H. P. Lovecraft bibliography
This is a complete list of works by H. P. Lovecraft. Dates for the fiction, collaborations and juvenilia are in the format: composition date / first publication date, taken from An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia by S. T. Joshi and D. E. Schultz, Hippocampus Press, New York, 2001. For other sections, dates are the time of composition, not publication. Many of these works can be.
Fiction
Collaborations, revisions, and ghost writing
Works by August Derleth related to H. P. Lovecraft's works and notes
While put forward as posthumous collaborations while Derleth was alive, the status of these works as collaborations with Lovecraft was swiftly disputed after his death. Subsequent critics consider them part of the Cthulhu Mythos, but often split this into the original "Lovecraft Mythos" and the later and lesser "Derleth Mythos".Unknown authorship
- The Inevitable Conflict. This was published in Amazing Stories under the name P. H. Lovering. A variety of evidence, including statistical analysis of the writing structure, has been put forward to suggest that Lovecraft was not the author.
Juvenilia
Poetry
Lovecraft's complete poetry is collected in S.T. Joshi, The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft.- The Poem of Ulysses, or The Odyssey
- Ovid's Metamorphoses
- H. Lovecraft's Attempted Journey betwixt Providence & Fall River on the N.Y.N.H. & H.R.R.
- Poemata Minora, Volume II
- * Ode to Selene or Diana
- * To the Old Pagan Religion
- * On the Ruin of Rome
- * To Pan
- * On the Vanity of Human Ambition
- C.S.A. 1861-1865: To the Starry Cross of the SOUTH
- De Triumpho Naturae
- The Members of the Men's Club of the First Universalist Church of Providence, R.I., to Its President, About to Leave for Florida on Account of His Health
- To His Mother on Thanksgiving
- To Mr. Terhune, on His Historical Fiction
- Providence in 2000 A.D.
- New-England Fallen
- On the Creation of Niggers
- Fragment on Whitman
- On Robert Browning
- On a New-England Village Seen by Moonlight
- Quinsnicket Park
- To Mr. Munroe, on His Instructive and Entertaining Account of Switzerland
- Ad Criticos
- Frusta Praemunitus
- De Scriptore Mulieroso
- To General Villa
- On a Modern Lothario
- The End of the Jackson War
- To the Members of the Pin-Feathers on the Merits of Their Organisation, and of Their New Publication, The Pinfeather
- To the Rev. James Pyke
- To an Accomplished Young Gentlewoman on Her Birthday, Decr. 2, 1914
- Regner Lodbrog's Epicedium
- The Power of Wine: A Satire
- The Teuton's Battle-Song
- New England
- Gryphus in Asinum Mutatus
- To the Members of the United Amateur Press Association from the Providence Amateur Press Club
- March
- 1914
- The Simple Speller's Tale
- On Slang
- An Elegy on Franklin Chase Clark, M.D.
- The Bay-Stater's Policy
- The Crime of Crimes
- Ye Ballade of Patrick von Flynn
- The Issacsonio-Mortoniad
- On Receiving a Picture of Swans
- Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea
- On "Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea"
- To Charlie of the Comics
- Gems from in a Minor Key
- The State of Poetry
- The Magazine Poet
- A Mississippi Autumn
- On the Cowboys of the West
- To Samuel Loveman, Esquire, on His Poetry and Drama, Written in the Elizabethan Style
- An American to Mother England
- The Bookstall
- A Rural Summer Eve
- To the Late John H. Fowler, Esq.
- R. Kleiner, Laureatus, in Heliconem
- Temperance Song
- Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee
- Content
- My Lost Love
- The Beauties of Peace
- The Smile
- Epitaph on ye Letterr Rrr........
- The Dead Bookworm
- On Phillips Gamwell
- Inspiration
- Respite
- The Rose of England
- The Unknown
- Ad Balneum
- On Kelso the Poet
- Providence Amateur Press Club to the Athenaeum Club of Journalism
- Brotherhood
- Brumalia
- The Poe-et's Nightmare
- Futurist Art
- On Receiving a Picture of the Marshes of Ipswich
- The Rutted Road
- An Elegy on Phillips Gamwell, Esq.
- Lines on Graduation from the R.I. Hospital's School of Nurses
- Fact and Fancy
- The Nymph's Reply to the Modern Business Man
- Pacifist War Song—1917
- Percival Lowell
- To Mr. Lockhart, on His Poetry
- Britannia Victura
- Spring
- A Garden
- Sonnet on Myself
- April
- Iterum Conjunctae
- The Peace Advocate
- To Greece, 1917
- On Receiving a Picture of ye Towne of Templeton, in the Colonie of Massachusetts-Bay, with Mount Monadnock, in New-Hampshire, Shown in the Distance
- The Poet of Passion
- Earth and Sky
- Ode for July Fourth, 1917
- On the Death of a Rhyming Critic
- Prologue to "Fragments from an Hour of Inspiration" by Jonathan E. Hoag
- To M.W.M.
- To the Incomparable Clorinda
- To Saccharissa, Fairest of Her Sex
- To Rhodoclia—Peerless among Maidens
- To Belinda, Favourite of the Graces
- To Heliodora—Sister of Cytheraea
- To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema
- An American to the British Flag
- Autumn
- Nemesis
- Astrophobos
- Lines on the 25th. Anniversary of the Providence Evening News, 1892-1917
- Sunset
- Old Christmas
- To the Arcadian
- To the Nurses of the Red Cross
- The Introduction
- A Summer Sunset and Evening
- A Winter Wish
- Laeta; a Lament
- To Jonathan E. Hoag, Esq.
- The Volunteer
- Ad Britannos—1918
- Ver Rusticum
- To Mr. Kleiner, on Receiving from Him the Poetical Works of Addison, Gay, and Somerville
- A Pastoral Tragedy of Appleton, Wisconsin
- On a Battlefield in Picardy
- Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
- A June Afternoon
- The Spirit of Summer
- Grace
- The Link
- To Alan Seeger
- August
- Damon and Delia, a Pastoral
- Phaeton
- To Arthur Goodenough, Esq.
- Hellas
- To Delia, Avoiding Damon
- Alfredo; a Tragedy
- The Eidolon
- Monos: An Ode
- Germania—1918
- To Col. Linkaby Didd
- Ambition
- A Cycle of Verse
- * Oceanus
- * Clouds
- * Mother Earth
- To the Eighth of November
- To the A.H.S.P.C., on Receipt of the Christmas Pippin
- The Conscript
- Greetings
- Theodore Roosevelt
- To Maj.-Gen. Omar Bundy, U.S.A.
- To Jonathan Hoag, Esq.
- Despair
- In Memoriam: J.E.T.D.
- Revelation
- April Dawn
- Amissa Minerva
- Damon: A Monody
- Hylas and Myrrha: A Tale
- North and South Britons
- To the A.H.S.P.C., on Receipt of the May Pippin
- Helene Hoffman Cole: 1893-1919
- John Oldham: A Defence
- On Prohibition
- Myrrha and Strephon
- The House
- Monody on the Late King Alcohol
- The Pensive Swain
- The City
- Oct 17, 1919
- On Collaboration
- To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany
- Wisdom
- Birthday Lines to Margfred Galbraham
- The Nightmare Lake
- Bells
- January
- To Phillis
- Tryout's Lament for the Vanished Spider
- Ad Scribam
- On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder
- To a Dreamer
- Cindy: Scrub Lady in a State Street Skyscraper
- The Poet's Rash Excuse
- With a Copy of Wilde's Fairy Tales
- Ex-Poet's Reply
- To Two Epgephi
- On Religion
- The Voice
- On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park
- The Dream
- October 1
- To S.S.L.—Oct 17, 1920
- Christmas
- To Alfred Galpin, Esq.
- Theobaldian Aestivation
- S.S.L.: Christmas 1920
- On Receiving a Portraiture of Mrs. Berkeley, ye Poetess
- The Prophecy of Capys Secundus
- To a Youth
- To Mr. Hoag
- The Pathetick History of Sir Wilful Wildrake
- On the Return of Maurice Winter Moe, Esq., to the Pedagogical Profession
- Medusa: A Portrait
- To Mr. Galpin
- Sir Thomas Tryout
- On a Poet's Ninety-first Birthday
- Simplicity: A Poem
- To Saml: Loveman, Gent.
- Plaster-All
- To Zara
- To Damon
- Waste Paper
- To Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq.
- Chloris and Damon
- To Mr. Hoag
- To Endymion
- The Feast
- On Marblehead
- To Mr. Baldwin, on Receiving a Picture of Him in a Rural Bower
- Lines for Poets' Night at the Scribblers' Club
- On a Scene in Rural Rhode Island
- Damon and Lycë
- To Mr. Hoag
- On the Pyramids
- Stanzas on Samarkand I-III
- Providence
- On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams
- Solstice
- To Saml Loveman, Esq.
- To George Kirk, Esq.
- My Favourite Character
- On the Double-R Coffee House
- To Mr. Hoag
- The Cats
- On Rheinhart Kleiner Being Hit by an Automobile
- To Xanthippe, on Her Birthday—March 16, 1925
- Primavera
- To Frank Belknap Long on His Birthday
- A Year Off
- To an Infant
- On a Politician
- On a Room for Rent
- October 2
- To George Willard Kirk, Gent., of Chelsea-Village, in New-York, upon His Birthday, Novr. 25, 1925
- On Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene
- Festival
- To Jonathan Hoag
- Hallowe'en in a Suburb
- In Memoriam: Oscar Incoul Verelst of Manhattan: 1920-1926
- The Return
- Εις Σφιγγην
- Hedone
- To Miss Beryl Hoyt
- To Jonathan E. Hoag, Esq.
- On J.F. Roy Erford
- On Ambrose Bierce
- On Cheating the Post Office
- On Newport, Rhode Island
- The Absent Leader
- Ave atque Vale
- To a Sophisticated Young Gentleman
- The Wood
- An Epistle to the Rt. Honble Maurce Winter Moe, Esq.
- Stanzas on Samarkand IV
- Lines upon the Magnates of the Pulp
- The Outpost
- The Ancient Track
- The Messenger
- The East India Brick Row
- The Fungi From Yuggoth
- * I. The Book
- * II. Pursuit
- * III. The Key
- * IV. Recognition
- * V. Homecoming
- * VI. The Lamp
- * VII. Zaman's Hill
- * VIII. The Port
- * IX. The Courtyard
- * X. The Pigeon-Flyers
- * XI. The Well
- * XII. The Howler
- * XIII. Hesperia
- * XIV. Star-Winds
- * XV. Antarktos
- * XVI. The Window
- * XVII. A Memory
- * XVIII. The Gardens of Yin
- * XIX. The Bells
- * XX. Night-Gaunts
- * XXI. Nyarlathotep
- * XXII. Azathoth
- * XXIII. Mirage
- * XXIV. The Canal
- * XXV. St. Toad's
- * XXVI. The Familiars
- * XXVII. The Elder Pharos
- * XXVIII. Expectancy
- * XXIX. Nostalgia
- * XXX. Background
- * XXXI. The Dweller
- * XXXII. Alienation
- * XXXIII. Harbour Whistles
- * XXXIV. Recapture
- * XXXV. Evening Star
- * XXXVI. Continuity
- Veteropinguis Redivivus
- To a Young Poet in Dunedin
- * FUNGI from YUGGOTH, 6.Nyarlathotep and 7. Azathoth. Verses printed in Jan. 1931 WEIRD TALES.
- On an Unspoil'd Rural Prospect
- Bouts Rimés
- * Beyond Zimbabwe
- * The White Elephant
- Anthem of the Kappa Alpha Tau
- Edith Miniter
- Little Sam Perkins
- Metrical Example
- Dead Passion's Flame
- Arcadia
- Lullaby for the Dionne Quintuplets
- The Odes of Horace: Book III, IX
- In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd
- To Mr. Finlay, upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God"
- To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures
- The Decline and Fall of a Man of the World
- Epigrams
- Gaudeamus
- The Greatest Law
- Life's Mystery
- On Mr. L. Phillips Howard's Profound Poem Entitled "Life's Mystery"
- Nathicana
- On an Accomplished Young Linguist
- "The Poetical Punch" Pushed from His Pedestal
- The Road to Ruin
- Saturnalia
- Sonnet Study
- Sors Poetae
- To Samuel Loveman, Esq.
- To "The Scribblers"
- Verses Designed to Be Sent by a Friend of the Author to His Brother-in-Law on New Year's Day
- Christmas Greetings
- * To Eugene B. Kuntz, et al.
- * To Laurie A. Sawyer
- * To Sonia H. Greene
- * To Rheinhart Kleiner
- * To Felis
- * To Annie E.P. Gamwell
- * To Felis
Philosophical works
Scientific works
- The Art of Fusion, Melting Pudling & Casting
- Chemistry, 4 volumes
- A Good Anaesthetic
- The Railroad Review
- The Moon
- The Scientific Gazette
- Astronomy/The Monthly Almanack
- The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy
- Annals of the Providence Observatory
- Providence Observatory Forecast
- The Science Library, 3 volumes
- Astronomy articles for The Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner
- Astronomy articles for The Providence Tribune
- Third Annual Report of the Providence Meteorological Station
- Celestial Objects for All
- Astronomical Notebook
- Astronomy articles for The Providence Evening News
- "Bickerstaffe" articles from The Providence Evening News
- * "Science versus Charlatanry"
- * "The Falsity of Astrology"
- * "Astrology and the Future"
- * "Delavan's Comet and Astrology"
- * "The Fall of Astrology"
- Astronomy articles for The Asheville Gazette-News
- Editor's Note to MacManus' "The Irish and the Fairies"
- The Truth about Mars
Miscellaneous writings
Reprintings and collections
The following are modern reprintings and collections of Lovecraft's work. This list includes only editions by select publishers; therefore, this list is not exhaustive:- From Arkham House
- * with corrected texts by S. T. Joshi:
- ** At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, S. T. Joshi, 1985.
- ** Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, S. T. Joshi, 1987.
- ** The Dunwich Horror and Others, S. T. Joshi, 1984.
- ** The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, S.T. Joshi, 1989.
- * Miscellaneous Writings
- From Arktos
- * The Conservative: The Complete Issues 1915-1923
- From Ballantine/Del Rey:
- * The Tomb and Other Tales
- * Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
- * The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories
- * The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
- * The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- * The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
- * At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
- * The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
- * The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness
- * The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
- * '
- * Pickman's Model By H.P. Lovecraft First Published in "Weird Tales" in 1927
- From Barnes & Noble:
- * H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
- From Classic CD Books:
- * Early Horror Works
- * More Early Horror Works
- From Donald M. Grant, publisher, Inc.:
- * To Quebec and the Stars
- From Ecco Press:
- * Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
- From Gollancz:
- * ' Cased; 978-0-575081-574 Export trade paperback.
- From Harper Collins:
- * Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness
- * Omnibus 2: Dagon and other Macabre Tales
- * Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark
- From Hippocampus Press:
- * The Shadow out of Time
- * From the Pest Zone: The New York Stories
- * The Annotated Fungi From Yuggoth
- * Collected Essays
- ** Volume 1. Amateur Journalism
- ** Volume 2. Literary Criticism
- ** Volume 3. Science
- ** Volume 4. Travel
- ** Volume 5: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany
- ** CD-ROM
- * The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to Alfred Galpin
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Letters To Rheinhart Kleiner
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to Robert Bloch and Others
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge & Anne Tillery Renshaw
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Letters To James F. Morton
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to J. Vernon Shea and Others
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to Duane W. Rimel and Others
- * Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth: 1926-1931
- * '. This 2013 revised edition supersedes the 2001 edition from Night Shade Books, with around twelve additional poems or fragments included.
- From
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Tales
- From Morrow:
- * Great Ghost Stories
- From Night Shade Books:
- * '
- * Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei
- * Lovecraft Letters Volume 2: Letters from New York
- From Ohio University Press:
- * H. P. Lovecraft: Lord of a Visible World An Autobiography in Letters edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
- From Penguin Classics:
- * The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
- * The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
- * The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories
- From Sporting Gentlemen:
- * Against Religion
- From The Palingenesis Project:
- * Supernatural Horror in Literature
- From Arcane Wisdom:
- * The Crawling Chaos and Others: The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft, Volume 1
- * Medusa's Coil and Others: The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft, Volume 2
- Interactive for iPad,