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H.P. Lovecraft Books in Order
H.P. Lovecraft is a renowned American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. His groundbreaking cosmic horror concept posits that life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien, threatening the sanity of those who dare to reason. His Cthulhu Mythos, a series of interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, has garnered a devoted cult following, alongside the fictional Necronomicon, a grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Lovecraft's works are marked by their pessimistic and cynical tone, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christianity. His protagonists' fleeting glimpses of ultimate reality serve as a mirror-opposite to traditional gnosis and mysticism. Lovecraft's influence has grown exponentially since his life, earning him a place as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, drawing comparisons to the legendary Edgar Allan Poe.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of H.P. Lovecraft's book series? H.P. Lovecraft has written 13 book series. The most notable is the Akashic Noir series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by H.P. Lovecraft
- #1
San Francisco Noir(2002) - #2
Seattle Noir(2003) - #3
Bronx Noir(2003) - #4
Brooklyn Noir(2004) - #5
Brooklyn Noir 2(2005) - #6
Chicago Noir(2005) - #7
Dublin Noir(2005) - #8
Manhattan Noir(2006) - #9
Miami Noir(2006) - #10
D.C. Noir(2006) - #11
Baltimore Noir(2006) - #12
Twin Cities Noir(2006) - #13
London Noir(2006) - #14
New Orleans Noir(2007) - #15
Los Angeles Noir(2007) - #16
Wall Street Noir(2007) - #17
Havana Noir(2007) - #18
Detroit Noir(2007) - #19
Queens Noir(2008) - #20
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth(2008) - #21
Toronto Noir(2008) - #22
Las Vegas Noir(2008) - #23
Trinidad Noir(2008) - #24
D.C. Noir 2(2008) - #25
Manhattan Noir 2(2008) - #26
Paris Noir(2008) - #27
Istanbul Noir(2008) - #28
Boston Noir(2009) - #29
Rome Noir(2009) - #30
San Francisco Noir 2(2009) - #31
Portland Noir(2009) - #32
Delhi Noir(2009) - #33
Phoenix Noir(2009) - #34
Los Angeles Noir 2(2010) - #35
Mexico City Noir(2010) - #36
Richmond Noir(2010) - #37
Orange County Noir(2010) - #38
Indian Country Noir(2010) - #39
Moscow Noir(2010) - #40
Lone Star Noir(2010) - #41
Philadelphia Noir(2010) - #42
Haiti Noir(2010) - #43
Copenhagen Noir(2010) - #44
Pittsburgh Noir(2011) - #45
San Diego Noir(2011) - #46
Barcelona Noir(2011) - #47
Cape Cod Noir(2011) - #48
New Jersey Noir(2011) - #49
Staten Island Noir(2012) - #50When They Are Done With Us(2012)
- #51
Mumbai Noir(2012) - #52
Long Island Noir(2012) - #53
Venice Noir(2012) - #54
Kingston Noir(2012) - #55
St. Petersburg Noir(2012) - #56
Kansas City Noir(2012) - #57
Boston Noir 2(2012) - #58
USA Noir(2013) - #59
Manila Noir(2013) - #60
Buffalo Noir(2013) - #61
Dallas Noir(2013) - #62
Haiti Noir 2(2013) - #63
Singapore Noir(2014) - #64
Prison Noir(2014) - #65
Tel Aviv Noir(2014) - #66
Tehran Noir(2014) - #67
Belfast Noir(2014) - #68
Helsinki Noir(2014) - #69
Rio Noir(2014) - #70
Providence Noir(2015) - #71
Chicago Noir: The Classics(2015) - #72
Memphis Noir(2015) - #73
Zagreb Noir(2015) - #74
Marseille Noir(2015) - #75
Beirut Noir(2015) - #76
New Orleans Noir: The Classics(2016) - #77
Stockholm Noir(2016) - #78
Brussels Noir(2016) - #79
Mississippi Noir(2016) - #80
St. Louis Noir(2016) - #81
Prague Noir(2016) - #82
San Juan Noir(2016) - #83
Oakland Noir(2017) - #84
Trinidad Noir: The Classics(2017) - #85
Atlanta Noir(2017) - #86
New Haven Noir(2017) - #87
Montana Noir(2017) - #88
Buenos Aires Noir(2017) - #89
Montreal Noir(2017) - #90
Berlin Noir(2018) - #91
São Paulo Noir(2018) - #92
Santa Cruz Noir(2018) - #93
Lagos Noir(2018) - #94
Marrakech Noir(2018) - #95
Baghdad Noir(2018) - #96
Vancouver Noir(2018) - #97
Sydney Noir(2018) - #98
Hong Kong Noir(2018) - #99
Amsterdam Noir(2019) - #100
Milwaukee Noir(2019) - #101
Houston Noir(2019) - #102
Nairobi Noir(2020) - #103
Columbus Noir(2020) - #104
Santa Fe Noir(2020) - #105
Alabama Noir(2020) - #106
Berkeley Noir(2020) - #107
Addis Ababa Noir(2020) - #108
Tampa Bay Noir(2020) - #109
Miami Noir: The Classics(2020) - #110
Accra Noir(2020) - #111
Belgrade Noir(2020) - #112
Palm Springs Noir(2021) - #113
Paris Noir: The Suburbs(2022) - #114
Denver Noir(2022) - #115
South Central Noir(2022) - #116
Cleveland Noir(2023) - #117
East Jerusalem Noir(2023) - #118
West Jerusalem Noir(2023) - #119
Honolulu Noir(2024) - #120
Sacramento Noir(2025) - #121
Hamburg Noir(2025)
- #1
The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (By: August Derleth)(1959) - #2
The Watchers Out of Time (With: August Derleth)(1974)
- #1
The White Ship(1919) - #2
The Cats of Ulthar(1920) - #3
The Other Gods(1933) - #4
Through the Gates of the Silver Key(1934) - #5
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath(1970)
- #1
Eerie Archives Volume 1 (By: Eando Binder)(2004) - #2
Eerie Archives Volume 3(2010) - #3
Eerie Archives Volume 4 (By: Archie Goodwin,Steve Ditko,Al Williamson,Frank Frazetta,Ernie Colón,Alex Toth,Gray Marrow)(2010) - #4
Eerie Archives Volume 5 (By: Frank Frazetta)(2010) - #5
Eerie Archives Volume 6 (By: Archie Goodwin,Doug Moench,Nicola Cuti)(2011) - #6
Eerie Archives Volume 7 (By: Marv Wolfman,Richard Corben,Bruce Jones,Steve Englehart,Doug Moench,Ernie Colón,Dave Cockrum)(2011) - #7
Eerie Archives Volume 10 (By: Esteban Maroto,Bill DuBay,Al Milgrom,Doug Moench,Steve Skeates,Jack Butterworth,John Jacobson)(2012) - #8
Eerie Archives Volume 11 (By: Al Milgrom,Rich Margopoulos,Steve Skeates)(2012) - #9
Eerie Archives Volume 12 (By: Richard Corben)(2013) - #10
Eerie Archives Volume 13 (By: Esteban Maroto)(2013) - #11
Eerie Archives Volume 14 (By: Bernie Wrightson)(2013) - #12
Eerie Archives Volume 15 (By: Philip Simon)(2014) - #13
Eerie Archives Volume 16 (By: Richard Corben,Carmine Infantino)(2014) - #14
Eerie Archives Volume 17 (By: Joe Brancatelli,Gerry Boudreau,Cary Bates)(2014) - #15
Eerie Archives Volume 18 (By: Bernie Wrightson,Alex Niño,Richard Corben,Bruce Jones)(2015) - #16
Eerie Archives Volume 19 (By: Alex Niño,Richard Corben,Bruce Jones,Bill DuBay,Budd Lewis,José Ortiz)(2015) - #17
Eerie Archives Volume 20 (By: Alex Niño,Bruce Jones,Bill DuBay,Russ Heath,José Ortiz)(2015) - #18
Eerie ArchivesVolume 21 (By: Larry Hama,Jim Starlin)(2016) - #19
Eerie Archives Volume 22 (By: Alfredo Alcalá,Larry Hama,Bruce Jones,Pablo Marcos)(2016) - #20
Eerie Archives Volume 23 (By: Paul Gulacy,Bruce Jones,Jason Henderson)(2017) - #21
Eerie Archives Volume 24 (By: Jim Stenstrum,E.R. Cruz,Víctor de la Fuente,Carlos Jimenez)(2018) - #22
Eerie Archives Volume 25 (By: Don McGregor,Budd Lewis,Víctor de la Fuente)(2019) - #23
Eerie Archives Volume 26 (By: Archie Goodwin,William DuBay,Víctor de la Fuente,Rich Margopoulos)(2019) - #24
Eerie Archives Volume 27 (By: William DuBay,Don McGregor,Bud Lewis,Rudy Nebres)(2019) - #25
Swords & Sorcery(1963) - #26
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1(1969) - #27
Summoned From The Tomb(1973) - #28
Sea Tales of Terror(1974) - #29
Beyond Midnight(1976) - #30
Weird Legacies(1977) - #31
65 Great Spine Chillers(1982) - #32
Great Fantasy(1983) - #33
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader(1987) - #34
Volume I: The Color of Evil(1987) - #35
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats(1988) - #36
Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield(1990) - #37
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror(1993) - #38The Giant Book of Zombies(1993)
- #39
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories(1993) - #40
The Mammoth Book of Zombies(1993) - #41
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories(1993) - #42
100 Wild Little Weird Tales(1994) - #43
Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear(1994) - #44
The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft(1994) - #45
Sea-Cursed(1994) - #46
The Necronomicon(1996) - #47
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares(1997) - #48
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters(2002) - #49
Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V(2006) - #50
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural(2006) - #51Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction(2007)
- #52
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad(2008) - #53
Dancing with the Dark(2009) - #54
The Horror in the Museum(2009) - #55
The Dead That Walk(2009) - #56
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within(2010) - #57
The Lovecraft Anthology, Volume 1(2011) - #58
50 Classic Novellas(2011) - #59
Horror for the Holidays(2011) - #60
The Lovecraft Anthology, Volume 2(2012) - #61
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror(2012) - #62
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack(2012) - #63
The Steampunk Megapack(2013) - #64
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth(2013) - #65
Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead(2013) - #66
Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification(2013) - #67
The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction(2013) - #68
The Baen Big Book of Monsters(2014) - #69
Red Sky(2014) - #70
Fossil Lake II(2015) - #71
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories(2015) - #72
Tales of Horror & Suspense(2015) - #73
Legacy of the Reanimator(2015) - #74
Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve(2015) - #75
Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats(2017) - #76
Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar(2017) - #77
50 Halloween Stories You Have to Read Before You Die(2017) - #78
50 Eternal Masterpieces of Horror Stories(2017) - #79
Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep(2018) - #80
Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches(2018) - #81
The Weird Fiction Collection #1(2018) - #82
What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween(2018) - #83
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3(2019) - #84
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die(2019) - #85
Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection(2020) - #86
Thoughts and Pictures(2020) - #87
Classic Cat Stories(2020) - #88
Wonder and Glory Forever(2020) - #89
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror(2021) - #90
The Colour Out of Deathlehem(2021) - #91
Grimoire(2022)
- #1
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror (With: Joe R. Lansdale)(2012)
- #1
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft (With: Leslie Klinger)(2014) - #2
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (With: Leslie Klinger)(2019)
- #1
Supernatural Horror in Literature(1927) - #2
Lovecraft at Last: The Master of Horror in His Own Words (With: Willis Conover)(1927) - #3Selected Letters I, 1911-1924(1964)
- #4
Selected Letters II, 1925-1929(1965) - #5
Selected Letters III, 1929-1931(1971) - #6
Selected Letters IV, 1932-1934(1976) - #7Selected Letters V, 1934-1937(1976)
- #8
Uncollected Letters(1986) - #9
Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H.P. Lovecraft(1987) - #10
Letters to Henry Kuttner(1991) - #11
Letters to Richard F. Searight(1992) - #12
Letters to Robert Bloch(1993) - #13
Letters to Samuel Loveman & Vincent Starrett(1994) - #14
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft(1996) - #15
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft(1997) - #16
More Annotated Lovecraft(1999) - #17
Lord of a Visible World(2000) - #18
Letters to Alfred Galpin(2002) - #19
Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei(2002) - #20
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 1: Amateur Journalism(2004) - #21
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 2: Literary Criticism(2004) - #22
Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner(2005) - #23
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 3: Science(2005) - #24
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol. 4: Travel(2005) - #25
Collected Essays of H.P. Lovecraft: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany(2006) - #26
Creeping Dementia(2007) - #27
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre(2007) - #28
Collected Essays(2008) - #29
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 1(2009) - #30
Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Vol. 2(2009) - #31
Letters to James F. Morton(2011) - #32
Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw(2014) - #33
Letters to Robert Bloch and Others(2015) - #34
Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White(2016) - #35
Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome(2016)
- #1Nemesis(1918)
- #1
The Unnamable(1925)
- #1The Shadow Out of Time(1936)
- #2
At the Mountains of Madness: A Graphic Novel (By: Dan Lockwood)(2010) - #3
Aama Vol. 1: The Smell of Warm Dust (By: Frederik Peeters)(2011) - #4
The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume II (By: Simon Spurrier)(2012) - #5
Aama Vol. 2: The Invisible Throng: 2. the Invisible Throng (By: Frederik Peeters)(2012) - #6
Deadbeats (By: Chris Lackey,Chad Fifer)(2012) - #7
Aama Vol. 3: The Desert of Mirrors: 3. The Desert of Mirrors (By: Frederik Peeters)(2013) - #8
Aama Vol. 4: You Will Be Glorious, My Daughter: 4. You Will Be Amazing, My Daughter (By: Frederik Peeters)(2014) - #9
The King in Yellow (By: Robert W. Chambers)(2015) - #10
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 2 (By: M.R. James)(2017) - #11
I Feel Machine (By: Shaun Tan,Box Brown,Tillie Walden,Krent Able,Erik Svetoft,Julian Hanshaw)(2018) - #12
I Feel Love (By: Kelsey Wroten,Benjamin Marra,Krent Able,Cat Sims,Anya Davidson,Julian Hanshaw)(2021)
- #1
Shadows Over Innsmouth (By: Stephen Jones)(1994) - #2
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth (By: Hugh B. Cave,Stephen Jones)(2005) - #3Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth(2013)
- #1The Case of Charles Dexter Ward(1941)
- #2The Alchemist(1916)
- #3
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson(1917) - #4
The Beast in the Cave(1918) - #5
Beyond the Wall of Sleep(1919) - #6Memory(1919)
- #7Dagon(1919)
- #8
The Doom That Came to Sarnath(1920) - #9The Statement of Randolph Carter(1920)
- #10
The Street(1920) - #11Nyarlathotep(1920)
- #12
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family / The White Ape(1921) - #13
The Terrible Old Man(1921) - #14The Nameless City(1921)
- #15
Ex Oblivione(1921) - #16
The Picture in the House(1921) - #17
The Tree(1921) - #18
Herbert West: Reanimator(1922) - #19Celephais(1922)
- #20The Music of Erich Zann(1922)
- #21
What the Moon Brings(1922) - #22Hypnos(1923)
- #23
Under The Pyramids(1924) - #24
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs: Fantasy Tale: Under the Pyramids (With: Harry Houdini)(1924) - #25
The Hound(1924) - #26
In the Vault(1925) - #27
The Temple(1925) - #28
The Festival(1925) - #29The Moon-Bog(1926)
- #30The Outsider(1926)
- #31The Horror at Red Hook(1927)
- #32The Colour Out of Space(1927)
- #33Pickman's Model(1927)
- #34
The Call of Cthulhu(1928) - #35
Cool Air(1928) - #36
The Silver Key(1929) - #37The Mound(1930)
- #38
The Strange High House in the Mist(1931) - #39Dreams in the Witch-House(1933)
- #40
The Tree on the Hill (With: Duane W. Rimel)(1934) - #41
From Beyond(1934) - #42The Quest of Iranon(1935)
- #43At the Mountains of Madness(1936)
- #44
The Shadow Over Innsmouth(1936) - #45The Shadow Out of Time(1936)
- #46
The Haunter of the Dark(1936) - #47The Shunned House(1937)
- #48
The Thing on the Doorstep(1937) - #49
The Lurking Fear / Cry Horror!(1937) - #50
History of the Necronomicon(1938) - #51
Ibid(1938) - #52
Azathoth(1938) - #53The Book(1938)
- #54
The Descendant(1938) - #55
The Evil Clergyman(1939) - #56In the Walls of Eryx(1939)
- #57The Very Old Folk(1940)
- #58Sweet Ermengarde(1943)
- #59
The Transition of Juan Romero(1944) - #60
The Peabody Heritage(1957) - #61The Mystery of the Grave-Yard(1959)
- #62The Little Glass Bottle(1959)
- #63The Secret Cave(1959)
- #64Old Bugs(1959)
- #65
The Mysterious Ship(1959) - #66
The Rats in the Walls(2017) - #67The Dunwich Horror(2017)
- #68The Tomb(2017)
- #69
He(2017) - #70The Whisperer in Darkness(2020)
- #71
Polaris(2020)
- #1
Weird Tales 1 (By: Lin Carter)(1981) - #2
Weird Tales 2 (With: Robert Bloch,Tanith Lee,Robert E. Howard)(1981) - #3
Weird Tales 3 (By: Robert Bloch,Tanith Lee,Robert E. Howard,Evangeline Walton)(1981) - #4
Weird Tales 4 (By: Ray Bradbury,Robert E. Howard)(1983)
About H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft is a renowned American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. His groundbreaking cosmic horror concept posits that life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien, threatening the sanity of those who dare to reason. His Cthulhu Mythos, a series of interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, has garnered a devoted cult following, alongside the fictional Necronomicon, a grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Lovecraft's works are marked by their pessimistic and cynical tone, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christianity. His protagonists' fleeting glimpses of ultimate reality serve as a mirror-opposite to traditional gnosis and mysticism. Lovecraft's influence has grown exponentially since his life, earning him a place as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, drawing comparisons to the legendary Edgar Allan Poe.
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