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.
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
"The Inevitable Conflict". This was published in Amazing Stories (December 1930 and January 1931) under the name Paul 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.[3]
Lovecraft's poem "Hallowe'en in a Suburb" was cover-featured on the September 1952 Weird Tales
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).
The Solace of Georgian Poetry [xx]
(Wet) Dream Song [xx]
To the Recipient of This Volume [xx]
Dirge of the Doomed [xx]
To a Cat [xx]
The Poem of Ulysses, or The Odyssey [November 8, 1897]
Ovid's Metamorphoses [1898–1902]
H. Lovecraft's Attempted Journey betwixt Providence & Fall River on the N.Y.N.H. & H.R.R. [1901]
Poemata Minora, Volume II [1902]
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 [1902]
De Triumpho Naturae [July 1905]
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 [c. 1908–12]
To His Mother on Thanksgiving [November 30, 1911]
To Mr. Terhune, on His Historical Fiction [c. 1911–13]
Providence in 2000 A.D. [March 4, 1912]
New-England Fallen [April 1912]
On the Creation of Niggers [1912]
Fragment on Whitman [c. 1912]
On Robert Browning [c. 1912]
On a New-England Village Seen by Moonlight [September 7, 1913]
Quinsnicket Park [1913]
To Mr. Munroe, on His Instructive and Entertaining Account of Switzerland [January 1, 1914]
Ad Criticos [January–May? 1914]
Frusta Praemunitus [June? 1914]
De Scriptore Mulieroso [June? 1914]
To General Villa [Summer 1914]
On a Modern Lothario [July–August 1914]
The End of the Jackson War [October 1914]
To the Members of the Pin-Feathers on the Merits of Their Organisation, and of Their New Publication, The Pinfeather [November 1914]
To the Rev. James Pyke [November 1914]
To an Accomplished Young Gentlewoman on Her Birthday, Decr. 2, 1914 [December 2? 1914]
Regner Lodbrog's Epicedium [c. December 1914]
The Power of Wine: A Satire [c. December 8, 1914]
The Teuton's Battle-Song [c. December 17, 1914]
New England [December 18, 1914]
Gryphus in Asinum Mutatus [1914?]
To the Members of the United Amateur Press Association from the Providence Amateur Press Club [c. January 1, 1915]
March [March 1915]
1914 [March 1915]
The Simple Speller's Tale [April 1915]
On Slang [April 1915]
An Elegy on Franklin Chase Clark, M.D. [April 29, 1915]
The Bay-Stater's Policy [June 1915]
The Crime of Crimes [July 1915]
Ye Ballade of Patrick von Flynn [c. August 23, 1915]
The Issacsonio-Mortoniad [c. September 14, 1915]
On Receiving a Picture of Swans [c. September 14, 1915]
Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea [c. September 30, 1915]
On "Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea" [c. September 30, 1915]
To Charlie of the Comics [c. September 30, 1915]
Gems from in a Minor Key [October 1915]
The State of Poetry [October 1915]
The Magazine Poet [October 1915]
A Mississippi Autumn [December 1915]
On the Cowboys of the West [December 1915]
To Samuel Loveman, Esquire, on His Poetry and Drama, Written in the Elizabethan Style [December 1915]
An American to Mother England [January 1916]
The Bookstall [January 1916]
A Rural Summer Eve [January 1916]
To the Late John H. Fowler, Esq. [March 1916]
R. Kleiner, Laureatus, in Heliconem [April 1916]
Temperance Song [Spring 1916]
Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee [c. May 18, 1916]
Content [June 1916]
My Lost Love [c. June 10, 1916]
The Beauties of Peace [June 27, 1916]
The Smile [July 1916]
Epitaph on ye Letterr Rrr........ [August 29, 1916]
The Dead Bookworm [c. August 29, 1916]
On Phillips Gamwell [September 1, 1916]
Inspiration [October 1916]
Respite [October 1916]
The Rose of England [October 1916]
The Unknown [October 1916]
Ad Balneum [c. October 1916]
On Kelso the Poet [October? 1916]
Providence Amateur Press Club (Deceased) to the Athenaeum Club of Journalism [November 24, 1916]
Brotherhood [December 1916]
Brumalia [December 1916]
The Poe-et's Nightmare [1916]
Futurist Art [January 1917]
On Receiving a Picture of the Marshes of Ipswich [January 1917]
The Rutted Road [January 1917]
An Elegy on Phillips Gamwell, Esq. [January 5, 1917]
Lines on Graduation from the R.I. Hospital's School of Nurses [c. January 13, 1917]
Fact and Fancy [February 1917]
The Nymph's Reply to the Modern Business Man [February 1917]
Pacifist War Song—1917 [March 1917]
Percival Lowell [March 1917]
To Mr. Lockhart, on His Poetry [March 1917]
Britannia Victura [April 1917]
Spring [April 1917]
A Garden [April 1917]
Sonnet on Myself [April 1917]
April [April 24, 1917]
Iterum Conjunctae [May 1917]
The Peace Advocate [May 1917]
To Greece, 1917 [May? 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 [June 1917]
The Poet of Passion [June 1917]
Earth and Sky [July 1917]
Ode for July Fourth, 1917 [July 1917]
On the Death of a Rhyming Critic [July 1917]
Prologue to "Fragments from an Hour of Inspiration" by Jonathan E. Hoag [July 1917]
To M.W.M. [July 1917]
To the Incomparable Clorinda [July 1917]
To Saccharissa, Fairest of Her Sex [July 1917]
To Rhodoclia—Peerless among Maidens [July 1917]
To Belinda, Favourite of the Graces [July 1917]
To Heliodora—Sister of Cytheraea [July 1917]
To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema [August 1917]
An American to the British Flag [November 1917]
Autumn [November 1917]
Nemesis [November 1, 1917]
Astrophobos [c. November 25, 1917]
Lines on the 25th. Anniversary of the Providence Evening News, 1892–1917 [December 1917]
An Account of a Trip to the Fairbanks House (1929)
Travels in the Provinces of America (1929)
Notes on Hudson Valley History (1929)
Notes on Alias Peter Marchall by A. F. Lorenz (1929?)
An Account of a Visit to Charleston (1930)
An Account of Charleston (1930)
The Convention (1930)
Autobiography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1930–...)
A Description of the Town of Quebeck, in New France, Lately Added to His Britannic Majesty's Dominions (1930–31)
European Glimpses (1932) (revision of Sonia Greene's journey report)
Correspondence between Wilson Shepherd and R. H. Barlow (1932)
In Memoriam: Henry St. Claire Whitehead (1932)
Notes on Verse Technique (1932)
Foreword to Kuntzs Thoughts and Pictures (1932)
Bureau of Critics (1932–36)
Some Notes on a Nonentity (1933)
Some Dutch Footprints in New England (1933)
Some Notes on a Nonentity (1933)
Notes on Weird Fiction (1933)
Weird Story Plots (1933)
Notes on Writing Weird Fiction (1934)
Mrs. Miniter – Estimates and Recollections (1934)
Homes and Shrines of Poe (1934)
The Unknown City in the Ocean (1934)
Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction (1935)
What Belongs in Verse (1935)
Dr. Eugene B. Kuntz (1935)
Some Current Motives and Practices (1936)
Charleston (1936)
Literary Review (1936)
Defining the "Ideal" Paper (1936)
Report of the Executive Judges (1936)
Suggestions for a Reading Guide (1936)
In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard (1936)
Death Diary (1937)
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:
Joshi, S. T. (2002). H.P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press. ISBN1592240127.
Owings, Mark; Chalker, Jack L. (1973). The Revised H.P. Lovecraft Bibliography. Baltimore: Mirage Press. ISBN0883580101.
Citations
^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.
^S. T. Joshi (2009). H.P. Lovecraft : A Comprehensive Bibliography. Tampa, FL: University of Tampa Press. ISBN978-1-59732-069-6. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2015. 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.
^Hopkins-Drewer, Cecelia (2020). "Yuletide Horror: "Festival" and "The Messenger"". Lovecraft Annual (14): 54–59. ISSN1935-6102. JSTOR26939809.
^Schultz, David E. (August 2021). "Following The Ancient Track". Lovecraft Annual (15): 47. ISSN1935-6102. JSTOR27118858.
^Hopkins-Drewer, Cecelia (2020). "Yuletide Horror: "Festival" and "The Messenger"". Lovecraft Annual (14): 57. ISSN1935-6102. JSTOR26939809.
^Ellis, Philip A. (August 2007). "Unity in Diversity: Fungi from Yuggoth as a Unified Setting". Lovecraft Annual (1): 88–89. ISSN1935-6102. JSTOR26868357.
