H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA on August 20th, 1890 and passed away at the age of 46 on March 15th, 1937.

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H.P. Lovecraft Stats: The highest rated book by H.P. Lovecraft on Book Notification is The Call of Cthulhu, a Novella. The second-highest rated book is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a Standalone novel.

The most read book by H.P. Lovecraft on Book Notification is The Call of Cthulhu, a Novella. The second most read book is The Call of Cthulhu, a Novella.

Below is a complete list of H.P. Lovecraft books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Dream Cycle Books in Publication Order

List of Randolph Carter Books in Publication Order (by with Jason Thompson)

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
10
The Alchemist
1916
2
6
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
1917
3
10
The Beast in the Cave
1918
4
10
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
1919
5
6
Memory
1919
6
10
Dagon
1919
7
10
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
1920
8
6
The Statement of Randolph Carter
1920
9
8
The Street
1920
10
8
Nyarlathotep
1920
11
8
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family / The White Ape
1921
12
6
The Terrible Old Man
1921
13
8
The Nameless City
1921
14
8
Ex Oblivione
1921
15
6
The Picture in the House
1921
16
8
The Tree
1921
17
8
Herbert West: Reanimator
1922
18
10
Celephais
1922
19
6
The Music of Erich Zann
1922
20
4
What the Moon Brings
1922
21
6
Hypnos
1923
22
4
Under The Pyramids
1924
23
6
The Hound
1924
24
6
In the Vault
1925
25
6
The Temple
1925
26
9
The Festival
1925
27
6
The Moon-Bog
1926
28
6
The Outsider
1926
29
8
The Horror at Red Hook
1927
30
10
The Colour Out of Space
1927
31
6
Pickman's Model
1927
32
10
The Call of Cthulhu
1928
33
10
Cool Air
1928
34
6
The Silver Key
1929
35
6
The Strange High House in the Mist
1931
36
8
Dreams in the Witch-House
1933
37
The Tree on the Hill (With: Duane W. Rimel)
The Tree on the Hill (With: Duane W. Rimel)
1934
38
8
From Beyond
1934
39
6
The Quest of Iranon
1935
40
10
At the Mountains of Madness
1936
41
7.7
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
1936
42
9
The Shadow Out of Time
1936
43
9
The Haunter of the Dark
1936
44
8
The Shunned House
1937
45
7
The Thing on the Doorstep
1937
46
6
The Lurking Fear / Cry Horror!
1937
47
8
History of the Necronomicon
1938
48
6
Ibid
1938
49
10
Azathoth
1938
50
10
The Book
1938
51
10
The Descendant
1938
52
8
The Evil Clergyman
1939
53
4
The Very Old Folk
1940
54
4
Sweet Ermengarde
1943
55
4
The Transition of Juan Romero
1944
56
The Peabody Heritage
1957
57
6
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard
1959
58
8
The Little Glass Bottle
1959
59
6
The Secret Cave
1959
60
2
Old Bugs
1959
61
6
The Mysterious Ship
1959
62
8
The Rats in the Walls
2017
63
9
The Dunwich Horror
2017
64
4
The Tomb
2017
65
6
He
2017
66
7
The Whisperer in Darkness
2020
67
6
Polaris
2020

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems
1920
2
The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories
1920
3
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
1923
4
The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag
1923
5
7
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
1926
6
10
Necronomicon (With: Colin Wilson)
Necronomicon (With: Colin Wilson)
1930
7
10
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
1931
8
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
1935
9
10
The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales
1935
10
The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories Of Horror
1936
11
The Outsider and Others
1939
12
The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of the Supernatural
1944
13
8
The Dunwich Horror and Others
1945
14
The Lurker at the Threshold
1945
15
Something About Cats and Other Pieces
1949
16
The Survivor and Others (With: August Derleth)
The Survivor and Others (With: August Derleth)
1957
17
Dreams and Fancies
1962
18
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
1965
19
The Shadow Out Of Time and Other Tales of Horror
1968
20
The Watchers Out of Time (With: August Derleth)
The Watchers Out of Time (With: August Derleth)
1974
21
The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror
1977
22
The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft
1983
23
10
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories
2004
24
Shadows of Death
2005
25
The Tales of Inspector Legrasse (With: C.J. Henderson)
2005
26
H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction
2008
27
At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird Tales
2009
28
The Crawling Chaos and Others
2011
29
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
2011
30
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Works of Weird Fiction
2011
31
Weird Poems (With: Stephen Jones)
2015
32
The Lurking Fear and More Stories
2018
33
Beyond the Wall of Sleep and Other Strange Tales
2018
34
Dagon Rising (With: Ben Baldwin, William Meikle, Luke Spooner, Monique Snyman)
Dagon Rising (With: Ben Baldwin, William Meikle, Luke Spooner, Monique Snyman)
2019
35
Marginalia
2020
36
The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales
2020
37
10
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
2020
38
9
The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
2021
39
The Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors
2021
40
Tales of Cosmic Terror
2023

List of Graphic Novels in Publication Order

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Supernatural Horror in Literature
1927
2
Lovecraft at Last: The Master of Horror in His Own Words (With: Willis Conover)
1927
3
Selected Letters I, 1911-1924
1964
4
Selected Letters II, 1925-1929
1965
5
Selected Letters III, 1929-1931
1971
6
Selected Letters IV, 1932-1934
1976
7
Selected Letters V, 1934-1937
1976
8
Uncollected Letters
1986
9
Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H.P. Lovecraft
1987
10
Letters to Henry Kuttner
1991
11
Letters to Richard F. Searight
1992
12
Letters to Robert Bloch
1993
13
Letters to Samuel Loveman & Vincent Starrett
1994
14
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft
1996
15
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
1997
16
More Annotated Lovecraft
1999
17
Lord of a Visible World
2000
18
Letters to Alfred Galpin
2002
19
Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei
2002
20
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 1: Amateur Journalism
2004
21
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 2: Literary Criticism
2004
22
Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner
2005
23
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 3: Science
2005
24
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 4: Travel
2005
25
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany
2006
26
Creeping Dementia
2007
27
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre
2007
28
Collected Essays
2008
29
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 1
2009
30
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 2
2009
31
Letters to James F. Morton
2011
32
Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw
2014
33
Letters to Robert Bloch and Others
2015
34
Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White
2016
35
Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome
2016
36
A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (With: Robert E. Howard)
2017

List of Shadows Over Innsmouth Books in Publication Order

List of August Derleth's "Posthumous Collaborations" Books in Publication Order (with August Derleth)

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (By: August Derleth)
1959
2
The Watchers Out of Time (With: August Derleth)
The Watchers Out of Time (With: August Derleth)
1974
3
The Watchers Out of Time (By: August Derleth)
The Watchers Out of Time (By: August Derleth)
1974
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List of New Annotated Lovecraft Books in Publication Order (with Leslie Klinger)

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft (With: Leslie Klinger)
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft (With: Leslie Klinger)
2014
2
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (By: Leslie Klinger)
2019
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List of Weird Tales Books in Publication Order (with Robert Bloch, with Ray Bradbury, with Tanith Lee, with Robert E. Howard, with Lin Carter, with Evangeline Walton)

List of H.P. Lovecraft Anthologies in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Swords & Sorcery
1963
2
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1
1969
3
Summoned From The Tomb
1973
4
Sea Tales of Terror
1974
5
Beyond Midnight
1976
6
Weird Legacies
1977
7
65 Great Spine Chillers
1982
8
Great Fantasy
1983
9
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader
1987
10
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats
1988
11
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
1992
12
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror
1993
13
The Giant Book of Zombies
1993
14
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
1993
15
The Mammoth Book of Zombies
1993
16
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories
1993
17
100 Wild Little Weird Tales
1994
18
The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft
1994
19
Sea-Cursed
1994
20
Shadows Over Innsmouth
1994
21
The Necronomicon
1996
22
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares
1997
23
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters
2002
24
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
2005
25
Brooklyn Noir 2
2005
26
Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V
2006
27
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
2006
28
Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction
2007
29
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad
2008
30
Dancing with the Dark
2009
31
The Horror in the Museum
2009
32
The Dead That Walk
2009
33
Eerie Archives, Vol. 3
2010
34
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within
2010
35
50 Classic Novellas
2011
36
Horror for the Holidays
2011
37
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
2012
38
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack
2012
39
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth
2013
40
Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead
2013
41
Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification
2013
42
The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction
2013
43
The Baen Big Book of Monsters
2014
44
Red Sky
2014
45
Fossil Lake II
2015
46
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories
2015
47
Legacy of the Reanimator
2015
48
Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve
2015
49
Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats
2017
50
Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar
2017
51
Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep
2018
52
Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches
2018
53
The Weird Fiction Collection #1
2018
54
What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween
2018
55
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3
2019
56
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die
2019
57
Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection
2020
58
Thoughts and Pictures
2020
59
Classic Cat Stories
2020
60
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle
2020
61
Wonder and Glory Forever
2020
62
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror
2021
63
The Colour Out of Deathlehem
2021
64
Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection
2023
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H.P. Lovecraft: Biography

H.P. Lovecraft (Howard Phillips Lovecraft) was born on August 20th, 1890. H.P. passed away March 15th, 1937 at 46 years old. H.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

H.P. Lovecraft was the author of the H.P. Lovecraft Short Stories/Novellas series which consists of 67 novels. The H.P. Lovecraft Short Stories/Novellas series started in 1916 with the novel The Alchemist. The most recently released novel in the H.P. Lovecraft Short Stories/Novellas series was Polaris which was released in 2020. There are no upcoming novels for the H.P. Lovecraft Short Stories/Novellas series.

H.P. Lovecraft (Howard Phillips Lovecraft) also wrote the Short Story Collections series which has 40 books including Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems and The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories.

H.P. Lovecraft: Awards & Accolades

H.P. Lovecraft books have been nominated for multiple awards, Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, Best Anthology, in 2008. The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was nominated for the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, in 2014.

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  1. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
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  3. Neil Gaiman, author of the American Gods Series.
  4. Terry Pratchett, author of the novel: Good Omens.
  5. George R.R. Martin, author of the A Song Of Ice and Fire Series.

H.P. Lovecraft: F.A.Q

When was H.P. Lovecraft Born?

H.P. Lovecraft was born on August 20th, 1890.

When did H.P. Lovecraft die?

H.P. Lovecraft died on March 15th, 1937 at 46 years old.

Where was H.P. Lovecraft Born?

H.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

What was the first book H.P. Lovecraft wrote?

The first novel written by H.P. Lovecraft was The Alchemist, published in 1916.

What was the most recent book H.P. Lovecraft wrote?

His most recently released work was Tales of Cosmic Terror on April 4th, 2023.

How many books has H.P. Lovecraft written?

H.P. Lovecraft has written 154 books across 14 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 5 books in the Dream Cycle Series
  • 1 book in the Randolph Carter Series
  • 1 Standalone Novels
  • 67 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 40 Short Story Collections
  • 2 Graphic Novels
  • 36 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the August Derleth's "Posthumous Collaborations" Series
  • 1 book in the New Annotated Lovecraft Series
  • 1 book in the Weird Tales Series

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