H.P. Lovecraft and I.N.J. Culbard. Abrams/SelfMadeHero, $19.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-90683-835-5
British Fantasy Award–winning artist Culbard (At the Mountains of Madness) brings his skill as an adapter to Lovecraft's chilling tale of horror and mistaken identity in this fine graphic version. Opening in media res, the story begins with the...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author , read by Wayne June. Audio Realms/Wildside $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8095-6268-8
Volume one contains The Dunwich Horror
and The Call of Cthulhu
, two chilling tales from one of the original masters of horror. (Volume Two contains The Shadow Over Innsmouth
and Dagon
.) The Dunwich Horror
follows the tragic events in Dunwich...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author , read by Wayne June. Audio Realms/Wildside $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8095-7189-5
Contemporary horror owes many of its plot devices to the original master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft, and this latest volume of his short fiction presents three of those classic pieces. While “The Haunter of the Dark” includes a good mix...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author Del Rey Books $14.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-38421-8
Horror master Lovecraft (1890-1937) frequently used dreams in his tales of the supernatural to evoke fantastic worlds inconceivable to the conscious mind. This repackaging of 25 stories and fragments calls attention to that aspect of Lovecraft's...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author Hippocampus $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9721644-1-2
Chronicles HPL's efforts to improve the poetry and prose of others far less talented than himself.
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author Hippocampus $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9721644-4-3
Contains mostly more formal contributions to the amateur press.
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, Jeffrey K. Potter, Illustrator Arkham House Publishers $30.95 (529p) ISBN 978-0-87054-159-9
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was the premier horror writer of his time, and continues to exert an influence on practitioners of that dark art. Most of his work is unified by a common theme--the Cthulhu (kuh-tool-ew) Mythos--in which gods furtively...
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Various authors, read by various narrators. AudioGO, unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-62064-207-8
This first-rate collection of all things dark and horrifying features 20 classic tales by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker, recommended by horror master Lovecraft (1890–1937). Read by a group of...
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H.P. Lovecraft & I.N.J. Culbard. Sterling, $14.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8042-4
Lovecraft’s At the Mountain of Madness opens with a newspaper announcement of a voyage to Antarctica, immediately followed by the narrator, Professor William Dyer stating his opposition to it. From there, the book launches into the story of Dyer’s...
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Various. Self Made Hero, $19.95 paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-906838-53-9
Lovecraft’s pulp horrors have long proved a trying prospect for those who adapt them into any visual medium, due to the author’s horrific visions being often nebulously defined. His madness-inducing elder gods, their nightmarish half-human offspring
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H.P. Lovecraft, edited by Roger Luckhurst. Oxford Univ., $25.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-19-963957-1
Reviewed by >Peter Cannon. As Stefan Dziemianowicz points out in “Terror Eternal: The Enduring Popularity of H.P. Lovecraft” (PW, July 12, 2010), horror writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) has been enjoying a boom in recent years. He and his work...
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H.P. Lovecraft, read by William Roberts. Naxos AudioBooks, unabridged, four CDs, 4.75 hrs., $28.98 ISBN 978-184-379-638-1
William Roberts gives a smart, enthusiastic reading of these six timeless tales of terror written by the great grandfather of the creepy and macabre. These stories cover a wide range of the strange and supernatural, from outer space invasions and...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor Hippocampus $20 (444p) ISBN 978-0-9721644-2-9
Chronicles HPL's efforts to improve the poetry and prose of others far less talented than himself.
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor Arkham House Publishers $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87054-168-1
Nearly 600 pages of second-level nonfiction by the master of cosmic horror, Lovecraft (1890-1937), might seem too much of a half-good thing. And what is one to think when editor Joshi suggests that the truest body of Lovecraft's writing lies not in...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor Hippocampus $20 (252p) ISBN 978-0-9721644-9-8
Contains mostly more formal contributions to the amateur press.
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor Night Shade Books $40 (557p) ISBN 978-1-892389-15-2
Several Lovecraft poetry volumes have appeared over the years, notably Arkham House's Collected Poems (1963), but here at last is an attractive, scholarly edition that collects every known scrap of verse from the cosmic Yankee's pen. Joshi,...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor, David E. Schultz, Editor Hippocampus $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-9673215-9-2
Lovecraft addicts won't want to miss H.P. Lovecraft: Letters to Alfred Galpin, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. This book contains all of HPL's surviving correspondence to one of his most brilliant disciples from his amateur press days,
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor, August William Derleth, With Arkham House Publishers $19.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-87054-039-4
This last volume of a trilogy represents the culmination of a monumental projectthe bringing into print of Lovecraft's stories in their definitive form, based on manuscripts and notes. This volume also contains the important study, ""Supernatural...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor, David E. Schultz, Editor Hippocampus $15 (140p) ISBN 978-0-9673215-3-0
Lovecraftians will hail the publication of H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. Based on the handwritten manuscript that surfaced in 1995 after being lost for 60 years, this edition of Lovecraft's...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, Various, Author, D. Thin, Editor New York Review of Books $13.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59017-026-7
The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror, selected by D. Thin, collects a dozen otherworldly stories by authors ranging from Edgar Allan Poe (""MS. Found in a Bottle"") to H.P. Lovecraft (the title tale). This choice anthology should help...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, John Jude Palencar, Illustrator, Barbara Hambly, Introduction by Del Rey Books $15 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-38422-5
H.P. Lovecraft. Del Rey, $10 (384p) ISBN 0-345-38422-9 Lovecraft's transformation from beginner to master horror writer is the theme behind this collection of macabre tales, the third in a Del Rey trilogy of Lovecraft's work. It certainly succeeds...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, Donald Wandrei, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor . Night Shade $40 (439p) ISBN 978-1-892389-50-3
For the inaugural volume of their Lovecraft Letters series, editors Joshi and Schultz have chosen wisely and well: first, because the correspondence between H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) and Donald Wandrei (1908–1987), the co-founder of...
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Edited by Leslie S. Klinger. Norton/Liveright, $39.95 (864p) ISBN 978-0-87140-453-4
Klinger’s most controversial claim in this new compilation is that the late horror maestro Lovecraft’s work encapsulates the fears of the average man. Stories such as “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” and “At the Mountains of Madness” seem at best...
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H. P. Lovecraft, Author, Peter Straub, Editor , edited by Peter Straub. Library of America $35 (850p) ISBN 978-1-931082-72-3
Two of H.P. Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth
sonnets appeared in the Library of America's American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. I
(2000). Now Lovecraft (1890–1937), the most important U.S. horror writer since Edgar Allan Poe and
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Fritz Leiber, Author, H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor Wildside Press $19.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-8095-0078-9
Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark, edited by Ben J.S. Szumskyj and S.T. Joshi, collects Lovecraft's letters to Leiber and his wife; Leiber's short stories and poems influenced by Lovecraft; and Leiber's essays on Lovecraft....
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