Order of H.P. Lovecraft Books
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror stories. He did not achieve any significant fame during his lifetime, but has posthumously become an extremely influential author of his time period. Growing up, Lovecraft suffered from night terrors, which would later inspire some of his fiction. He was a reclusive adult – a night owl who lived with his mother. After writing into the pulp magazine The Argosy, he gained the attention of Edward F. Daas (President of the United Amateur Press Association), who encouraged him to start writing poems and essays. Sadly, he lived out his final days in immense pain due to small intestine cancer and malnutrition. Stephen King referred to Lovecraft as “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”
H.P. Lovecraft became a published author in 1923 with the poetry collection The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag. He only wrote one actual novel, which was 1943’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Below is a list of H.P. Lovecraft’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Dream Cycle Books
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The White Ship |
(1919) |
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The Cats of Ulthar |
(1920) |
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The Other Gods |
(1933) |
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Through the Gates of the Silver Key |
(1934) |
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
(1970) |
Publication Order of Randolph Carter Books
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The Unnamable |
(1925) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward |
(1941) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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The Alchemist |
(1916) |
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A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson |
(1917) |
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The Beast in the Cave |
(1918) |
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Beyond the Wall of Sleep |
(1919) |
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Memory |
(1919) |
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Dagon |
(1919) |
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The Doom That Came to Sarnath |
(1920) |
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The Statement of Randolph Carter |
(1920) |
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The Street |
(1920) |
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Nyarlathotep |
(1920) |
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family / The White Ape |
(1921) |
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The Terrible Old Man |
(1921) |
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The Nameless City |
(1921) |
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Ex Oblivione |
(1921) |
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The Picture in the House |
(1921) |
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The Tree |
(1921) |
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Herbert West: Reanimator |
(1922) |
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Celephais |
(1922) |
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The Music of Erich Zann |
(1922) |
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What the Moon Brings |
(1922) |
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Hypnos |
(1923) |
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Under The Pyramids |
(1924) |
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The Hound |
(1924) |
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In the Vault |
(1925) |
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The Temple |
(1925) |
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The Festival |
(1925) |
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The Moon-Bog |
(1926) |
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The Outsider |
(1926) |
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The Horror at Red Hook |
(1927) |
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The Colour Out of Space |
(1927) |
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Pickman’s Model |
(1927) |
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The Call of Cthulhu |
(1928) |
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Cool Air |
(1928) |
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The Silver Key |
(1929) |
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The Strange High House in the Mist |
(1931) |
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Dreams in the Witch-House |
(1933) |
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The Tree on the Hill |
(1934) |
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From Beyond |
(1934) |
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The Quest of Iranon |
(1935) |
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At the Mountains of Madness |
(1936) |
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth |
(1936) |
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The Shadow Out of Time |
(1936) |
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The Haunter of the Dark |
(1936) |
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The Shunned House |
(1937) |
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The Thing on the Doorstep |
(1937) |
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The Lurking Fear / Cry Horror! |
(1937) |
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History of the Necronomicon |
(1938) |
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Ibid |
(1938) |
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Azathoth |
(1938) |
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The Book |
(1938) |
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The Descendant |
(1938) |
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The Evil Clergyman |
(1939) |
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The Very Old Folk |
(1940) |
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Sweet Ermengarde |
(1943) |
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The Transition of Juan Romero |
(1944) |
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The Peabody Heritage |
(1957) |
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The Mystery of the Grave-Yard |
(1959) |
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The Little Glass Bottle |
(1959) |
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The Secret Cave |
(1959) |
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Old Bugs |
(1959) |
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The Mysterious Ship |
(1959) |
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The Rats in the Walls |
(2017) |
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The Dunwich Horror |
(2017) |
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The Tomb |
(2017) |
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He |
(2017) |
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The Whisperer in Darkness |
(2020) |
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Polaris |
(2020) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems |
(1920) |
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The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories |
(1920) |
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The Lurking Fear and Other Stories |
(1923) |
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The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag |
(1923) |
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories |
(1926) |
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Necronomicon |
(1930) |
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror |
(1931) |
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Tales of H.P. Lovecraft |
(1935) |
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The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales |
(1935) |
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories Of Horror |
(1936) |
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The Outsider and Others |
(1939) |
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The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of the Supernatural |
(1944) |
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The Dunwich Horror and Others |
(1945) |
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The Lurker at the Threshold |
(1945) |
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Something About Cats and Other Pieces |
(1949) |
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The Survivor and Others |
(1957) |
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Dreams and Fancies |
(1962) |
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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales |
(1965) |
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The Shadow Out Of Time and Other Tales of Horror |
(1968) |
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The Watchers Out of Time |
(1974) |
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The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror |
(1977) |
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The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft |
(1983) |
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The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories |
(2004) |
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Shadows of Death |
(2005) |
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The Tales of Inspector Legrasse |
(2005) |
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H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction |
(2008) |
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At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird Tales |
(2009) |
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The Crawling Chaos and Others |
(2011) |
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales |
(2011) |
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Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre |
(2011) |
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Works of Weird Fiction |
(2011) |
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Weird Poems |
(2015) |
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The Lurking Fear and More Stories |
(2018) |
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Beyond the Wall of Sleep and Other Strange Tales |
(2018) |
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Dagon Rising |
(2019) |
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Marginalia |
(2020) |
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The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales |
(2020) |
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The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft |
(2020) |
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The Best of H. P. Lovecraft |
(2021) |
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The Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors |
(2021) |
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Tales of Cosmic Terror |
(2023) |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
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H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror |
(2012) |
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward |
(2013) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Supernatural Horror in Literature |
(1927) |
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Lovecraft at Last: The Master of Horror in His Own Words |
(1927) |
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Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 |
(1964) |
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Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 |
(1965) |
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Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 |
(1971) |
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Selected Letters IV, 1932-1934 |
(1976) |
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Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 |
(1976) |
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Uncollected Letters |
(1986) |
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Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H.P. Lovecraft |
(1987) |
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Letters to Henry Kuttner |
(1991) |
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Letters to Richard F. Searight |
(1992) |
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Letters to Robert Bloch |
(1993) |
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Letters to Samuel Loveman & Vincent Starrett |
(1994) |
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The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft |
(1996) |
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The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft |
(1997) |
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More Annotated Lovecraft |
(1999) |
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Lord of a Visible World |
(2000) |
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Letters to Alfred Galpin |
(2002) |
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Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei |
(2002) |
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Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 1: Amateur Journalism |
(2004) |
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Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 2: Literary Criticism |
(2004) |
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Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner |
(2005) |
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Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 3: Science |
(2005) |
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Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 4: Travel |
(2005) |
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Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany |
(2006) |
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Creeping Dementia |
(2007) |
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Dark Adventure Radio Theatre |
(2007) |
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Collected Essays |
(2008) |
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Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 1 |
(2009) |
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Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 2 |
(2009) |
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Letters to James F. Morton |
(2011) |
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Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw |
(2014) |
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Letters to Robert Bloch and Others |
(2015) |
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Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White |
(2016) |
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Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome |
(2016) |
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A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard |
(2017) |
Publication Order of Shadows Over Innsmouth Books
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Shadows Over Innsmouth |
(1994) |
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Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth |
(2005) |
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Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth |
(2013) |
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Publication Order of August Derleth’s “Posthumous Collaborations” Books
(with August Derleth)
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The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces |
(1959) |
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The Watchers Out of Time |
(1974) |
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Publication Order of Creepy Comics Books
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Creepy Comics #1 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #2 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #3 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #4 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #5 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #6 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #7 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #8 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #9 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #10 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #11 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #12 : Creepy Comics; Volume 1 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #13 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #14 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #15 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #16 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #17 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #18 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #19 : Creepy Comics; Volume 1 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #20 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #21 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #22 |
(2015) |
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Creepy Comics #23 |
(2016) |
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Creepy Comics #24 |
(2016) |
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Publication Order of New Annotated Lovecraft Books
(with Leslie Klinger)
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The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft |
(2014) |
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The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham |
(2019) |
Publication Order of Weird Tales Books
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Weird Tales 1 |
(1981) |
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Weird Tales 2 |
(1981) |
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Weird Tales 3 |
(1981) |
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Weird Tales 4 |
(1983) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Swords & Sorcery |
(1963) |
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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1 |
(1969) |
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Summoned From The Tomb |
(1973) |
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Sea Tales of Terror |
(1974) |
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Beyond Midnight |
(1976) |
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Weird Legacies |
(1977) |
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65 Great Spine Chillers |
(1982) |
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Great Fantasy |
(1983) |
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Rod Serling’s Night Gallery Reader |
(1987) |
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The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats |
(1988) |
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror |
(1993) |
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The Giant Book of Zombies |
(1993) |
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100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories |
(1993) |
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The Mammoth Book of Zombies |
(1993) |
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100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories |
(1993) |
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100 Wild Little Weird Tales |
(1994) |
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The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft |
(1994) |
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Sea-Cursed |
(1994) |
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The Necronomicon |
(1996) |
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100 Fiendish Little Frightmares |
(1997) |
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Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters |
(2002) |
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Brooklyn Noir 2 |
(2005) |
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Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V |
(2006) |
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H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural |
(2006) |
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Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction |
(2007) |
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Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad |
(2008) |
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Dancing with the Dark |
(2009) |
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The Horror in the Museum |
(2009) |
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The Dead That Walk |
(2009) |
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Eerie Archives; Vol. 3 |
(2010) |
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Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within |
(2010) |
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The Lovecraft Anthology, Volume 1 |
(2011) |
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50 Classic Novellas |
(2011) |
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Horror for the Holidays |
(2011) |
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The Lovecraft Anthology, Volume 2 |
(2012) |
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The Mammoth Book of Body Horror |
(2012) |
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The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack |
(2012) |
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Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth |
(2013) |
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Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead |
(2013) |
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Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification |
(2013) |
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The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction |
(2013) |
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The Baen Big Book of Monsters |
(2014) |
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Red Sky |
(2014) |
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Fossil Lake II |
(2015) |
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The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories |
(2015) |
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Tales of Horror & Suspense |
(2015) |
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Legacy of the Reanimator |
(2015) |
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Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve |
(2015) |
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Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats |
(2017) |
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Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar |
(2017) |
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Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep |
(2018) |
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Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches |
(2018) |
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The Weird Fiction Collection #1 |
(2018) |
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What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween |
(2018) |
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The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 |
(2019) |
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30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die |
(2019) |
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Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection |
(2020) |
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Thoughts and Pictures |
(2020) |
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Classic Cat Stories |
(2020) |
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The Ultimate Short Story Bundle |
(2020) |
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Wonder and Glory Forever |
(2020) |
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The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror |
(2021) |
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The Colour Out of Deathlehem |
(2021) |
Notes: The Lurking Fear and Other Stories was also published as Cry Horror!. The Survivor & Others and The Watchers Out of Time also contain contributions by August Derleth. The Tales of Inspector Legrasse was co-authored by C.J. Henderson. H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror is written by Joe R. Lansdale, based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft.