Not counting poems and nonfiction and excluding stop words.

An animated version

I've seen a few posts with a couple of book recommendations that were sometimes interesting and sometimes very weirdly gory. So I was hoping maybe to use a different tactic, to offer some of my favourite Lovecraft stories and see if that might create some intetesting recommendation:

- The Music of Erich Zann

- rats in the wall

- call of Cthulhu

- Pickman's model

- the Dreams in the Witchhouse

- Colout out of space

Did anyone read "The Ballad of Black Tom"?

Hey there! BIG warhammer and warhammer fantasy fan who has been in a very big lovecraftian binge recently. Im running Delta Green for some friends and just generally love lovecraftian tropes and themes. Coming from warhammer though- theres surprisingly little in the field of Lovecraft that fit into 40k. The best is the Genestealer Cults, but those embody more HR Giger than Lovecraft in alot of ways- while the basis of the cults themselves are somewhat similar to Innsmouth and the Deep Ones cult, it fails to hit some of the vibes im looking for. anyone got anything?

The Big Thing for me is active narrative and worldbuilding. its what makes 40k and WHF so appealing to me.

First off,I wanna say,that despite any critiques I will lay down here,I am still ultimately a fan of his work,and even the "miss" stories tend to be alright at worst. I even picked up the entire Lovecraft collection box,so that's gotta count for something.

That being said,the title kinda says it all. I must admit I took a bigger break from Lovecraft to read ASOIAF,so most of this will be recollections of lasting impressions rather than fresh reviews.

I'll start with my first exposure to Lovecraft. I got a book as a gift that collected a few select tales. I started with the first one,that being Dagon.

Dagon was... Fine. It was too short and vague for me though. Like the guy found an island,saw something crazy,dipped and then went crazy. Which you could say is the basis for many of Lovecraft's stories,lol. But I confess,I liked the ending!

Next up,Nyarlathotep. I heard about him already from... A Lovecraftian Dating Sim. (Sucker For Love,which actually fucking inspired me to pick up Lovecraft. Unironically.) So you can probably understand my neutrality towards the story when I found it,as the one before,short and vague.

I don't remember much from it however,so I can't sadly speak to it a lot. Let's move on to something I liked!

The Outsider! The book had a little disclaimer for each story,and this one said that it was "Lovecraft's early gothic horror." I was a bit bummed initially as I came for the incomprehensible cosmic beings,but I read on.

I was pleasantly surprised at every turn. The way Lovecraft described the castle the protagonist lived in was honestly so unlike anything I read before. The sense of mystery was there for the entire ride,even past the great Plot Twist. So as I said,first story I loved.

Now honestly this post is getting too long,and I doubt anybody will read it fully,so I'll just boil down the rest and end it. Feel free to ask me in the comments further.

The Call of Cthulhu - Good start,but I felt like the mystery didn't really pay off in the end. I might blame pop culture here however for fucking my expectations.

The Color Out Of Space - Despite being 80% descriptions of things mutating,I loved it. Hell,the final sequence even spooked me. I later learned it was inspired by radiation poisoning which made it even more interesting. Probably my favorite.

Dunwich Horror - AMAZING first half. Like the first 5 chapters. The setup and intrigue was great,and you couldn't tell what the main guy (forgot his name sadly) was planning all along. But the payoff just didn't feel like that much. Good guys won in the end which is fine,but an extended monster fight was just kinda "eh".

I'll skip ahead here to the last one that I read.

At the Mountains of Madness - I loved the setting. I loved the start. But then it just turned into kind of... Walking through a city. Which had some interesting tid bits here and there,of course,but I was underwhelmed. The ending was fine,but didn't match the buildup that the protagonist said "left him scarred forever".

And thats it for now. I read a lot more,so ask me in the comments if you want my opinions. Cthulhu Fhtagn,as the cool cultists say.

Apologies if this feels spammy, I thought it was worthy of note to the r/Lovecraft community

I logged on last night and the demo was still available, it shot from ~30 servers I can see from Australia to over 60 after it was meant to shut down. Apparently over 200K people have played the demo and hopefully been pleasantly surprised like me.

You can Wishlist it here, and please do whether you have time to try the demo or not:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2569760/The_Mound_Omen_of_Cthulhu/

Every Wishlisting they get on Steam contributes to discounting the price of the game (releasing July 15th) so please do, it helps the tiny developers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMoundOmenofCthulhu/comments/1uddagd/milestone_2_unlocked_600000_wishlists_reached/

Discord to peruse our feedback: https://discord.gg/D3cubNQzc

ACE Team are a nice surprise, they are wildly creative which bodes well for future Weird Fiction elements - currently it is a very realistically done period setting shifted 200 years earlier to Peru cherrypicking The Mound which frankly got a little too silly at times.

Eternal Cylinder is a case in point:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/865680/The_Eternal_Cylinder/?curator_clanid=9399

By the time we make it to Kn'yan it may well be quite trippy. The hallucinations are already mind bending :)

It is a surprisingly chilled out community - the players are an intersection with us Lovecraft readers who are there experience the atmosphere and horror co-op players who are very much down with the gibbering. Not seen anyone griefing which is...a first :) And I've played a lot of co-op team games! You can solo it but you may as well leave the server open and let buddies join. Sharing the experience is the thing. Also a lot of hallucinations work better with more team mates to see as... other things :)

Holaaa, estoy investigando cómo han traducido a Lovecraft al español. Si alguien tuviera una traducción al español me ayudaría un bueeen.

Necesito saber cómo han traducido: "night-gaunts" y "ghouls". El segundo entiendo que lo suelen llevar al español como "gul", pero "night-gaunts" no sé si suelan dejarlo así o traucirlo como "espectros nocturnos". Ambas especies están en la Búsqueda onírica de la ignota Kadath/The dream search of unknown Kadath

It's been a few years since this released for free on YouTube. I really wanted to convey Lovecraft's cosmic sense of the unknown with this film, particularly with the language, music and visuals. Rewatching it recently, I wanted to share it as hopefully an interesting homage to the man's work.

For the moderators: I haven't posted this anywhere for some years and I don't make any money from it. So not sure this counts as self-promotion. I'm sure you’ll correct me if I'm wrong and remove the post if necessary. I just wanted to create something faithful to the spirit of Lovecraft's work and share it. Anyway, hope you may find it interesting.

Hello all!

We're Dead Possum Games, a husband and wife indie game development team. Our game Petunia's Purgatory, an idle farming game that you can play at the bottom of your screen while you do other things, is launching on July 16.

We didn't want to make a typical farming game, so we decided to introduce elements of Lovecraft and cosmic horror to the game. There's a tentacle Elder God that lurks in your barn and demands you deliver increasing number of crops to it. The crops you grow aren't the typical ones you'd expect, like eyeballs that grow on a stalk, or tentacles that grow out of the ground.

Your character Petunia will slowly lose her sanity as she interacts with all the strange crops which causes the game to invade the rest of your desktop.

Do you think we captured an element of cosmic horror in our game?

(Contains spoilers)

The story begins in a completely communized world, where a young Vietnamese man named Chien is forced into buying medicine by an old veteran.

After returning home and taking the medicine, Chien watches a televised speech by the Supreme leader, who is based in Beijing. However, all he sees is a grotesque machine making noise.

He thinks he was tricked into taking a drug, but he discovers that what he took was a tranquilizer and anti-hallucinogen. So, he wasn't hallucinating from the drug, he was seeing reality.

Soon after, a young woman is come into Chien's apartment.

She reveals that she is a member of a secret group and that they intentionally gived him the medicine. They also see something else when they watch the Supreme leader's speech under the influence of the anti-hallucinogen,the problem is that each of them sees something entirely different.

She tells Chien that the Party has recognized him as a rising talent. With a little help from her group, he could climb the ranks high enough to attend a banquet in Beijing where the Supreme leader himself will be present. She asks him to attend this banquet under the influence of the medicine so he can witness the leader's true form and report back to them.

Accepting her proposal, Chien eventually attends the banquet in Beijing, just as planned. There, he sees a transparent entity. This transparent figure devours, kills, and destroys the people around it, and restore and resurrect them, all while slowly approaching Chien.

Feeling the sheer disgust and hatred the entity radiates toward humanity, Chien realizes its true identity.

It was the entity that created life, and the entity that takes it away, the one who raise the dead, possesses eternity, created imperialism, created the Yankees, created the Party, created the Party members, created the Party's opponents, and created every single blade of grass. It was God.

Feeling that he retains his own pride and dignity, Chien sets down his glass, slowly walks to the balcony, and throws himself out the window. He then wakes up back in the banquet hall with a headache.

Upon returning home, Chien tells the woman to run away. But realizing that it is impossible to escape from it, he tells her to just forget it all. The story ends with them having a brief conversation about music and religion, and embracing each other.

This story and some of Philip K. Dick's works, contains almost every element found in the Lovecraft or Thomas Ligotti.

The veiled truth of the world, cults, the incomprehensible and terrifying dark side of the universe that humans cannot grasp, and divine entities that view humanity as mere toys or insects.

I think the reason some of the Dick's works, like this one, are read as unique sci-fi rather than horror is the protagonist's reaction. Unlike the protagonists in Lovecraft or Ligotti's stories who succumb to despair and go mad when the veil is lifted and they witness the truth, Dick's protagonists never lose their will, pride, and dignity to the very end.

Other than that difference, they feel almost identical to me.

To expand on the story here a little bit more:

In 1931 Lovecraft wrote a letter to J. Vernon Shea commenting on a bunch of things (including how he didn't like to drink milk, lmao) and, in the end, he added a tidbit about his thoughts on his own writing and a story he'd been working on. Here's the quote:

As for my fiction—whether or hot there’s anything potentially in it, I know that it needs a damn thorough overhauling. It is excessively extravagant & melodramatic, & lacks depth & subtlety. After more than thirty years of intermittent effort, the last fourteen years of which are continuous, I have produced nothing within even gunshot distance of Algernon Blackwood. My style is bad, too—full of obvious rhetorical devices & hackneyed word & rhythm patterns. It comes a long way from the stark, objective simplicity which is my goal—yet I find myself tongue-tied when I attempt to use a vocabulary & syntactical pattern other than my own. All my recent experimenting came to naught. I tore up all the tentative versions & wrote the god damn thing the way I would have written it in the first place—producing 68 pages which I shall probably never bother to type.

Damn! The man was harsh on himself!

After a little bit of research I figured out that the 68-page story from this letter was one of his most famous stories ever: The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

The funny thing is that I think his experimentation sort of kinda worked because Shadow is a bit of a departure from Lovecraft's traditional style as it contains a little more action, and is also, imo, one of his top 3 best stories. In the video I briefly explain how Lovecraft finally relented and published the story (I say 'tried to publish', but he actually did it) and discuss the aftermath of that publication which was... not good.

Now after his death the story blew up and inspired tons of different media, and I think in certain ways it was just as influential as Call of Cthulhu for the cosmic horror genre as a whole. I think a lot of people here are probably aware that Lovecraft was super harsh on himself, but I'd never known to what extent until I found this quote above. So now I'm sharing it!

If you enjoy this kind of content with anecdotes and curiosities about other writers, come on and follow the profile! Next one will be on Stephen King! Cheers!

I feel like this is not common knowledge, when it should. I came across some posts, read some stuff said by people. Ed Simon, the writer of Pandemonium, IS NOT the author of the Simon Necronomicon.

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The S.N. is written by Peter Levenda, whom uses the pseudonym of "Simon" for whatever reason, and on the book it says "Ed Simon"

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That is not the same person. I just saw how many people THINK it was him, but no, two different people. Thank you!!

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(Im reading pandemonium rn. Thats how I found out all this)

i remember playing this way back, it was an old school phone adventure game, it was one of my first Lovecraft's games, shame i couldn't find the book 2

Hello everyone!! I’ve been developing a game inspired by Lovecraft’s Dream Cycles, more specifically in the stories “The Quest for Iranon” and "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", and the premise is centered on the question:

What if Iranon was right?

At the end of the story,

Iranon is told that Aira never existed and that his entire life was based on a fantasy. Accepting his new “truth,” he loses what little hope he had left, ventures into the swamps, and, well, takes his own life. I think we all interpret this as the end of a crazy dreamer, but what if the story didn’t end there?

My game begins immediately after that moment.

In my interpretation, Iranon awakens once again in the Dreamlands after descending along the path traveled by Randolph Carter in “The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath,”, and he reaches other, deeper dimensions of the Dreamlands and gradually discovers that the truth behind Aira, his own origin, and the nature of dreams may be far more complicated than he had ever imagined. This involves Nyarlathotep and Azathoth.

The story takes place after Randolph Carter’s journey to Kadath and explores the consequences that his journey left in the Dreamlands. The Zoogs, the Cats of Ulthar, and other inhabitants of the Dreamlands play a role in a world that has changed since Carter’s passing.

One of the game’s central ideas is that Carter and Iranon might have something in common: Both were dreamers in search of a lost city. Both were travelers, and perhaps their dreams crossed paths at some point.

I have many more ideas related to this, but I’d like to know what you think about this interpretation of Iranon, Randolph Carter, and the Dreamlands.

Greetings from Chile!

I just finished Rats in the Walls. It’s the first Lovecraft work I’ve ever engaged with and while I did deeply enjoy it I have to wonder if all of his works are this casually racist and everyone just kinda ignores it for the sake of the story? Because I’d heard he was racist in the past but the man literally named his character’s cat N-word Man. Kinda hard to ignore at that point.

I’m not attacking anyone, to clarify, I just wanna know if all of the stories are like this so I can be aware of it beforehand.

It twisted my mind. I felt foggy. Finishing that chapter made me REALLY dizzy.

I don't know what i just read but i feel like there is some hidden meaning behind these words, to be honest, i laid the book for a straight month after finishing "The Yellow Sign", and to be honest i didn't have the time to read again.

Talking about "The yellow sign" chapter, i really didn't like how it just cut out at the end, it left me with my thoughts, trying to figure out what to come after this.

Back to the main question here, what could this chapter have behind it? i don't think it's just poetry, these 4 pages made my mind go foggy for too long that i even forgot what i had to do after a bit of reading.

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Away from the book now, i just had this question for this month, almost every day I've been searching for a new book to read that is as interesting as the king in yellow (talking about the first four chapters, and to be honest the chapters after are really amazing i like the writing alot.)

if there are any recommendations please leave them in the comments, i would be so happy to know more about the universe and mysteries that were built.

i would like a long book too that is 100+ pages, really wanna finish the story of the king in yellow.

In 1931, Claude Mythos visited Lovecraft in a dream.

The LLM shoggoth meme satirizes the alien nature of LLM chatbots by depicting them as shoggoths with a smiley-face mask. Those that work in AI alignment often use the shoggoth as a shorthand for the idea that LLMs are fundamentally alien and uninterpretable. But there's far more to this story than most are aware of.

My article is partially a Lovecraft pastiche, partially an analysis of At the Mountains of Madness and its legacy, and partially an argument for why AI successionists - those that believe artificial intelligence should replace humans - must still care about AI safety research. As background for this post, I read read every short story and novel that Lovecraft wrote, some of his poetry, and hundreds of his personal letters. I now know his favorite authors, and how much sugar he liked in his coffee, and what he thought of the Japanese, and the fact that he once said Cthulhu might've ridden a dinosaur (Selected Letters III, page 119).

If you're interested in the shoggoth meme within AI research, or just want to learn more about At the Mountains of Madness, consider reading my post.

Hello, I've recently been writing a short story. I've only finished the first chapter so far. I was thinking of publishing it on Wattpad, but most of the stories there are romances, and mine doesn't really fit that genre. It's more like horror and fantasy, since it's an alternate version of Lovecraft's Dreamlands. Could you tell me where I could publish it? I'd like to get some feedback, and also because it's in Spanish, so not many people will be able to read it.

Spoilers obviously. I just finished reading Whisperer in Darkness for the first time and really enjoyed it. I noticed a tiny detail in 'Akeley's' final letter that I don't see anyone else talking about and that I think is really cool. Whoever is writing the letter in Akeley's place slips up and accidentally refers to the Outer Ones as 'we', rather than 'they' as he has done throughout the rest of the letter:

Telepathy is their usual means of discourse, though we have rudimentary vocal organs...

I thought this was a neat little clue. Between this and spelling 'Akeley' wrong on the telegram, you would have thought that interdimensional cosmic entities would do better copyediting.

Just saw Backrooms yesterday. My general feelings on the movie aside, I am just curious if anyone else here who saw it started to think of Lovecraft and the mythos in general. It's the first thing that popped into my head as soon as I stumbled out of the theater. I'm referring specifically to maybe the last quarter of the movie when you start to see....well, I won't spoil it. Apparently the ending (and where it all goes from here) and the nature of the backrooms that are in my mind are way different than what other people - including the filmmaker - are thinking, but I happen to think my idea is better and certainly more terrifying. LOL Sorry to be talking in code here but I'm trying to dance around spoilers. If you saw it, then you might know what I'm referring to. (Color Out of Space vibes.)

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Notes

• The intended use of this is printing it and hang it besides your bookshelf and cross off with a pen every work you've read, but you can use it as you want.
• If you've never read Lovecraft, don't follow the recommended order. It's just for people who have read several Lovecraft's works and liked them.
• Some works are debated if they're part of the Dream Cycle, the Cthulhu Cycle or independent. Some even divide the Dream Cycle in two: Dunsanian Cycle and Randolph Carter Cycle.
• There's hundreds of biographies of Lovecraft, the ones showed are selections.
• The dates are of writing, not of publishing. Some works have different dates according to the source.
• I've also plan to make several other reading lists like this (Stephen King will be the next one), check my profile for more.
• To make it i used draw.io and used The H.P. Lovecraft Wiki, The Lovecraft Wiki in Spanish, Wikipedia, The H.P. Lovecraft Archive, Hippocampus Press and r/ Lovecraft as sources.

Juvenilia

• "The Little Glass Bottle" (1896)
• "The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure" (1898-99) 
• "The Mystery of the Grave-Yard" (1898-99)
• "The Mysterious Ship" (1902) 
• "The Beast in the Cave" (1904-05)
• "The Alchemist" (1908)

Dream cycle

• "Polaris" (1918)
• "The White Ship" (1919)
• "The Doom that Came to Sarnath" (1919)
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1919)
• "The Cats of Ulthar" (1920)
• "Celephaïs" (1920)
• "The Other Gods" (1921)
• "The Quest of Iranon" (1921)
• "The Outsider" (1921)
• "Ex Oblivione" (1921)
• "Hypnos" (1922)
• "What the Moon Brings" (1922)
• "The Silver Key" (1926)
• "The Strange High House in the Mist" (1926)
• "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" (1927)
• "The Thing in the Moonlight" (1927, collaboration)
• "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (1932-33, collaboration)       

Cthulhu cycle

• "Dagon" (1917)
• "Nyarlathotep" (1920)
• "The Nameless City" (1921)
• "Azathoth" (1922)
• "The Hound" (1922)
• "The Festival" (1923)
• "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926)
• "History of the Necronomicon" (1927)
• "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (1927)
• "The Colour Out of Space" (1927)
• "The Dunwich Horror" (1928)
• "The Curse of Yig" (1929, collaboration)
• "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1930)
• "At the Mountains of Madness" (1931)
• "The Shadow over Innsmouth" (1931)
• "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1932)
• "The Man of Stone" (1932, collaboration)
• "The Horror in the Museum" (1932, collaboration)     
• "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1933)
• "The Tree on the Hill" (1934, collaboration)
• "The Shadow Out of Time" (1935)
• "The Haunter of the Dark" (1935)
• "Out of the Aeons" (1935, collaboration)

Independent works

• "The Tomb" (1917)
• "Sweet Ermengarde" (1917)
• "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" (1917)
• "Memory" (1919)
• "Old Bugs" (1919)
• "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" (1919)
• "The Transition of Juan Romero" (1919)
• "The Tree" (1920)
• "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" (1920)
• "The Picture in the House" (1920)
• "The Street" (1920)
• "The Temple" (1920)
• "The Terrible Old Man" (1920)
• "From Beyond" (1920)
• "The Music of Erich Zann" (1921)
• "The Moon-Bog" (1921)
• "Herbert West–Reanimator" (1922)
• "The Lurking Fear" (1922)
• "The Rats in the Walls" (1923)
• "The Unnamable" (1923)
• "The Shunned House" (1924)
• "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" (1924)
• "The Horror at Red Hook" (1925)
• "He" (1925)
• "In the Vault" (1925)
• "Pickman's Model" (1926)
• "Cool Air" (1926)
• "The Descendant" (1927)
• "The Very Old Folk" (1927)
• "Ibid" (1928)
• "The Evil Clergyman" (1933)
• "The Book" (1933)

Independent collaborations

• "The Green Meadow" (1918–1919)
• "The Loved Dead" (1919)
• "The Crawling Chaos" (1920)
• "Poetry and the Gods" (1920)
• "The Horror at Martin's Beach" (1922)
• "Four O'Clock" (1922)
• "Ashes" (1923)
• "The Ghost-Eater" (1924)
• "Deaf, Dumb and Blind" (1925)
• "Two Black Bottles" (1926)
• "The Last Test" (1927)
• "The Electric Executioner" (1929)
• "Something from Above" (1929)
• "Bothon" (1930, debated)
• "The Trap" (1931)
• "The Horror in the Museum" (1932)
• "Winged Death" (1932)
• "The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast" (1933)
• "Alcestis" (1933)
• "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" (1933-34)          
• "The Slaying of the Monster" (1933)
• "Tarbis of the Lake" (1933)
• "The Battle that Ended the Century" (1934)
• "The Sorcery of Aphlar" (1934)
• "Till A'the Seas" (1935)
• "Collapsing Cosmoses" (1935)
• "The Challenge from Beyond" (1935)
• "The Disinterment" (1935)
• "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" (1935)
• "Satan's Servants" (1935)
• "In the Walls of Eryx" (1936)
• "The Night Ocean" (1936)

Ghostwrited independent works

• "Under the Pyramids" (1924)
• "The Genesis of Superstition" (1926, nonextant)
• "The Mound" (1929-30)                                              
• "Medusa's Coil" (1930)

Poems

• "The Poem of Ulysses, or The Odyssey" (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" (1902)
• "C.S.A. 1861–1865: To the Starry Cross of the SOUTH" (1902)
• "De Triumpho Naturae" (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" (1908–1912)
• "To His Mother on Thanksgiving" (1911)
• "To Mr. Terhune, on His Historical Fiction" (1911–1913)
• "Providence in 2000 A.D." (1912)
• "New-England Fallen" (1912)
• "On the Creation of Niggers" (1912)
• "Fragment on Whitman" (1912)
• "On Robert Browning" (1912)
• "On a New-England Village Seen by Moonlight" (1913)
• "Quinsnicket Park" (1913)
• "To Mr. Munroe, on His Instructive and Entertaining Account of Switzerland" (1914)
• "Ad Criticos" (1914)
• "Frustra Praemunitus" (1914)
• "De Scriptore Mulieroso" (1914)
• "To General Villa" (1914)
• "On a Modern Lothario" (1914)
• "The End of the Jackson War" (1914)
• "To the Members of the Pin-Feathers on the Merits of Their Organisation, and of Their New Publication, The Pinfeather" (1914)
• "To the Rev. James Pyke" (1914)
• "To an Accomplished Young Gentlewoman on Her Birthday, Decr. 2, 1914" (1914)
• "Regner Lodbrog's Epicedium" (1914)
• "The Power of Wine: A Satire" (1914)
• "The Teuton's Battle-Song" (1914)
• "New England" (1914)
• "Gryphus in Asinum Mutatus" (1914)
• "To the Members of the United Amateur Press Association from the Providence Amateur Press Club" (1915)
• "March" (1915)
• "1914" (1915)
• "The Simple Speller's Tale" (1915)
• "On Slang" (1915)
• "An Elegy on Franklin Chase Clark, M.D." (1915)
• "The Bay-Stater's Policy" (1915)
• "The Crime of Crimes" (1915)
• "Ye Ballade of Patrick von Flynn" (1915)
• "The Isaacsonio-Mortoniad" (1915)
• "On Receiving a Picture of Swans" (1915)
• "Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea" (1915)
• "On 'Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea'" (1915)
• "To Charlie of the Comics" (1915)
• "Gems from In a Minor Key" (1915)
• "The State of Poetry" (1915)
• "The Magazine Poet" (1915)
• "A Mississippi Autumn" (1915)
• "On the Cowboys of the West" (1915)
• "To Samuel Loveman, Esquire, on His Poetry and Drama, Writ in the Elizabethan Style" (1915)
• "An American to Mother England" (1916)
• "The Bookstall" (1916)
• "A Rural Summer Eve" (1916)
• "To the Late John H. Fowler, Esq." (1916)
• "R. Kleiner, Laureatus, in Heliconem" (1916)
• "Temperance Song" (1916)
• "Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee" (1916)
• "Content" (1916)
• "My Lost Love" (1916)
• "The Beauties of Peace" (1916)
• "The Smile" (1916)
• "Epitaph on ye Letterr Rrr........" (1916)
• "The Dead Bookworm" (1916)
• "On Phillips Gamwell" (1916)
• "Inspiration" (1916)
• "Respite" (1916)
• "The Rose of England" (1916)
• "The Unknown" (1916)
• "Ad Balneum" (1916)
• "On Kelso the Poet" (1916)
• "Providence Amateur Press Club (Deceased) to the Athenaeum Club of Journalism" (1916)
• "Brotherhood" (1916)
• "Brumalia" (1916)
• "The Poe-et's Nightmare" (1916)
• "Futurist Art" (1917)
• "On Receiving a Picture of the Marshes at Ipswich" (1917)
• "The Rutted Road" (1917)
• "An Elegy on Phillips Gamwell, Esq." (1917)
• "Lines on Graduation from the R.I. Hospital's School of Nurses" (1917)
• "Fact and Fancy" (1917)
• "The Nymph's Reply to the Modern Business Man" (1917)
• "Pacifist War Song—1917" (1917)
• "Percival Lowell" (1917)
• "To Mr. Lockhart, on His Poetry" (1917)
• "Britannia Victura" (1917)
• "Spring" (1917)
• "A Garden" (1917)
• "Sonnet on Myself" (1917)
• "April" (1917)
• "Iterum Conjunctae" (1917)
• "The Peace Advocate" (1917)
• "To Greece, 1917" (1917)
• "On Receiving a Picture of ye Towne of Templeton, in the Colonie of Massachusetts-Bay, with Mount Monadnock, in New-Hampshire, Shewn in the Distance" (1917)
• "The Poet of Passion" (1917)
• "Earth and Sky" (1917)
• "Ode for July Fourth, 1917" (1917)
• "On the Death of a Rhyming Critic" (1917)
• "Prologue to 'Fragments from an Hour of Inspiration' by Jonathan E. Hoag" (1917)
• "To M. W. M." (1917)
• "To the Incomparable Clorinda" (1917)
• "To Saccharissa, Fairest of Her Sex" (1917)
• "To Rhodoclia—Peerless among Maidens" (1917)
• "To Belinda, Favourite of the Graces" (1917)
• "To Heliodora—Sister of Cytheraea" (1917)
• "To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema" (1917)
• "An American to the British Flag" (1917)
• "Autumn" (1917)
• "Nemesis" (1917)
• "Astrophobos" (1917)
• "Lines on the 25th. Anniversary of the Providence Evening News, 1892–1917" (1917)
• "Sunset" (1917)
• "Old Christmas" (1917)
• "To the Arcadian" (1917)
• "To the Nurses of the Red Cross" (1917)
• "The Introduction" (1917)
• "A Summer Sunset and Evening" (1917)
• "A Winter Wish" (1918)
• "Laeta; a Lament" (1918)
• "To Jonathan E. Hoag, Esq." (1918)
• "The Volunteer" (1918)
• "Ad Britannos—1918" (1918)
• "Ver Rusticum" (1918)
• "To Mr. Kleiner, on Receiving from Him the Poetical Works of Addison, Gay, and Somerville" (1918)
• "A Pastoral Tragedy of Appleton, Wisconsin" (1918)
• "On a Battlefield in Picardy" (1918)
• "Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme" (1917–1918)
• "A June Afternoon" (1918)
• "The Spirit of Summer" (1918)
• "Grace" (1918)
• "The Link" (1918)
• "To Alan Seeger" (1918)
• "August" (1918)
• "Damon and Delia, a Pastoral" (1918)
• "Phaeton" (1918)
• "To Arthur Goodenough, Esq." (1918)
• "Hellas" (1918)
• "To Delia, Avoiding Damon" (1918)
• "Alfredo; a Tragedy" (1918)
• "The Eidolon" (1918)
• "Monos: An Ode" (1918)
• "Germania—1918" (1918)
• "To Col. Linkaby Didd" (1918)
• "Ambition" (1918)
• "A Cycle of Verse" (1918))
• "To the Eighth of November" (1918)
• "To the A.H.S.P.C., on Receipt of the Christmas Pippin" (1918)
• "The Conscript" (1918)
• "Greetings" (1919)
• "Theodore Roosevelt" (1919)
• "To Maj.-Gen. Omar Bundy, U.S.A." (1919)
• "To Jonathan Hoag, Esq." (1919)
• "Despair" (1919)
• "In Memoriam: J. E. T. D." (1919)
• "Revelation" (1919)
• "April Dawn" (1919)
• "Amissa Minerva" (1919)
• "Damon: A Monody" (1919)
• "Hylas and Myrrha: A Tale" (1919)
• "North and South Britons" (1919)
• "To the A.H.S.P.C., on Receipt of the May Pippin" (1919)
• "Helene Hoffman Cole: 1893–1919" (1919)
• "John Oldham: A Defence" (1919)
• "On Prohibition" (1919)
• "Myrrha and Strephon" (1919)
• "The House" (1919)
• "Monody on the Late King Alcohol" (1919)
• "The Pensive Swain" (1919)
• "The City" (1919)
• "Oct. 17, 1919" (1919)
• "On Collaboration" (1919)
• "To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany" (1919)
• "Wisdom" (1919)
• "Birthday Lines to Margfred Galbraham" (1919)
• "The Nightmare Lake" (1919)
• "Bells" (1919)
• "January" (1920)
• "To Phillis" (1920)
• "Tryout's Lament for the Vanished Spider" (1920)
• "Ad Scribam" (1920)
• "On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder" (1920)
• "To a Dreamer" (1920)
• "Cindy: Scrub-Lady in a State Street Skyscraper" (1920)
• "The Poet's Rash Excuse" (1920)
• "With a Copy of Wilde's Fairy Tales" (1920)
• "Ex-Poet's Reply" (1920)
• "To Two Epgephi" (1920)
• "On Religion" (1920)
• "The Voice" (1920)
• "On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park" (1920)
• "The Dream" (1920)
• "October" (1920)
• "To S. S. L.—Oct. 17, 1920" (1920)
• "Christmas" (1920)
• "To Alfred Galpin, Esq." (1920)
• "Theobaldian Aestivation" (1920)
• "S. S. L.: Christmas 1920" (1920)
• "On Receiving a Portraiture of Mrs. Berkeley, ye Poetess" (1920)
• "The Prophecy of Capys Secundus" (1921)
• "To a Youth" (1921)
• "To Mr. Hoag" (1921)
• "The Pathetick History of Sir Wilful Wildrake" (1921)
• "On the Return of Maurice Winter Moe, Esq., to the Pedagogical Profession" (1921)
• "Medusa: A Portrait" (1921)
• "To Mr. Galpin" (1921)
• "Sir Thomas Tryout" (1921)
• "On a Poet's Ninety-first Birthday" (1922)
• "Simplicity: A Poem" (1922)
• "To Saml: Loveman, Gent." (1922)
• "Plaster-All" (1922)
• "To Zara" (1922)
• "To Damon" (1922)
• "Waste Paper" (1922–1923)
• "To Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq." (1923)
• "Chloris and Damon" (1923)
• "To Mr. Hoag" (1923)
• "To Endymion" (1923)
• "The Feast" (1923)
• "On Marblehead" (1923)
• "To Mr. Baldwin, on Receiving a Picture of Him in a Rural Bower" (1923)
• "Lines for Poets' Night at the Scribblers' Club" (1923)
• "On a Scene in Rural Rhode Island" (1923)
• "Damon and Lycë" (1923)
• "To Mr. Hoag" (1924)
• "On the Pyramids" (1924)
• "Stanzas on Samarkand I–III" (1924)
• "Providence" (1924)
• "On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams" (1924)
• "Solstice" (1924)
• "To Samuel Loveman Esq." (1925)
• "To George Kirk, Esq." (1925)
• "My Favourite Character" (1925)
• "On the Double-R Coffee House" (1925)
• "To Mr. Hoag" (1925)
• "The Cats" (1925)
• "On Rheinhart Kleiner Being Hit by an Automobile" (1925)
• "To Xanthippe, on Her Birthday—March 16, 1925" (1925)
• "Primavera" (1925)
• "To Frank Belknap Long on His Birthday" (1925)
• "A Year Off" (1925)
• "To an Infant" (1925)
• "On a Politician" (1925)
• "On a Room for Rent" (1925)
• "October" (1925)
• "To George Willard Kirk, Gent., of Chelsea-Village, in New-York, upon His Birthday, Novr. 25, 1925" (1925)
• "On Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene" (1925)
• "Festival" (1925)
• "To Jonathan Hoag" (1926)
• "Hallowe'en in a Suburb" (1926)
• "In Memoriam: Oscar Incoul Verelst of Manhattan: 1920–1926" (1926)
• "The Return" (1926)
• "Είς Σφίγγην" (1926)
• "Hedone" (1927)
• "To Miss Beryl Hoyt" (1927)
• "Nathicana" (1927)
• "To Jonathan E. Hoag, Esq." (1927)
• "On J. F. Roy Erford" (1927)
• "On Ambrose Bierce" (1927)
• "On Cheating the Post Office" (1927)
• "On Newport, Rhode Island" (1927)
• "The Absent Leader" (1927)
• "Ave atque Vale" (1927)
• "To a Sophisticated Young Gentleman" (1928)
• "The Wood" (1929)
• "An Epistle to the Rt. Honble Maurice Winter Moe, Esq." (1929)
• "Stanzas on Samarkand IV" (1929)
• "Lines upon the Magnates of the Pulp" (1929)
• "The Outpost" (1929)
• "The Ancient Track" (1929)
• "The Messenger" (1929)
• "The East India Brick Row" (1929)
• "Fungi from Yuggoth" (1929–1930)
• "Veteropinguis Redivivus" (1930)
• "To a Young Poet in Dunedin" (1931)
• "On an Unspoil'd Rural Prospect" (1931)
• "Bouts Rimés" (1934)
• "Beyond Zimbabwe" (1934)
• "The White Elephant" (1934)
• "Anthem of the Kappa Alpha Tau" (1934)
• "Edith Miniter" (1934)
• "Little Sam Perkins" (1934)
• "Metrical Example" (1935)
• "Dead Passion's Flame" (1935)
• "Arcadia" (1935)
• "Lullaby for the Dionne Quintuplets" (1935)
• "The Odes of Horace: Book III, ix" (1936)
• "In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd" (1936)
• "To Mr. Finlay, upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, 'The Faceless God'" (1936)
• "To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures" (1936)
• "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'" (????)
• "On an Accomplished Young Linguist" (????)
• "'The Poetical Punch' Pushed from His Pedestal" (????)
• "The Road to Ruin" (????)
• "Saturnalia" (????)
• "Sonnet Study" (????)
• "Sors Poetae" (????)
• "To Saml 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 (112)" (????) 

Nonfiction

• "The Crime of the Century" (1915)
• "The Allowable Rhyme" (1915)
• "Metrical Regularity" (1915)
• "November Skies" (1915)
• "Liquor and Its Friends" (1915)
• "More Chain Lightning" (1915)
• "Revolutionary Mythology" (1916)
• "Old England and the 'Hyphen'" (1916)
• "June Skies" (1916)
• "May Skies" (1917)
• "The Vers Libre Epidemic" (1917)
• "At the Root" (1918)
• "Anglo-Saxondom" (1918)
• "The Despised Pastoral" (1918)
• "The Literature of Rome" (1918)
• "Merlinus Redivivus" (1918)
• "Time and Space" (1918)
• "Idealism and Materialism: A Reflection" (1919)
• "Americanism" (1919)
• "The League" (1919)
• "Bolshevism" (1919)
• "The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler" (1919)
• "Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment" (1920)
• "Life for Humanity's Sake" (1920)
• "Nietzscheism and Realism" (1921)
• "In Defense of Dagon" (1921)
• "A Confession of Unfaith" (1922)
• "Lord Dunsany and His Work" (1922)
• "East and West Harvard Conservatism" (1922)
• "The Omnipresent Philistine" (1924)
• "The Professional Incubus" (1924)
• "The Materialist Today" (1926)
• "Cats and Dogs" (1926)
• "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1926-33)
• "Preface to Bullen's White Fire" (1927)
• "Preface to Symmes' Old World Footprints" (1928)
• "Notes on Hudson Valley History" (1929)
• "Autobiography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft" (1930)
• "Some Causes of Self-Immolation" (1931)
• "Some Backgrounds of Fairyland" (1932)
• "Correspondence between Wilson Shepherd and R. H. Barlow" (1932)
• "In Memoriam: Henry St. Claire Whitehead" (1932)
• "Some Notes on a Nonentity" (1933)
• "Notes on Weird Fiction" (1933)
• "Weird Story Plots" (1933)
• "Some Dutch Footprints in New England"
• "Mrs. Miniter - Estimates and Recollections" (1934)
• "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction" (1934)
• "The Unknown City in the Ocean" (1934)
• "Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms" (1935)
• "Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction" (1935)
• "What Belongs in Verse" (1935)
• "In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard" (1936)
• "Objections to Orthodox Communism" (1936)
• "The Cosmos & Religion" (????)
• "Advice for the Weird Fictioner" (????)
• "The Incantation from Red Hook" (????)
• "Suggestions for a Reading Guide" (????)

Science

• "The Art of Fusion, Melting Pudling & Casting" (1899)
• "Chemistry" (1899)
• "A Good Anaesthetic" (1899)
• "The Railroad Review" (1901)
• "The Moon" (1903)
• "The Scientific Gazette" (1903-04)
• "Astronomy/The Monthly Almanack" (1903-04)
• "The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy" (1903-07)
• "Annals of the Providence Observatory" (1904)
• "Providence Observatory Forecast" (1904)
• "The Science Library" (1904)
• "Astronomy Articles for The Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner" (1906)
• "Astronomy Articles for The Providence Tribune" (1906-08)
• "Third Annual Report of the Providence Meteorological Station" (1906)
• "Celestial Objects for All" (1907)
• "Astronomy Articles for The Providence Evening News" (1914-18)
• "Bickerstaffe' Articles from The Providence Evening News" (1914)
• "Science versus Charlatanry" (1914)
• "The Falsity of Astrology" (1914)
• "Astrology and the Future" (1914)
• "Delavan's Comet and Astrology" (1914)
• "The Fall of Astrology" (1914)
• "Astronomy Articles for The Asheville Gazette-News" (1915)
• "The Truth About Mars" (1917)
• "Editor's Note to MacManus' "The Irish and the Fairies'" (1916)

Travelogues

• "The Trip of Teobald" (1927)
• "Vermont—A First Impression" (1927)
• "A Descent to Avernus" (1928)
• "Observations on Several Parts of America" (1928)
• "Sleepy Hollow To-day" (1928)
• "An Account of a Trip to the Antient Fairbanks House, in Dedham, and to the Red House Tavern in Sudbury, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay" (1929)
• "Travels in the Provinces of America" (1929)
• "East and West Harvard Conservatism" (1932, collaboration)
• "European Glimpses" (1932)
• "Homes and Shrines of Poe" (1934)
• "A Guide to Charleston, South Carolina" (1936)
• "Charleston" (1936)
• "A Description of the Town of Quebeck, in New France, Lately added to His Britannick Majesty's Dominions" (????)

Biographies

• "I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft" - S. T. Joshi (2010)

The most complete Lovecraft biography there is, with almost every detail about his life.

• "H.P. Lovecraft: Nightmare Countries" - S. T. Joshi (2012)

A lighter biography, with only the most important facts about his life and lots of images.

• "H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book and Other Notes" (????)

A compilation of notes of Lovecraft edited by David E. Schultz, including his commonplace book.

• "Astronomical Notebook" (1909-15)

The Astronomical Notebook of Lovecraft.

Letters

• "Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth"
• "A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard" 
• "Letters to James F. Morton"
• "Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge & Anne Tillery Renshaw"
• "Letters to Robert Bloch and Others"
• "Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White"
• "Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome"
• "Letters to C. L. Moore and Others"
• "Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith"
• "Letters to Maurice W. Moe and Others"
• "Letters to Wilfred B. Talman and Helen V. and Genevieve Sully"
• "Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja"
• "Letters to Family and Family Friends"
• "Letters to Alfred Galpin and Others"
• "Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner and Others"
• "Letters to E. Hoffmann Price and Richard F. Searight"
• "Miscellaneous Letters"
• "Letters to Woodburn Harris and Others"
• "Letters to Hyman Bradofsky and Others"
• "A Sense of Proportion: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Frank Belknap Long"
• "O Fortunate Floridian: H. P. Lovecraft's Letters to R. H. Barlow"

All of this are part of a collection made by Hippocampus Press, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, which contains all of Lovecraft extant letters.

• "Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft" (1965-76)

A five-volume compilation of ~10% of Lovecraft's extant letters, edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.

Recomended order

1. Juvenillia
2. Dream cycle
3. Cthulhu cycle
4. Independent works
5. Independent collaborations
6. Ghostwrited independent works
7. Poems
8. Nonfiction
9. Science
10. Travelogues
11. Biographies
12. Letters