H. P. Lovecraft bibliography explained

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 found on Wikisource.

Fiction

Sl. No.TitleDate writtenDate publishedForm
1Short story
2Short story
3"Dagon"Short story
4Short story
5"Polaris"Short story
6"Beyond the Wall of Sleep"Short story
7"Memory"Flash fiction
8"Old Bugs"Short story
9Short story
10Short story
11Short story
12Short story
13Short story
14Short story
15Short story
16Short story
17"Celephaïs"Short story
18"From Beyond"Short story
19Short story
20"Nyarlathotep"Short story
21Short story
22"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family"Short story
23Short story
24Short story
25Short story
26"Ex Oblivione"Short story
27Short story
28Short story
29Short story
30"Sweet Ermengarde"Short story
31"Hypnos"Short story
32"What the Moon Brings"Short story
33"Azathoth"Novel fragment
34"Herbert West–Reanimator"Short story
35Short story
36Short story
37Short story
38Short story
39Short story
40Short story
41Short story
42"He"Short story
43"In the Vault"Short story
44"Cool Air"Short story
45Short story
46"Pickman's Model"Short story
47Short story
48Short story
49Novella
50Novel
51Short story
52Short story fragment
53Letter excerpt
54"History of the Necronomicon"Brief pseudo-history
55Novella
56"Ibid"Short story
57Novella
58At the Mountains of MadnessNovella
59The Shadow over InnsmouthNovella
60Short story
61Short story
62Short story fragment
63Letter excerpt
64Novella
65Short story

Collaborations, revisions, and ghost writing

TitleDate writtenDate publishedCollaborators (or Revision Client)
R. H. Barlow
Henry S. Whitehead
C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long
R. H. Barlow
Winifred V. Jackson
Zealia Bishop
William Lumley
Duane W. Rimel
Adolphe de Castro (revised from “The Automatic Executioner” by Castro, first published 1891 November 14)
Winifred V. Jackson
1949Sonia Greene
R. H. Barlow
Sonia Greene
Hazel Heald
Hazel Heald
Harry Houdini
Adolphe de Castro
Hazel Heald
Zealia Bishop
Zealia Bishop
R. H. Barlow
Hazel Heald
Anna Helen Crofts
R. H. Barlow
Duane W. Rimel
J. Chapman Miske [1]
Edgar Hoffmann Price
R. H. Barlow
Henry S. Whitehead
Duane W. Rimel
Wilfred Blanch Talman
Kenneth Sterling
Hazel Heald
Robert Bloch
C. M. Eddy Jr.
C. M. Eddy Jr.
C. M. Eddy Jr.
C. M. Eddy Jr.
Robert Bloch
Donald Wandrei
Howard Wandrei
Donald Wandrei
H. Warner Munn
Henry Kuttner

Works by August Derleth related to H. P. Lovecraft's works and notes

!Title!Date
"The Lurker at the Threshold"1945
"The Survivor"1954
"The Ancestor"1957
"The Gable Window"1957
"The Lamp of Alhazred"1957
"The Peabody Heritage"1957
"The Shadow Out of Space"1957
"Wentworth's Day"1957
"The Fisherman of Falcon Point"1959
"The Shuttered Room"1959
"Witches' Hollow"1962
"The Shadow in the Attic"1964
"The Dark Brotherhood"1966
"The Horror from the Middle Span"1974
"Innsmouth Clay"1974
"The Watchers Out of Time"1974

While put forward as posthumous collaborations while Derleth was alive, the status of these works as collaborations with Lovecraft was swiftly disputed after Derleth’s 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".[2]

Unknown authorship

Poetry

Lovecraft's complete poetry is collected in S.T. Joshi (ed), The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft (NY: Hippocampus Press, 2013. (An earlier, less complete version was published by Night Shade Books in 2001).

Lovecraft’s Revisions of Poetry

Scientific works

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:

General and cited sources

Notes and References

  1. Scholar S.T. Joshi considers this a spurious Lovecraft story. It was an account of a dream extracted from one of Lovecraft's letters by editor Miske (cf. "The Evil Clergyman", and "The Very Old Folk"), and published under a title given it by Miske.
  2. Book: S. T. Joshi . S. T. Joshi . H.P. Lovecraft : A Comprehensive Bibliography . 2009 . . . 978-1-59732-069-6 . These sixteen stories, listed as by "H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth", were in fact written almost entirely by Derleth. In most cases, the stories were based on one or more ideas noted in Lovecraft's Commonplace Book; for example, "The Fisherman of Falcon Point" was based on this entry: "Fisherman casts his net into the sea by moonlight—what he finds." Plotting, description, dialogue, characterization, and other elements were entirely by Derleth. As such they cannot be classified as works by Lovecraft. In some instances Derleth incorporated actual prose passages by Lovecraft into his stories. The Lurker at the Threshold (a 50,000-word novel) contains about 1,200 words by Lovecraft, most of it taken from a fragment entitled "Of Evill Sorceries Done in New England" (see B-i-42), the balance from a fragment now titled "The Rose Window" (see B-ii-322). "The Survivor" was based on a comparatively lengthy plot sketch plus random notes for the story jotted down by Lovecraft in 1934. A descriptive passage of "The Lamp of Alhazred" was based on a portion of a letter by Lovecraft to Derleth, November 18, 1936. These extracts or paraphrases, however, have not been deemed significant enough to merit inclusion in this bibliography. . July 25, 2015 . July 25, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150725070814/http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/derleth.aspx . live.
  3. Web site: Did Lovecraft write The Inevitable Conflict? by W. E. Johns. www.gordonswebsite.net. 2016-01-18. March 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074730/http://www.gordonswebsite.net/hp-lovecraft/Did%20Lovecraft%20write%20The%20Inevitable%20Conflict%20by%20W_%20E_%20Johns.htm. live.
  4. Lovecraft . H. P. . Joshi . S. T. . 2019 . H. P. Lovecraft's "Sunset" . Lovecraft Annual . 13 . 103 . 1935-6102 . 26868578.
  5. Callaghan . Gavin . 2011 . Blacks, Boxers, and Lovecraft . Lovecraft Annual . 5 . 109 . 1935-6102 . 26868430.
  6. Hopkins-Drewer . Cecelia . 2020 . Yuletide Horror: "Festival" and "The Messenger" . Lovecraft Annual . 14 . 54–59 . 1935-6102 . 26939809.
  7. Schultz . David E. . August 2021 . Following The Ancient Track . Lovecraft Annual . 15 . 47 . 1935-6102 . 27118858.
  8. Hopkins-Drewer . Cecelia . 2020 . Yuletide Horror: "Festival" and "The Messenger" . Lovecraft Annual . 14 . 57 . 1935-6102 . 26939809.
  9. Ellis . Philip A. . August 2007 . Unity in Diversity: Fungi from Yuggoth as a Unified Setting . Lovecraft Annual . 1 . 88–89 . 1935-6102 . 26868357.
  10. News: Mysteries of the Heavens Revealed By Astronomy in XIV Parts. Asheville Gazette-News. February 16, 1915. 4. newspapers.com. May 28, 2021. May 28, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210528200020/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1939061/mysteries-of-the-heavens-revealed-by/. live.