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The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft Volume 1: 70 Horror Short Stories, Novels and Juvenilia
"The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft Volume 1: 70 Horror Short Stories, Novels and Juvenilia" includes all the short stories, novels and Juvenilia writings of H. P Lovecraft. If it has been written by H. P. Lovecraft, it is in this book - search no more! The stories are listed according to the writing year rather than the publication year. This will help in reading the stories in the order they were written and follow on the progress in a timely manner. Short Stories and Novels:
The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory (1919)
Old Bugs (1919)
The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
The White Ship (1919)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
The Street (1919)
The Terrible Old Man (1920)
The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
The Tree (1920)
Celephaïs (1920)
From Beyond (1920)
The Temple (1920)
Nyarlathotep (1920)
The Picture in the House (1920)
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
The Nameless City (1921)
The Quest of Iranon (1921)
The Moon-Bog (1921)
Ex Oblivione (1921)
The Other Gods (1921)
The Outsider (1921)
The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
Sweet Ermengarde (1921)
Hypnos (1922)
What the Moon Brings (1922)
Azathoth (1922)
Herbert West—Reanimator (1922)
The Hound (1922)
The Lurking Fear (1922)
The Rats in the Walls (1923)
The Unnamable (1923)
The Festival (1923)
The Shunned House (1924)
The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
He (1925)
In the Vault (1925)
Cool Air (1926)
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Pickman’s Model (1926)
The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
The Silver Key (1926)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
The Colour Out of Space (1927)
The Descendant (1927)
The Very Old Folk (1927)
The History of the Necronomicon (1927)
The Dunwich Horror (1928)
Ibid (1928)
The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
The Book (1933)
The Evil Clergyman (1933)
The Shadow out of Time (1934)
The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
Juvenilia:
The Little Glass Bottle (1898)
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard (1898)
The Secret Cave (1898)
The Mysterious Ship (1902)
The Beast in the Cave (1904)
The Alchemist (1908)
The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory (1919)
Old Bugs (1919)
The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
The White Ship (1919)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
The Street (1919)
The Terrible Old Man (1920)
The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
The Tree (1920)
Celephaïs (1920)
From Beyond (1920)
The Temple (1920)
Nyarlathotep (1920)
The Picture in the House (1920)
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
The Nameless City (1921)
The Quest of Iranon (1921)
The Moon-Bog (1921)
Ex Oblivione (1921)
The Other Gods (1921)
The Outsider (1921)
The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
Sweet Ermengarde (1921)
Hypnos (1922)
What the Moon Brings (1922)
Azathoth (1922)
Herbert West—Reanimator (1922)
The Hound (1922)
The Lurking Fear (1922)
The Rats in the Walls (1923)
The Unnamable (1923)
The Festival (1923)
The Shunned House (1924)
The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
He (1925)
In the Vault (1925)
Cool Air (1926)
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Pickman’s Model (1926)
The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
The Silver Key (1926)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
The Colour Out of Space (1927)
The Descendant (1927)
The Very Old Folk (1927)
The History of the Necronomicon (1927)
The Dunwich Horror (1928)
Ibid (1928)
The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
The Book (1933)
The Evil Clergyman (1933)
The Shadow out of Time (1934)
The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
Juvenilia:
The Little Glass Bottle (1898)
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard (1898)
The Secret Cave (1898)
The Mysterious Ship (1902)
The Beast in the Cave (1904)
The Alchemist (1908)
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First published June 11, 2012
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About the author
H.P. Lovecraft
6,204 books19.3k followersHoward Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
— Wikipedia
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
— Wikipedia
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October 31, 2015
Let's be frank: If you're considering this edition, you already know how you feel about Lovecraft. You've made your peace with his fulsome use of adjectival phrases, his contradictory claims that the things he insists on describing are in fact indescribable, and his terrifying abuse of dialect. You've probably even managed to steel yourself against his (historically contextualized but still disturbing) racism and misogyny. You've even debated about all of these things with your friends IRL and online, and about what it is about his alienated, nihilistic vision that still draws you to his eldritch horrors. You're here, considering this edition, because it (when paired with its companion volume) represents one of the few available truly complete collections of Lovecraft's fictional works, the only one I'm aware of containing the juvenalia, collaborations, and ghost-writings. You're here because this, more than any other edition, can help you understand Lovecraft's development as a writer. That's really the only reason to tackle the combined 1133 pages of this two-volume set. If you're here because you've heard this fellow Lovecraft mentioned somewhere and are just curious, turn back now and go find one of the selections edited by Joshi or Joyce Carol Oates. These volumes contain the good, the bad, and the ugly and are definitely not the place you want to start.
For those of you who are in it for the long haul, there are still a few things you should know.
* This edition is a print on demand, apparently (if my fellow reviewers can be believed) a labor of love compiled by an HPL fan. That's likely why it's completist, but it's also why there is no introduction or annotations in this set, and no explanation or details of any kind offered on HPL's relationship the collaborators whose joint work appears in the second volume. This edition offers text, but no context whatsoever.
* The damn thing is incredibly unwieldy. The printed volumes are roughly 10" by 7", which makes them larger than most standard hardcover books. That's not so much an issue with the second volume, which is under 400 pages, but given that the first volume runs 758 pages, it's a bit of a brick. I usually do my reading at the gym, which was not an option with this edition. Even reading it curled up on the couch at home was a strain on my wrists, unless I propped it against something.
* The print quality is not good. While mostly typo-free, this edition is bound cheaply, and by the time I got about halfway through volume one pages were beginning to come out. The covers, in addition to having lurid and nonsensical covers, also tend to curl and peel at the edges.
Obviously, at least those last two issues could be avoided by purchasing the ebook editions of these volumes, but for those of you who like to hold your Necronomicon in your hot little hands, they're worth considering. Even with their flaws, the two volumes in this edition are a great value for the dedicated Lovecraft fan - I chose to read them as one long volume, flipping back and forth between the two in order to experience the precise chronology of their creation and it greatly helped me track the development of HPL's themes and language.
Perhaps one day they'll be an edition that combines the completeness of these volumes with the scholarly annotations of some of the abbreviated ones on the market. Until then, this set is an invaluable piece of the puzzle that was H.P. Lovecraft.
For those of you who are in it for the long haul, there are still a few things you should know.
* This edition is a print on demand, apparently (if my fellow reviewers can be believed) a labor of love compiled by an HPL fan. That's likely why it's completist, but it's also why there is no introduction or annotations in this set, and no explanation or details of any kind offered on HPL's relationship the collaborators whose joint work appears in the second volume. This edition offers text, but no context whatsoever.
* The damn thing is incredibly unwieldy. The printed volumes are roughly 10" by 7", which makes them larger than most standard hardcover books. That's not so much an issue with the second volume, which is under 400 pages, but given that the first volume runs 758 pages, it's a bit of a brick. I usually do my reading at the gym, which was not an option with this edition. Even reading it curled up on the couch at home was a strain on my wrists, unless I propped it against something.
* The print quality is not good. While mostly typo-free, this edition is bound cheaply, and by the time I got about halfway through volume one pages were beginning to come out. The covers, in addition to having lurid and nonsensical covers, also tend to curl and peel at the edges.
Obviously, at least those last two issues could be avoided by purchasing the ebook editions of these volumes, but for those of you who like to hold your Necronomicon in your hot little hands, they're worth considering. Even with their flaws, the two volumes in this edition are a great value for the dedicated Lovecraft fan - I chose to read them as one long volume, flipping back and forth between the two in order to experience the precise chronology of their creation and it greatly helped me track the development of HPL's themes and language.
Perhaps one day they'll be an edition that combines the completeness of these volumes with the scholarly annotations of some of the abbreviated ones on the market. Until then, this set is an invaluable piece of the puzzle that was H.P. Lovecraft.
August 2, 2020
Great to dip into, Lovecraft never disappoints.
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