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H P Lovecraft

(Howard Phillips Lovecraft)

(1890 - 1937)

About H P Lovecraft

Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are 'At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror' (1964), 'Dagon and Other Macabre Tales' (1965), and 'The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions' (1970).

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft
The Road to Madness

Novels

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1943)

Collections

The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag (poems) (1923)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth: And Other Stories of Horror (1936)
At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Novels of Terror (1936)
The Shunned House (1938)
The Outsider and Others (1939)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943)
The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth: And Other Stories of the Supernatural (1944)
Marginalia (1944)
Best Supernatural Stories of H P Lovecraft (1945)
The Dunwich Horror: And Other Weird Tales (1945)
The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) (with August Derleth)
The Lurking Fear: And Other Stories (1947)
aka Cry Horror!
Something About Cats: And Other Pieces (1949)
The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Tales of Horror (1950)
The Survivor: And Others (1957) (with August Derleth)
Dreams and Fancies (1962)
The Colour Out of Space (1963)
Dagon: And Other Macabre Tales (1965)
Three Tales of Horror (1967)
The Shadow Out of Time: And Other Tales of Horror (1968)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1970)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1971)
The Watchers Out of Time (1974)
Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (1982)
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (1982)
The Dream Cycle of H P Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death (1987)
The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories (1989)
Crawling Chaos (1992)
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness (1996)
Tales of H P Lovecraft: Major Works Selected and Introduced by Joyce Carol Oates (1997)
Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works (poems) (2001)
Out of the Ordinary: The Commonplace Book and Other Writings (2002)
From the Pest Zone: Stories from New York (2003)
The Dreams in the Witch House: And Other Weird Stories (2004)
Horror Classics: Graphic Classics Volume Ten (2004) (with Edgar Allan Poe, Saki and Clark Ashton Smith)
The Tales of Inspector Legrasse (2005) (with C J Henderson)
The Necronomicon: The Best Weird Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (2008)

Anthologies edited

Thoughts and Pictures (1932)

Non fiction

Anthologies containing stories by H P Lovecraft

The Other Worlds (1941)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Night Side (1947)
The Other Side of the Moon (1949)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
New Worlds for Old (1953)
The 1st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959)
The Arrow Book of Horror Stories (1961)
Spine Chillers (1961)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Over the Edge (1964)
Best Horror Stories 2 (1965)
The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965)
Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
Medley Macabre (1966)
Famous Monster Tales (1967)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968)
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
Legends for the Dark (1968)
Eleven Great Horror Stories (1969)
A Man Called Poe (1969)
The Satanists (1969)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 2 (1969)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 1 (1969)
The Unspeakable People (1969)
The Horror in the Museum: And Other Tales (1970)
The Ghouls Book 2 (1971)
The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971)
The Undead (1971)
3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972)
Beware of the Cat (1972)
The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
The Devil's Children (1974)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
More of Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974)
Fear (1975)
The Rivals of Frankenstein (1975)
The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 1 (1976)
Realms of Wizardry (1976)
Tales of Unknown Horror (1976)
Weird Legacies (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Lost Worlds, Unknown Horizons (1978)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
The 13th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1980)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories (1983)
Haunted Houses: The Greatest Stories (1983)
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987)
Into the Mummy's Tomb (1989)
Between Time and Terror (1990)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Shadows of Fear (1992)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994)
Reel Future (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
The Dunwich Cycle (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Cthulhu Cycle (1996)
Blood Lines: Vampire Stories from New England (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
Vampires, Wine and Roses (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
Great Ghost Stories (1998)
The Innsmouth Cycle (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
The Reel Stuff (1998)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)

Short stories

	The Beast in the Cave (1905)
	The Alchemist (1908)
	Dagon (1917)
	The Tomb (1917)
	Polaris (1918)
	Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
	The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
	Memory (1919)
	The Picture in the House (1919)
	The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
	The White Ship (1919)
	Arthur Jermyn (1920)
	Calephais (1920)
	The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
	The Crawling Chaos (1920)
	From Beyond (1920)
	The Street (1920)
	The Temple (1920)
	The Terrible Old Man (1920)
	The Tree (1920)
	The White Ape (1920) aka Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
	Ex Oblivione (1921)
	The Moon-Bog (1921)
	The Nameless City (1921)
	The Other Gods (1921)
	The Outsider (1921)
	The Quest of Iranon (1921)
	Herbert West-Reanimator (1922)
	The Hound (1922)
	Hypnos (1922)
	The Music of Erich Zann (1922)
	The Festival (1923)
	The Unnamable (1923)
	What the Moon Brings (1923)
	Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (1924)
	The Loved Dead (1924)
	The Rats in the Walls (1924)
	He (1925)
	In the Vault (1925)
	The Horror at Red Hook (1926)
	The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
	The Colour Out of Space (1927)
	The Horror in Clay (1927)
	The Lurking Fear (1927)
	The Madness from the Sea (1927)
	Pickman's Mode (1927)
	Pickman's Model (1927)
	The Tale of Inspector Legrasse (1927)
	The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
	Cool Air (1928)
	The Shunned House (1928)
	The Dunwich Horror (1929)
	At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
	Nyarlathotep (1931)
	The Whisperer in Darkness (1931)
	The Man of Stone (1932) (with Hazel Heald)
	The Dreams in the Witch-House (1933)
	The Horror in the Museum (1933)
	The Challenge from Beyond (1935)
	In the Walls of Eryx (1935)
	The Haunter of the Dark (1936)
	The Shadow Out of Time (1936)
	The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)
	The Evil Clergyman (1937)
	The Silver Key (1937)
	The Thing on the Doorstep (1937)
	The Survivor (1954) (with August Derleth)
	The Ancestor (1957) (with August Derleth)
	The Shuttered Room (1959) (with August Derleth)
	Azathoth (1965)
	The Book (1965)
	The Descendant (1965)
	Poetry and the Gods (1965)
	The Thing in the Moonlight (1965)
	Witch House (1965)
	The Dark Brotherhood (1966) (with August Derleth)
	The Black Tome of Alsophocus (1980) (with Martin S Warnes)
	Monster of Terror
	Nathicana
	The Shadow in the Attic
	Witches' Hollow

Books about H P Lovecraft

Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos (1972) by Lin Carter
Lovecraft in the Cinema (1975) by Darrell Schweitzer
Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side (1975) by Frank Belknap Long
H. P. Lovecraft: A biography (1975) by L Sprague de Camp
Essays Lovecraftian (1976) by Darrell Schweitzer
The Dream Quest of H.P. Lovecraft (1978) by Darrell Schweitzer
H P Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (1981) by S T Joshi
Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic (1988) by Maurice Levy
An Index to the Selected Letters of H.P. Lovecraft (1991) by S T Joshi
A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft (1996) by S T Joshi
The Lovecraft Lexicon (1997) by Anthony Pearsall
H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (1999) by Michel Houellebecq
The Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft (2000) by Andrew Migliore and John Strysik
The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography (2001) by Charles P Mitchell
Lovecraft's Library: a Catalogue (2002) by S T Joshi
H.P. Lovecraft: Master of Weird Fiction (2003) by William Schoell
Primal Sources: Essays on H. P. Lovecraft (2003) by S T Joshi
Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark (2004) by S T Joshi and Ben J S Szumskyj
An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia (2004) by S T Joshi and David E Schultz

H P Lovecraft recommends

The Frozen Pirate (1887) W Clark Russell "I read it in my youth - and was utterly fascinated by it... writing several yarns of my own under its influence."	The Gods of Pegana (1905) Lord Dunsany "Dunsany stands dedicated to strange and lovely worlds of fantastic beauty. To the truly imaginative he is a talisman and a key unlocking rich store houses of dreams."	The Boats of the Glen Carrig (1907) William Hope Hodgson "Few can equal Hodgson...in "Glen Carrig" there is vast power in the suggestion of lurking worlds and beings behind the ordinary surface of life."
The House on the Borderland (1908) William Hope Hodgson "Authentic gooseflesh."	The Night Land: A Love Tale (1912) William Hope Hodgson "The Night Land is a tale of the remote future - billions of years after the death of the sun. It is one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.."	Fifty-One Tales (1915) Lord Dunsany "[Dunsany's] rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature."
The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) Lord Dunsany "No amount of mere description can convey more than a fraction of Lord Dunsany's pervasive charm."	The Double Shadow: And Other Fantasies (1933) Clark Ashton Smith "None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer."	The Black Flame (1939) Stanley G Weinbaum "Somehow [Weinbaum] had the imagination to envisage wholly alien situations and psychologies and entities, to devise consistent events from wholly alien motives and to refrain from the cheap dramatics in which all adventure-pulpists wallow. "
A Martian Odyssey: And Other Classics of Science Fiction (1962) Stanley G Weinbaum "The imagination to envisage wholly alien situations and psychologies and entities, to devise consistent events from wholly alien motives ... a light touch - and genuine suspense..."	For the Blood Is the Life: And Other Stories (1996) F Marion Crawford "Crawford's weird Masterpiece is one of the most tremendous horror stories in all literature."

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