Books & Works
Juvenilia
Early experiments, lost juvenilia, and apprentice tales from childhood and adolescence.
13 dossiers · Browse other classifications on the main library index.
MISK-LIB-1897-001
DOSSIERThe Noble Eavesdropper
Written circa 1897 · First pub. nonextant
A childhood tale known only by title; no manuscript survives in the archive.
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MISK-LIB-1959-002
DOSSIERThe Little Glass Bottle
Written 1897 · First pub. 1959
Among the earliest surviving fictions: a pirate yarn in miniature, preserved only posthumously.
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MISK-LIB-1959-003
DOSSIERThe Secret Cave or John Lees Adventure
Written 1898 · First pub. 1959
A boyhood adventure recovered decades after the author’s death.
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MISK-LIB-1959-004
DOSSIERThe Mystery of the Grave-Yard
Written 1898 · First pub. 1959
Graveyard intrigue from a nine-year-old hand, later filed among lost juvenilia.
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MISK-LIB-1898-005
DOSSIERThe Haunted House
Written 1898/1902 · First pub. nonextant
A lost juvenile ghost tale; existence inferred from family records.
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MISK-LIB-1898-006
DOSSIERThe Secret of the Grave
Written 1898/1902 · First pub. nonextant
Another childhood manuscript presumed destroyed or lost.
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MISK-LIB-1898-007
DOSSIERJohn, the Detective
Written 1898/1902 · First pub. nonextant
A detective sketch from boyhood, surviving only as a bibliographic ghost.
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MISK-LIB-1959-008
DOSSIERThe Mysterious Ship
Written 1902 · First pub. 1959
Nautical juvenilia printed only after Lovecraft’s death.
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MISK-LIB-1918-009
DOSSIERThe Beast in the Cave
Written 1905 · First pub. 1918
A lone wanderer meets something in the dark that may no longer be human.
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MISK-LIB-1907-010
DOSSIERThe Picture
Written 1907 · First pub. nonextant
A lost juvenile work; do not confuse with later mature tales of portraiture.
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MISK-LIB-1916-011
DOSSIERThe Alchemist
Written 1908 · First pub. 1916
Curse and hereditary doom in a castle: apprentice Gothic before the cosmos opened.
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MISK-LIB-1917-014
DOSSIERA Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Written 1917 · First pub. 1917
Eighteenth-century pastiche: a youthful jeu d’esprit in borrowed wig and ink.
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MISK-LIB-1920-032
DOSSIERLife and Death
Written 1920? · First pub. lost
Listed as lost; no reliable text survives.
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