephais | (1922) | |
| The Music of Erich Zann | (1922) | |
| What the Moon Brings | (1922) | |
| Hypnos | (1923) | |
| The Hound | (1924) | |
| In the Vault | (1925) | |
| The Temple | (1925) | |
| The Festival | (1925) | |
| The Moon-Bog | (1926) | |
| The Outsider | (1926) | |
| The Horror at Red Hook | (1927) | |
| Pickman's Model | (1927) | |
| The Call of Cthulhu | (1928) | |
| Cool Air | (1928) | |
| The Silver Key | (1929) | |
| The Strange High House in the Mist | (1931) | |
| Dreams in the Witch-House | (1933) | |
| The Tree on the Hill | (1934) | |
| From Beyond | (1934) | |
| The Quest of Iranon | (1935) | |
| At the Mountains of Madness | (1936) | |
| The Shadow Over Innsmouth | (1936) | |
| The Shadow Out of Time | (1936) | |
| The Haunter of the Dark | (1936) | |
| The Shunned House | (1937) | |
| The Thing on the Doorstep | (1937) | |
| The Lurking Fear / Cry Horror! | (1937) | |
| History of the Necronomicon | (1938) | |
| Azathoth | (1938) | |
| The Descendant | (1938) | |
| Sweet Ermengarde | (1943) | |
| The Peabody Heritage | (1957) | |
| The Rats in the Walls | (2017) | |
| The Dunwich Horror | (2017) | |
| The Tomb | (2017) | |
| He | (2017) | |
| The Whisperer in Darkness | (2020) | |
| Polaris | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems | (1920) | |
| The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories | (1920) | |
| The Lurking Fear and Other Stories | (1923) | |
| The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag | (1923) | |
| The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories | (1926) | |
| The Colour Out of Space | (1927) | |
| Necronomicon | (1930) | |
| At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror | (1931) | |
| Tales of H.P. Lovecraft | (1935) | |
| The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales | (1935) | |
| The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories Of Horror | (1936) | |
| The Outsider and Others | (1939) | |
| The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of the Supernatural | (1944) | |
| The Dunwich Horror and Others | (1945) | |
| The Lurker at the Threshold | (1945) | |
| Something About Cats and Other Pieces | (1949) | |
| The Survivor and Others | (1957) | |
| Dreams and Fancies | (1962) | |
| Dagon and Other Macabre Tales | (1965) | |
| The Shadow Out Of Time and Other Tales of Horror | (1968) | |
| The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | |
| The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror | (1977) | |
| The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft | (1983) | |
| The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories | (2004) | |
| The Tales of Inspector Legrasse | (2005) | |
| H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction | (2008) | |
| At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird Tales | (2009) | |
| The Crawling Chaos and Others | (2011) | |
| The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales | (2011) | |
| At the Mountains of Madness and Other Works of Weird Fiction | (2011) | |
| The Lurking Fear and More Stories | (2018) | |
| Beyond the Wall of Sleep and Other Strange Tales | (2018) | |
| Dagon Rising | (2019) | |
| Marginalia | (2020) | |
| The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales | (2020) | |
| The Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors | (2021) | |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | |
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (2013) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| 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: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard | (2017) | |
Publication Order of William Meikle Collections
(with , William Meikle)
| The Johnson Amulet and Other Scottish Terrors | (2001) | |
| Samurai and Other Stories | (2013) | |
| Myths and Monsters | (2014) | |
| The Midnight Eye Files Collection | (2016) | |
| The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror | (2017) | |
| Into The Black: Tales of Lovecraftian Terror | (2019) | |
| Bug Eyed Monsters | (2019) | |
| Dagon Rising | (2019) | |
| Tomes of Terror: Ten Novels of Horror | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Shadows Over Innsmouth Anthology Books
| Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | |
| Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | |
| Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | |
Publication Order of Brooklyn Noir Books
| Brooklyn Noir | (2004) | |
| Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics | (2005) | |
| Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth | (2008) | |
| Anthology series. Includes stories by various authors. | ||
Publication Order of August Derleth's "Posthumous Collaborations" Books
(with)
| The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) | |
Publication Order of Eerie Archives Books
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 1 | (2004) | |
| Eerie Archives Volume 2 | (2009) | |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 3 | (2010) | |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 4 | (2010) | |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 5 | (2010) | |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 7 | (2011) | |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 8 | (2011) | |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 10 | (2012) | |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 11 | (2012) | |
| Eerie Archives, Vol. 12 | (2013) | |
| Eerie Archives Volume 13 | (2013) | |
| Eerie Archives Volume 14 | (2013) | |
| Eerie Archives Volume 16 | (2014) | |
| Eerie ArchivesVolume 21 | (2016) | |
| Eerie Archives Volume 22 | (2016) | |
| Anthology series. | ||
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Summoned From The Tomb | (1973) | |
| Weird Legacies | (1977) | |
| The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | |
| Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction | (2007) | |
| Halloween | (2009) | |
| The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction | (2013) | |
| The Baen Big Book of Monsters | (2014) | |
| Thoughts and Pictures | (2020) | |
| The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | |
| Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction | (2020) | |
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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