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 Standalone Novels
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (1943) |
  
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Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag | (1923) |
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| At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror | (1936) |
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| The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror | (1936) |
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| The Shunned House | (1938) |
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| The Outsider and Others | (1939) |
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| Beyond the Wall of Sleep | (1943) |
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| Marginalia | (1944) |
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| The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of the Supernatural | (1944) |
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| Best Supernatural Stories of H.P. Lovecraft | (1945) |
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| The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales | (1945) |
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| The Lurker at the Threshold | (1945) |
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| The Lurking Fear and Other Stories | (1947) |
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| Something About Cats and Other Pieces | (1949) |
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| The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror | (1950) |
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| The Survivor and Others | (1957) |
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| Dreams and Fancies | (1962) |
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| The Colour Out of Space | (1963) |
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| Dagon and Other Macabre Tales | (1965) |
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| The Shadow Out of Time and Other Tales of Horror | (1968) |
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| The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | (1970) |
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| The Doom That Came to Sarnath | (1971) |
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| The Watchers Out of Time | (1974) |
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| Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre | (1982) |
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| Dreams of Terror and Death | (1987) |
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| The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories | (1989) |
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| Crawling Chaos and Others | (1992) |
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| The Road to Madness | (1996) |
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| Tales of H.P. Lovecraft | (1997) |
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| Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft | (2001) |
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| The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories | (2004) |
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| The Tales of Inspector Legrasse | (2005) |
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| Necronomicon: The Best Weird Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft | (2008) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
| Thoughts and Pictures | (1932) |
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Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) |
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| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | (2013) |
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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Supernatural Horror in Literature | (1927) |
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| Lovecraft at Last: The Master of Horror in His Own Words | (1975) |
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| Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 | (1965) |
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| Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 | (1968) |
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| Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 | (1971) |
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| Selected Letters IV, 1932-1934 | (1976) |
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| Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 | (1976) |
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| Uncollected Letters | (1986) |
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| Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H.P. Lovecraft | (1987) |
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| Letters to Henry Kuttner | (1991) |
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| Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters | (2000) |
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| Letters to Alfred Galpin | (2002) |
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| Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei | (2002) |
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| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Literary Criticism | (2004) |
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| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Amateur Journalism | (2004) |
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| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Science | (2005) |
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| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Travel | (2005) |
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| Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner | (2005) |
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| Letters from New York | (2005) |
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| Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany | (2006) |
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| Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Volume 1 | (2009) |
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| Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Volume 2 | (2009) |
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| A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard | (2011) |
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| Letters to James F. Morton | (2011) |
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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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