List of essays, papers, and contributions from HP Lovecraft
The following thematically structured lists contain proven works by HP Lovecraft , which are neither narrative-fictional nor lyrical-poetic work.
Amateur journalism
- A Task for Amateur Journalists (July 1914)
- Department of Public Criticism (November 1914)
- Department of Public Criticism (January 1915)
- Department of Public Criticism (March 1915)
- What is amateur journalism? (March 1915)
- Consolidation's Autopsy (April 1915)
- The Amateur Press (April 1915)
- Editorial (April 1915)
- The Question of the Day (April 1915)
- The Morris Faction (April 1915)
- For President — Leo Fritter (April 1915)
- Introducing Mr. Chester Pierce Munroe (April 1915)
- [Untitled Notes on Amateur Journalism] (April 1915)
- Department of Public Criticism (May 1915)
- Finale (June 1915)
- New Department Proposed: Instruction for the Recruit (June 1915)
- Our Candidate (June 1915)
- Exchanges (June 1915)
- For Historian — Ira A. Cole (June 1915)
- Editorial (July 1915)
- The Conservative and His Critics (July 1915)
- Some Political Phases (July 1915)
- Introducing Mr. John Russell (July 1915)
- In a Major Key (July 1915)
- Amateur Notes (July 1915)
- The Dignity of Journalism (July 1915)
- Department of Public Criticism (September 1915)
- Editorial (October 1915)
- The Conservative and His Critics (October 1915)
- The Youth of Today (October 1915)
- To Impartial Spectator (October 1915)
- [Untitled Notes on Amateur Journalism] (October 1915)
- Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs: II. Andrew Francis Lockhart (October 1915)
- Report of First Vice-President (November 1915)
- Department of Public Criticism (December 1915)
- Systematic Instruction in the United (December 1915)
- United Amateur Press Association: Exponent of Amateur Journalism (1915)
- Introducing Mr. James Pyke (January 1916)
- Report of First Vice-President (January 1916)
- Editorial (February 1916)
- Department of Public Criticism (April 1916)
- Among the New-Comers (May 1916)
- Department of Public Criticism (June 1916)
- Department of Public Criticism (August 1916)
- Department of Public Criticism (September 1916)
- Among the Amateurs (October 1916)
- Concerning “Persia — in Europe” (January 1917)
- Amateur Standards (January 1917)
- A Request (January 1917)
- Department of Public Criticism (March 1917)
- Department of Public Criticism (May 1917)
- A Reply to The Lingerer (June 1917)
- The United's Problem (July 1917)
- Editorially (July 1917)
- The "Other United" (July 1917)
- Department of Public Criticism (July 1917)
- Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs: V. Eleanor J. Barnhart (July 1917)
- News Notes (July 1917)
- President's Message (written September 11, 1917; September 1917)
- President's Message (written October 28, 1917; November 1917)
- President's Message (written January 2, 1918; January 1918)
- Department of Public Criticism (January 1918)
- President's Message (written March 8, 1918; March 1918)
- Department of Public Criticism (March 1918)
- President's Message (written May 6, 1918; May 1918)
- Department of Public Criticism (May 1918)
- Comment (June 1918)
- President's Message (written June 26, 1918; July 1918)
- Amateur Criticism (July 1918)
- The United 1917–1918 (July 1918)
- The Amateur Press Club (July 1918)
- Les Mouches Fantastiques (July 1918)
- Department of Public Criticism (September 1918)
- Department of Public Criticism (November 1918)
- News Notes (November 1918)
- [Letter to the Bureau of Critics] (January 1919)
- Department of Public Criticism (January 1919)
- Department of Public Criticism (March 1919)
- Winifred Virginia Jordan: Associate Editor (April 1919)
- Helene Hoffman Cole-Litterateur (May 1919)
- Department of Public Criticism (May 1919)
- Trimmings (June 1919)
- For Official Editor — Anne Tillery Renshaw (July 1919)
- Amateur Dom (July 1919)
- Looking Backward (February, March, April, May and June 1920)
- For What Does the United Stand? (May 1920)
- The Pseudo-United (May 1920)
- The Conquest of the Hub Club (September 1920)
- [Note in the United Amateur ] (September 1920)
- Official Organ Fund (September 1920)
- News Notes (September 1920)
- Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment (written before September 5, 1920; 1966)
- [Note in the United Amateur ] (November 1920)
- Editorial (November 1920)
- News Notes (November 1920)
- Official Organ Fund (January 1921)
- News Notes (January 1921)
- The United's Policy 1920–1921 (January 1921)
- What Amateurdom and I Have Done for Each Other (written February 21, 1921; August 1937)
- News Notes (March 1921)
- Official Organ Fund (March 1921)
- The Vivisector (March 1921)
- [Letter to John Milton Heins] (April 1921)
- Lucubrations Lovecraftian (April 1921)
- The Vivisector (June 1921)
- The Haverhill Convention (July 1921)
- News Notes (July 1921)
- Within the Gates (written before July 4, 1921; spring 1985)
- The Convention Banquet (written after July 4, 1921; unpublished)
- News Notes (written after July 10, 1921; May 1921)
- [Note in the United Amateur ] (September 1921)
- Editorial (September 1921)
- News Notes (September 1921)
- A Singer of Ethereal Moods and Fancies (September 1921)
- News Notes (November 1921)
- Official Organ Fund (November 1921)
- [Note in the United Amateur ] (November 1921)
- [Letter to John Milton Heins] (written around November 1921; January 1922)
- Editorial (January 1922)
- News Notes (January 1922)
- Rainbow Called Best First Issue (March 1922)
- News Notes (March 1922)
- Official Organ Fund (March 1922)
- The Vivisector (March 1922)
- News Notes (May 1922)
- Official Organ Fund (May 1922)
- [Letter to the NAPA] (written November 30, 1922; November [1922] - January 1923)
- President's Message (written January 11, 1923; November [1922] -January 1923)
- President's Message (written March 7, 1923; March 1923)
- Bureau of Critics (March 1923)
- Rursus Adsumus (March 1923)
- The Vivisector (Spring 1923)
- President's Message (written May 3, 1923; May 1923)
- Lovecraft's Greeting (written May 29, 1923; June 1923)
- President's Message (written June 9, 1923; July 1923)
- [Untitled Notes on Amateur Journalism] (July 1923)
- The President's Annual Report (written July 1, 1923; September 1923)
- Trends and Objects (March 1924)
- Editorial (May 1924)
- News Notes (May 1924)
- Editorial (July 1925)
- News Notes (July 1925)
- A Matter of Uniteds (Summer 1927)
- The Convention (July 1930)
- Bureau of Critics (written October 21, 1931; December 1931)
- Critics Submit First Report (December 1932)
- Verse Criticism (March 1933)
- Report of Bureau of Critics (June 1933)
- Bureau of Critics Comment on Verse, Typography, Prose (December 1933)
- Bureau of Critics (June 1934)
- Chairman of the Bureau of Critics Reports on Poetry (September 5, 1934)
- Mrs. Miniter — Estimates and Recollections (written October 16, 1934; spring 1938)
- Report of the Bureau of Critics (December 1934)
- Report of the Bureau of Critics (March 1935)
- Lovecraft Offers Verse Criticism (June 1935)
- Dr. Eugene B. Kuntz (September 1935)
- Some Current Amateur Verse (December 1935)
- Report of the Executive Judges (written April 25, 1936; June 1936)
- Some Current Motives and Practices (written June 4, 1936; end of June 1936)
- [Letter to the NAPA] (written June 22, 1936; October 1936)
- [Literary Review] (written October 23, 1936; winter 1936)
- Defining the "Ideal" Paper (written January 12, 1937; June 1940)
- [Untitled Note on Amateur Poetry] (probably written in the 1930s; unpublished)
- [On Notes High and Low by Carrie Adams Berry] (probably 1934)
- A Voice from the Grave (probably written in the mid-1930s; January 1941)
Literary criticism and theory
- Metrical Regularity (July 1915)
- The Allowable Rhyme (October 1915)
- The Proposed Authors' Union (October 1916)
- The Vers Libre Epidemic (January 1917)
- Poesy (July 1918)
- The Despised Pastoral (July 1918)
- The Literature of Rome (November 1918)
- The Simple Spelling Mania (December 1918)
- The Case for Classicism (June 1919)
- Literary Composition (January 1920)
- Editor's Note to “A Scene for Macbeth ” by Samuel Loveman (November 1920)
- Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess (March 1921)
- The Poetry of Lilian Middleton (written January 14, 1922; unpublished)
- Lord Dunsany and His Work (written December 14, 1922; 1944)
- Rudis Indigestaque Moles (March 1923)
- Introduction [to The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag ] (written before March 1923; 1923)
- Ars Gratia Artis (written spring or summer 1923; unpublished)
- In the Editor's Study (July 1923)
- [Random Notes] (July 1923)
- [Review of Ebony and Crystal by Clark Ashton Smith] (January 1924)
- The Professional Incubus (March 1924)
- The Omnipresent Philistine (May 1924)
- The Work of Frank Belknap Long, Jr. (May 1924)
- The Poetry of John Ravenor Bullen (September 1925)
- Supernatural Horror in Literature (written late 1925 – summer 1927; 1927)
- Preface [to White Fire by John Ravenor Bullen] (1927)
- Notes on “Alias Peter Marchall”, by AF Lorenz (written in the late 1920s or early 1930s; spring 1993)
- Foreword [to Thoughts and Pictures by Eugene B. Kuntz] (1932)
- Notes on Verse Technique (written April 18, 1932; 1932)
- Weird Story Plots (written 1932; unpublished)
- [Notes on Weird Fiction] (written 1932–1933; 1938)
- Notes on Writing Weird Fiction (written 1933; May – June 1937)
- Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction (written around July 1934; winter 1935)
- The Favorite Weird Stories of HP Lovecraft (October 1934)
- What Belongs in Verse (spring 1935)
- [Suggestions for a Reading Guide] (written autumn 1936; 1966)
- Supernatural Horror in Literature [for The Science-Fantasy Correspondent ] (written 1936; 1974)
Scientific contributions
- The Art of Fusion, Melting, Pudling & Casting (probably written in 1899)
- Chemistry (4 volumes exist; probably written 1899)
- A Good Anesthetic (probably written in 1899)
- The Scientific Gazette (32 issues; written March 4, 1899 to January 1909)
- The Railroad Review (written December 1901)
- My Opinion as to the Lunar Canals (probably written in 1903)
- The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy (69 issues; written August 2, 1903 through February 1909)
- Astronomy / The Monthly Almanack (9 issues; written August 1903 to February 1904)
- The Planet (August 29, 1903)
- The RI Journal of Science & Astronomy (written September 27, 1903)
- Annals of the Providence Observatory (written 1904)
- Providence Observatory: Forecast for Providence & Vicinity Next 24 h (written April 5, 1904)
- The Science Library (3 volumes exist; probably written in 1904)
- No Transit of Mars (written May 27, 1906; June 3, 1906)
- Trans-Neptunian Planets (written July 15, 1906; August 25, 1906)
- The Moon (written November 26, 1903 and revised July 24, 1906)
- Astronomy Articles for the Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner (July 27 to December 28, 1906)
- Astronomy Articles for the Providence Tribune (August 1, 1906 - June 1, 1908)
- The Earth Not Hollow (written August 6, 1906; August 12, 1906)
- Does “Vulcan” Exist? (probably written at the end of 1906; 1945)
- Third Annual Report of the Prov. Meteorological Station (written January 16, 1907)
- Celestial Objects for All (written July 28, 1907)
- Astronomical Notebook (written September 1, 1909 to 1915; October 1949)
- Venus and the Public Eye (written December 24, 1909; December 26, 1909)
- Astronomy Articles for the Providence Evening News (January 1, 1914 to May 2, 1918)
- Science versus Charlatanry (September 9, 1914)
- The Falsity of Astrology (written October 8, 1914; October 10, 1914)
- Astrology and the Future (October 13, 1914)
- Delavan's Comet and Astrology (written October 24, 1914; October 26, 1914)
- The Fall of Astrology (written December 15, 1914; December 17, 1914)
- [Isaac Bickerstaffe's Reply] (December 21, 1914)
- Mysteries of the Heavens Revealed by Astronomy (February 16 to May 17, 1915)
- Editor's Note to “The Irish and the Fairies” by Peter J. MacManus (February 1916)
- Brumalia (December 1916)
- The Truth About Mars (Fall 1917)
- The Cancer of Superstition (written after October 31, 1926; 1966)
- [Some Backgrounds of Fairyland] (written probably September 23, 1932; 1944)
Philosophical
- The Crime of the Century (April 1915)
- The Renaissance of Manhood (October 1915)
- Liquor and Its Friends (October 1915)
- More Chain Lightning (October 1915)
- Symphony and Stress (October 1915)
- Old England and the “Hyphen” (October 1916)
- Revolutionary Mythology (October 1916)
- The Symphonic Ideal (October 1916)
- “Editor's Note” to “The Genesis of the Revolutionary War” by Henry Clapham McGavack (July 1917)
- A Remarkable Document (July 1917)
- At the Root (July 1918)
- Time and Space (July 1918)
- Merlinus Redivivus (July 1918)
- Anglo-Saxondom (July 1918)
- Americanism (July 1919)
- The League (July 1919)
- Bolshevism (July 1919)
- Idealism and Materialism — A Reflection (July 1919)
- Life for Humanity's Sake (September 1920)
- [In Defense of Dagon] (written January, April and September 1921; 1985)
- Nietzscheism and Realism (October 1921)
- East and West Harvard Conservatism (1922?)
- The Materialist Today (May 1926)
- Some Causes of Self-Immolation (written December 13, 1931; 1944)
- Some Repetitions on the Times (written February 22, 1933; Spring 1986)
- A Layman Looks at the Government (written November 22, 1933; 2004)
- The Journal and the New Deal (written April 13, 1934; 2006)
- A Living Heritage: Roman Architecture in Today's America (written December 11, 1934; Summer 1935)
- Objections to Orthodox Communism (written June 19, 1936; 2006)
to travel
- The Trip of Theobald (written summer 1927; September 1927)
- Vermont — A First Impression (written September 29, 1927; March 1928)
- Observations on Several Parts of America (written summer 1928; 1944)
- A Descent to Avernus (written summer 1928; summer 1929)
- Sleepy Hollow To-day (written summer 1928; 1930)
- Travels in the Provinces of America (written after May 18, 1929; 1995)
- An Account of a Trip to the Antient Fairbanks House, in Dedham, and to the Red Horse Tavern in Sudbury, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (written summer 1929)
- Account of a Visit to Charleston, SC (written April 28 to May 9, 1930)
- An Account of Charleston , in His Maj ty’s Province of South Carolina (July 17, 1930; 1995)
- A Description of the Town of Quebeck in New-France, Lately added to His Britannick Majesty's Dominions (1930–1931; 1976)
- European Glimpses (written December 19, 1932; 1988)
- Some Dutch Footprints in New England (written July 1933; October 18, 1933)
- Homes and Shrines of Poe (written July 1934; winter 1934)
- The Unknown City in the Ocean (written September 1934; winter 1934)
- Charleston (written January 1936; 1936)
Autobiographical
- The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler (April 1919)
- A Confession of Unfaith (February 1922)
- [Diary: 1925] (written 1925–1926; 2006)
- [Commercial Blurbs] (written June – July 1925; Spring 1988)
- Cats and Dogs (November 23, 1926; Summer 1937)
- Notes on Hudson Valley History (written in late 1930; 2006)
- Autobiography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (written in the early 1930s; October 1941)
- In Memoriam: Henry St. Clair Whitehead (March 1933)
- Some Notes on a Nonentity (written November 23, 1933; 1943)
- Correspondence between RH Barlow and Wilson Shepherd of Oakman, Alabama-Sept-Nov. 1932 (written spring 1936; autumn 1986)
- In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard (September 1936)
- Commonplace Book (written early 1920-1935; 1938)
- Instructions in Case of Decease (written in late 1936 or early 1937; fall 1985)
- [Diary — 1937] (written January – March 1937; 1987)
literature
- HP Lovecraft: Collected Essays. Published by ST Joshi. 3 vols. Hippocampus Press, New York, NY.
- Volume 1: Amateur journalism. 2004, ISBN 0-9721644-1-3 , 440 pp.
- Volume 2: Literary criticism. 2004, ISBN 0-9721644-4-8 , 248 pp.
- Volume 3: Science. 2005, ISBN 0-9748789-8-7 , 357 pp.
- Volume 4: Travel. 2005, ISBN 0-9761592-0-1 , 300 pp.
- Volume 5: Philosophy; Autobiography and miscellany. 2006, ISBN 0-9761592-2-8 , 382 pp.
See also
Web links
- Lovecrafts Writings on hplovecraft.com (accessed July 15, 2018)