HP Lovecraft
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

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward(1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Alchemist(1916)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson(1917)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beast in the Cave(1918)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beyond the Wall of Sleep(1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Memory(1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dagon(1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Doom That Came to Sarnath(1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Statement of Randolph Carter(1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Street(1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nyarlathotep(1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family / The White Ape(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Terrible Old Man(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Nameless City(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ex Oblivione(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Picture in the House(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tree(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Herbert West: Reanimator(1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Celephais(1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Music of Erich Zann(1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What the Moon Brings(1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hypnos(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Under The Pyramids(1924)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hound(1924)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In the Vault(1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Temple(1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Festival(1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Moon-Bog(1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Outsider(1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Horror at Red Hook(1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Colour Out of Space(1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pickman's Model(1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Call of Cthulhu(1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cool Air(1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Silver Key(1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Strange High House in the Mist(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dreams in the Witch-House(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tree on the Hill (With: Duane W. Rimel)(1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From Beyond(1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Quest of Iranon(1935)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
At the Mountains of Madness(1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shadow Over Innsmouth(1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shadow Out of Time(1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Haunter of the Dark(1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shunned House(1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Thing on the Doorstep(1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lurking Fear / Cry Horror!(1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
History of the Necronomicon(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ibid(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Azathoth(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Descendant(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Evil Clergyman(1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Very Old Folk(1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sweet Ermengarde(1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Transition of Juan Romero(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Peabody Heritage(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Glass Bottle(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Secret Cave(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Old Bugs(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mysterious Ship(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rats in the Walls(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dunwich Horror(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tomb(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
He(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Whisperer in Darkness(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Polaris(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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 (With: August Derleth)(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 (With: August Derleth)(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 (With: C.J. Henderson)(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
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre(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 (With: Stephen Jones)(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 (With: Ben Baldwin,William Meikle,Luke Spooner,Monique Snyman)(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 (With: Joe R. Lansdale)(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 (With: Willis Conover)(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 (With: Robert E. Howard)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Shadows Over Innsmouth Books

Shadows Over Innsmouth (By: Stephen Jones)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth (By: Hugh B. Cave,Stephen Jones)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of August Derleth's "Posthumous Collaborations" Books

(with August Derleth)

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (By: August Derleth)(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Watchers Out of Time (With: August Derleth)(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Creepy Comics Books

Creepy Comics #1 (By: Bernie Wrightson)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #2 (By: Russ Heath,Mike Baron,Angelo Torres,Greg Ruth,Dave Sims,Joe Harris,Rahsan Ekedal,Jason Shawn Alexander,Dan Braun,Nathan Fox,JoeR. Lansdale)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #3 (By: Gene Colan,Dennis Calero,Greg Scott,Doug Moench,Angelo Torres,Cody Goodfellow,Nicola Cuti,Joe Harris,Jason Shawn Alexander,Dan Braun,Ken Barr,Craig Haffner,Kevin Ferrara)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #4 (By: Bill Morrison,Otto Binder,Dan Braun,Craig Haffner)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #5 (By: Timothy Truman,Gene Colan,Doug Moench,Mike Vosburg,David Lapham,Benjamin Truman,Dan Braun,Lucas Marangon)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #6 (By: Archie Goodwin,Neal Adams,Garry Brown,Jason Shawn Alexander,Dan Braun,Alice Henderson,Nathan Fox,Kevin Ferrara,JoeR. Lansdale,Christopher Taylor)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #7 (By: Archie Goodwin,Steve Ditko,Bill Morrison,Keith Lansdale,Patric Reynolds,Steve Skeates,Wilfredo Torres,Dan Braun,Aaron Conley,Martin Salvador,JoeR. Lansdale,Guus Floor)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #8 (By: Bernie Wrightson)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #9 (By: Richard Corben,Bruce Jones,Kelley Jones,Doselle Young,Doug Moench,Dean Ormston,Peter Bagge,Dan Braun,Emily Carroll)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #10 (With: Richard Corben,Darick Robertson,John Arcudi,Doug Moench,Troy Nixey,Peter Bagge,Dan Braun,Jim Keegan,Ruth Keegan,Franchesco,Bob Jenney,Richard P. Clark)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #11 (By: Gilbert Hernández,Alisa Kwitney,Jamie S. Rich,Peter Bagge,J. Torres,Dan Braun)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #12 : Creepy Comics; Volume 1 (By: Archie Goodwin,Steve Ditko,Richard Corben,John Arcudi,Mike Mignola,Ron Marz,Peter Bagge,Julian Totino Tedesco,Dan Braun,Richard P. Clark,Matthew Allison)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #13 (By: Archie Goodwin,Matt Wagner,Cullen Bunn,Reed Crandall,Dean Haspiel,Peter Bagge,Dan Braun,Lukas Ketner,Tyler Crook,Josh Simmons,D.W. Frydendall)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #14 (By: Tim Seeley,Tomm Coker,Ray Fawkes,Matthew Southworth,Ernie Colón,Peter Bagge,Dan Braun,Bill Parente)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #15 (By: Mike Norton,Bruce Jones,Bruce Timm,Doug Moench,Peter Bagge,Ramon Torrents,Henrik Jonsson,Dan Braun,Alex de Campi,Dave Stokes)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #16 (By: Ted Naifeh,Peter Bagge,Rachel Autumn Deering,Vanesa R. Del Rey)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #17 (By: Paul Tobin,Juan Ferreyra,Peter Bagge,J. Torres,Dan Braun,Ron Salas)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #18 (By: Len Wein,Fred Van Lente,Peter Bagge,Corinna Bechko,Dan Braun)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #19 : Creepy Comics; Volume 1 (By: Attila Futaki,Peter Bagge,Ivan Cohen,Dan Braun,Gary Kaufman,Richard P. Clark,Sandra Lanz)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #20 (By: Richard Corben,Matthew Southworth,Kelly Thompson,Ramón F. Bachs,Jan Strnad,Peter Bagge,Dan Braun,Vasilis Lolos)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #21 (By: Archie Goodwin,Gene Colan,Jeff Parker,Sandy Jarrell,Peter Bagge,Dan Braun,Karim Friha,Sandra Lanz,Vera Greentea)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #22 (By: Alex de Campi)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #23 (By: Andrea Mutti,Peter Bagge,Jai Nitz,Dan Braun,Federico De Luca,Rachel Deering,Joshua Boulet)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creepy Comics #24 (By: Richard Corben,Glenn Fabry,Peter Bagge,Dan Braun,Ricardo Cabral,Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein,Tony Guaraldi-Brown)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of New Annotated Lovecraft Books

(with Leslie Klinger)

The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft (With: Leslie Klinger)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (With: Leslie Klinger)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Weird Tales Books

Weird Tales 1 (By: Lin Carter)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Tales 2 (With: Robert Bloch,Tanith Lee,Robert E. Howard)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Tales 3 (By: Robert Bloch,Tanith Lee,Robert E. Howard,Evangeline Walton)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Tales 4 (By: Ray Bradbury,Robert E. Howard)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Anthologies

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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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