Books & Works
Major Works
Novellas and long tales that define Lovecraft’s mature voice and cosmic argument.
17 dossiers · Browse other classifications on the main library index.
MISK-LIB-1926-043
DOSSIERThe Outsider
Written 1921 · First pub. 1926
A solitary being climbs toward light and meets its own reflection.
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MISK-LIB-1922-045
DOSSIERThe Music of Erich Zann
Written 1921 · First pub. 1922
A viol plays against the abyss beyond a garret window in Paris.
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MISK-LIB-1922-046
DOSSIERHerbert West–Reanimator
Written 1921/1922 · First pub. 1922
Six episodes of medical blasphemy and cadaverous consequence.
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MISK-LIB-1924-053
DOSSIERThe Rats in the Walls
Written 1923 · First pub. 1924
Exhumed Exham Priory remembers older hungers than Christianity.
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MISK-LIB-1928-061
DOSSIERThe Shunned House
Written 1924 · First pub. 1928
Providence cellar science confronts a vapor and a French exile’s curse.
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MISK-LIB-1928-067
DOSSIERThe Call of Cthulhu
Written 1926 · First pub. 1928
A global dossier of dreams, cults, and something risen in the Pacific.
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MISK-LIB-1927-069
DOSSIERPickman's Model
Written 1926 · First pub. 1927
Boston art and North End tunnels conceal the model behind the canvas.
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MISK-LIB-1943-072
DOSSIERThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Written 1926/1927 · First pub. 1943
Randolph Carter’s epic pilgrimage through the lands of dream.
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MISK-LIB-1941-073
DOSSIERThe Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Written 1927 · First pub. 1941
Providence antiquarianism resurrects a wizard’s eighteenth-century bargain.
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MISK-LIB-1927-074
DOSSIERThe Colour Out of Space
Written 1927 · First pub. 1927
A meteorite leaves a colour no spectrum can hold, and a valley dies.
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MISK-LIB-1929-081
DOSSIERThe Dunwich Horror
Written 1928 · First pub. 1929
A backwoods birth, a sealed library chant, and something on the hillside.
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MISK-LIB-1940-083
DOSSIERThe Mound
Written 1929/1930 · First pub. 1940
A subterranean K’n-yan beneath Oklahoma, ghostwritten for Bishop.
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MISK-LIB-1931-085
DOSSIERThe Whisperer in Darkness
Written 1930 · First pub. 1931
Vermont floods, Mi-Go, and a brain in a cylinder.
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MISK-LIB-1936-086
DOSSIERAt the Mountains of Madness
Written 1931 · First pub. 1936
A doomed Antarctic expedition uncovers the ruins of a non-human civilization older than mankind.
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MISK-LIB-1936-088
DOSSIERThe Shadow over Innsmouth
Written 1931 · First pub. 1936
A bus ticket to a decaying port and a bargain older than New England.
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MISK-LIB-1936-104
DOSSIERThe Shadow Out of Time
Written 1934/1935 · First pub. 1936
Five years stolen from a professor’s life; Yithians and deep time.
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MISK-LIB-1936-110
DOSSIERThe Haunter of the Dark
Written 1935 · First pub. 1936
The Shining Trapezohedron and a writer’s last night in Providence.
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