The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

As the centerpiece of this project, I wanted to read Lovecraft’s solo fiction in chronological order, in order to gain an appreciation of his development as a writer, and his use of cosmic horror in particular. Because he was such a prolific ghostwriter, his collaborations were a natural next step. And, while poetry is generally outside the scope of this project, enough of HPL’s poems deal with cosmic dread to warrant including a short collection here. Finally, it seemed appropriate to end on the long essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, which not only provides insight into HPL’s views on horror generally, but serves as a good introduction into the works of other weird/horror writers of the time.

Juvenilia

• The Little Glass Bottle
• The Secret Cave
• The Mystery of the Grave-Yard
• The Mysterious Ship (Long Version)
• The Mysterious Ship (Short Version)
• The Beast in the Cave
• The Alchemist

Primary Fiction

• The Tomb
• Dagon
• A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Sweet Ermengarde
• Polaris
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep
• Memory
• Old Bugs
• The Transition of Juan Romero
• The White Ship
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath
• The Statement of Randolph Carter
• The Terrible Old Man
• The Tree
• The Cats of Ulthar
• The Temple
• Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
• The Street
• Celephaïs
• From Beyond
• Nyarlathotep
• The Picture in the House
• Ex Oblivione
• The Nameless City
• The Quest of Iranon
• The Moon-Bog
• The Outsider
• The Other Gods
• The Music of Erich Zann
• Herbert West—Reanimator
• Hypnos
• What the Moon Brings
• Azathoth
• The Hound
• The Lurking Fear
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Unnamable
• The Festival
• The Shunned House
• The Horror at Red Hook
• He
• In the Vault
• The Descendant
• Cool Air
• The Call of Cthulhu
• Pickman’s Model
• The Silver Key
• The Strange High House in the Mist
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Colour out of Space
• The Very Old Folk
• A History of the Necronomicon
• Ibid
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• At the Mountains of Madness
• Discarded Draft of the Shadow Over Innsmouth
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• The Dreams in the Witch House
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Evil Clergyman
• The Book
• The Shadow Out of Time
• The Haunter of the Dark

Collaborations

Winifred V. Jackson

• The Green Meadow
• The Crawling Chaos

Anna Helen Crofts

• Poetry and the Gods

Sonia Haft Greene

• Four O’Clock (questionable)
• The Horror at Martin’s Beach

Harry Houdini

• Under the Pyramids

Wilfred Blanch Talman

• Two Black Bottles

J. Chapman Miske

• The Thing in the Moonlight (questionable)

Adolphe de Castro

• The Last Test
• The Electric Executioner

Zealia Bishop

• The Curse of Yig
• The Mound
• Medusa’s Coil

Henry Whitehead

• The Trap
• Bothon (questionable)

C. M. Eddy, Jr.

• The Loved Dead

Hazel Heald

• The Man of Stone
• Winged Death
• The Horror in the Museum
• Out of the Aeons
• The Horror in the Burying-Ground

Duane W. Rimel

• The Tree on the Hill
• The Sorcery of Aphlar
• The Disinterment

Robert H. Barlow

• The Slaying of the Monster (with R. H. Barlow; 1933)
• The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast (with R. H. Barlow; 1933)
• The Battle That Ended the Century
• “Till A’ the Seas” (with R. H. Barlow; 1935)
• Collapsing Cosmoses
• The Night Ocean (with R. H. Barlow; 1936)

E. Hoffman Price

• Tarbis of the Lake
• Through the Gates of the Silver Key

William Lumley

• The Diary of Alonzo Typer

Kenneth Sterling

• In the Walls of Eryx

Multiple Authors

• The Challenge from Beyond
  • I.   C. L. Moore
  • II.   A. Merritt
  • III.   H. P. Lovecraft
  • IV.   Robert E. Howard
  • V.   Frank Belknap Long

Poetry

• Life’s Mystery
• Nathicana
• Christmas Greetings
• Poemata Minora, Volume II
• On Receiving a Picture of Swans
• Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea
• An American to Mother England
• Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee
• The Rose of England
• The Poe-et’s Nightmare
• Fact and Fancy
• Pacifist War Song—1917
• A Garden
• The Peace Advocate
• Ode for July Fourth, 1917
• Nemesis
• Astrophobos
• Sunset
• Laeta; a Lament
• Psychopompos
• The Conscript
• Despair
• Revelation
• The House
• The City
• To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany
• The Nightmare Lake
• On Reading Lord Dunsany’s Book of Wonder
• Christmas
• Sir Thomas Tryout
• Waste Paper
• Providence
• The Cats
• Festival
• Hallowe’en in a Suburb
• The Wood
• The Outpost
• The Ancient Track
• The Messenger
• Fungi from Yuggoth
• Little Sam Perkins
• Dead Passion’s Flame
• Arcadia
• In a Sequester’d Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk’d
• To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures

Nonfiction

• Supernatural Horror in Literature