Hailed as the 20th century Poe, H. P. Lovecraft wrote fantasy reminiscent of Dunsany and horror in the best tradition of Poe, Blackwood, and Machen. He singled out the best elements in the work of his literary masters and blended them into a unique style of his own -- a style that has, in turn, had many imitators and many more admirers. It was in a gray area between horror and science fiction that Lovecraft excelled and made his contribution, an area he called "cosmic horror."

The complete, uncut, revised edition of the definitive biography by the world's leading authority on Lovecraft.

The third Penguin Classics volume of Lovecraft's fiction, using the Joshi texts. With Introduction and Notes by S. T. Joshi. Others:

• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Tales

Fear and Fantasy! Featuring "Herbert West – Reanimator" by Richard Corben, Rick Geary, J.B. Bonivert, Mark A. Nelson and R.K. Sloane. HPL classics "Fungi From Yuggoth" and "The Outsider." Plus more illustrations and comics by thirty great artists, including Todd Schorr, Gahan Wilson, Tom Sutton, Matt Howarth and Maxon Crumb. Introduction "Illustrating Lovecraft" by Gahan Wilson. 144 pages, b&w, color cover, $10. Order from the publisher at www.graphicclassics.com

At last! The complete poetry of Lovecraft in a definitive edition, with introduction and notes. The poems are grouped by category: Juvenilia, Fantasy and Horror, Occasional Verse, Satire, Seasonal and Topographical, Amateur Affairs, Politics and Society, Personal, Fragments. Introduction by S. T. Joshi, Notes, A Chronology of Lovecraft's Poems, Index of titles, Index of first lines. Also includes "Alfredo, A Play." Hardcover or paperback, 557 pages. Out of print.

Lovecraft's last major story, considered by some to be his finest, now restored from the original manuscript not discovered until 1995! With a superb cover (original art from Astounding Stories, June 1936), introduction, notes and an early draft. List: $15, tbp, 136pp. Order from Mythos Books. A MUST!!

An abridged version of Joshi's massive, definitive biography of Lovecraft. Order from Amazon

The long-awaited volume is now available! This is the first publication from Hippocampus Press and a handsome edition indeed! Valuable introduction and extensive commentary by the editor. Paperback, 175pp.

An "autobiography" of Lovecraft culled from his voluminous correspondence and structured by the editors.

Online Texts

• Supernatural Horror in Literature -- Lovecraft's seminal essay (written 1927 and 1933-1935), with links to annotations and writings by the authors cited. At Donald Correll's The Road to Great Cthulhu site.
  
  
• Many of the sites below also include Lovecraft texts.
  

Lovecraft Sites

• The H. P. Lovecraft Archive -- by Donovan K. Loucks, the best Lovecraft site on the web!
  
  
• Cthulhuwho1.com -- A Lovecraftian Gateway to Images and Audio -- by Will Hart contains many photos and audio clips from authors in the Lovecraft circle.
  

Filmography

• Lovecraft in Film at Internet Movie Database
  
  

Cthulhu Mythos / Necronomicon

• The Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos -- lists all of the major works in the sprawling chaos that is the Cthulhu Mythos, by E. Paul Berglund, "the unofficial custodial historian and bibliographer of the Mythos"
  
• MythosCon January 6th-9th, 2011 will be held in Phoenix, AZ with guests Joshi, Bob Price, Alan Foster, Dave Drake, Don Burleson, Ken Faig et al.

Genealogy

• Moshassuck Press, editor/proprietor Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. Email: moshasuk@interaccess.com Titles in print include:
  
  • Kenneth Faig's Some Descendants of Asaph Phillips and Esther Whipple of Foster, Rhode Island (1993-4)
  a genealogy of H.P. Lovecraft's branch of the Rhode Island Phillips family
  • Franklin Chase Clark's Susan's Obituary (1996)
  a novel by Lovecraft's uncle, with an introduction detailing Dr. Clark's relationship with Lovecraft.
  Past offerings (now out of print) have included works by Kenneth Faig; Lovecraft's amateur associates W. Paul Cook, Edith Miniter, and Duane W. Rimel; and work by scholars Dirk W. Mosig, Sam Moskowitz and Edward W. O'Brien, Jr.

Scholarship

• John Hay Library at Brown University, Providence, RI houses the Lovecraft Collection of his manuscripts and books. Another notable archive of letters is at the New York Public Library.
• S.T. Joshi is a leading Lovecraft scholar who has authored a great number of books on Lovecraft, including the definitive bibliography, an index to Arkham House's five volumes of letters -- and authoritative editions of Lovecraft's writings based on manuscript research that corrected thousands of printing and textual errors that had crept into Lovecraft's publications over the years. He has published the massive H.P. Lovecraft: A Life (Necronomicon Press).
  
  Joshi and David Schultz are working with Donovan K. Loucks and others to bring a large portion of HPL's writings to the World Wide Web, based on their exhaustive transcriptions from the John Hay Library and other sources. Schultz edited Lovecraft's Commonplace Book (1987) and, with Joshi, has produced a number of volumes of Lovecraft letters to Henry Kuttner, Richard F. Searight, and Robert Bloch, among numerous other achievements. Their effort and dedication have been truly Olympic and their contribution to present and future scholarship is enormous. They welcome contact from other scholars and from volunteers to help with their many projects involving such writers as George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce and Clark Ashton Smith as well as Lovecraft. They can be reached by email: David Schultz at d_schultz@ameritech.net; S. T. Joshi at stjoshi45@hotmail.com.

Related Sites

• Hart Crane -- Biographical notes, bibliography and links to related sites of this now-established American modern gay poet whom Lovecraft met in New York
  
  
• Joyce Carol Oates -- a recognized author and admirer of Lovecraft
  
  
• Nicholas Roerich Museum -- work by the Russian artist and mystic whose Tibetan landscapes inspired Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness