Throughout his adult life, Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor. He was virtually unknown during his lifetime and was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty at the age of 46, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction. Among his most celebrated tales are "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Rats in the Walls",
At the Mountains of Madness,
The Shadow over Innsmouth, and
The Shadow Out of Time. His writings form the basis of the Cthulhu Mythos, which has inspired a large body of pastiches across several mediums drawing on Lovecraft's characters, setting and themes, constituting a wider subgenre known as Lovecraftian horror.
It includes the year each story was written.
- The Tomb (1917)
- Dagon (1917)
- Polaris (1918)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
- Memory (1919)
- Old Bugs (1919)
- The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
- The White Ship (1919)
- The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
- The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
- The Terrible Old Man (1920)
- The Tree (1920)
- The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
- The Temple (1920)
- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
- The Street (1920)
- Celephaïs (1920)
- From Beyond (1920)
- Nyarlathotep (1920)
- The Picture in the House (1920)
- Ex Oblivione (1921)
- The Nameless City (1921)
- The Quest of Iranon (1921)
- The Moon-Bog (1921)
- The Outsider (1921)
- The Other Gods (1921)
- The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
- Herbert West — Reanimator (1922)
- Hypnos (1922)
- What the Moon Brings (1922)
- Azathoth (1922)
- The Hound (1922)
- The Lurking Fear (1922)
- The Rats in the Walls (1923)
- The Unnamable (1923)
- The Festival (1923)
- The Shunned House (1924)
- The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
- He (1925)
- In the Vault (1925)
- The Descendant (1926)
- Cool Air (1926)
- The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- Pickman's Model (1926)
- The Silver Key (1926)
- The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
- The Colour Out of Space (1927)
- The Very Old Folk (1927)
- The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)
- The History of the Necronomicon (1927)
- Ibid (1928)
- The Dunwich Horror (1928)
- The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
- At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
- The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
- The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
- The Evil Clergyman (1933)
- The Book (1933)
- The Shadow out of Time (1934)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
