The H.P. Lovecraft Archive is a very large site, with hundreds of individual pages. This page
will keep you up-to-date on recent changes to the site.
| 25 May 2010: |
Created a page for Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft (Sporting Gentlemen Publishers). |
| 28 April 2010: |
Created a page for The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft, a two-volume facsimile edition of Lovecraft’s writings as they originally appeared in Weird Tales. |
| 6 April 2010: |
Added a page for Independent Lovecraft Films, which includes Andrew Leman and Sean Branney’s excellent The Call of Cthulhu. |
| 15 February 2010: |
Created new pages for Documentaries (including Frank H. Woodward’s Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown) and Radio Broadcasts. Also moved Lovecraftian Plays and Lovecraft Dramatizations to the “Popular Culture” section. |
| 27 January 2010: |
Created a page for S. T. Joshi’s H. P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography (University of Tampa Press), a massive update of his 1981 H.P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography. |
| 7 January 2010: |
Added the January 2011 MythosCon to the both the Lovecraft Events (His Study) and Lovecraftian Events (Popular Culture) pages of the site. Also added the H. P. Lovecraft issues of Dark Discoveries and Rue Morgue to the Periodicals page. |
| 2 November 2009: |
Updated the page for The Lovecraft Forum, which takes place on November 5 this year. For more details, see this announcement. |
| 20 October 2009: |
The electronic texts of 48 poems, seven essays, four stories, and two letters have now been added to The H. P. Lovecraft Archive, making it the most complete and accurate online repository of Lovecraft’s writings. You may either click through the appropriate categories in the His Writings section, or jump right to the Electronic Texts page to see them all. |
| 18 October 2009: |
Created a page for At the Mountains of Madness and Other Weird Tales with an introduction by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Barnes & Noble). |
| 5 October 2009: |
Created a page for A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, edited by S.T. Joshi, David E. Schultz, and Rusty Burke, from Hippocampus Press. |
| 20 August 2009: |
Happy Birthday to H. P. Lovecraft! Nearly all of Lovecraft’s tales can now be read on The H. P. Lovecraft Archive! Just go to the Lovecraft’s Fiction section of the site and click through to the story of your choice to read it online. We’ll also be adding some poems, essays, and letters in the future! |
| 4 June 2009: |
Created pages for The Unknown Lovecraft by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. and Classics & Contemporaries: Some Notes on Horror Fiction by S. T. Joshi, both published by Hippocampus Press. |
| 27 May 2009: |
Created a page for The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales with an introduction by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Barnes & Noble). |
| 22 January 2009: |
Made considerable updates and revisions to the Lovecraft Readings and Dramatizations page – and then split it into two pages: Lovecraft Readings and Lovecraft Dramatizations. |
| 26 October 2008: |
Changed the typography of the entire site and added a wallpaper to the white space on the edges of the pages. If you have any difficulties viewing the new site, please Contact Us. |
| 21 October 2008: |
Created pages for H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction with an introduction by S.T. Joshi (Barnes & Noble) and Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales by Kenneth Hite (Atomic Overmind Press). |
| 19 August 2008: |
Created a page for Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, edited by S.T. Joshi & David E. Schultz, from Hippocampus Press; and added a reference to Lovecraft Annual on the Periodicals page. |
| 22 June 2008: |
Created pages for O Fortunate Floridian: H.P. Lovecraft’s Letters to R.H. Barlow, edited by S.T. Joshi & David E. Schultz, from University of Tampa Press; Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark, edited by Ben J.S. Szumskyj and S.T. Joshi, from Wildside Press; and Mosig at Last: A Psychologist Looks at H.P. Lovecraft, by Yōzan Dirk W. Mosig, from Necronomicon Press. |
| 4 December 2007: |
Added a page for Lovecraft Studies including a searchable index of all issues. Also updated the list of online Articles, including a link to a PDF of Donovan K. Loucks’ “Antique Dreams: Marblehead and Lovecraft’s Kingsport”. |
| 14 May 2007: |
Created a page for Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy; Autobiography & Miscellany, edited by S.T. Joshi, from Hippocampus Press, and updated the Lovecraft’s Philosophy and Lovecraft’s Autobiographical Works pages accordingly. |
| 15 March 2007: |
Pulp Uncovered, a festival celebrating the pulp fiction magazines of the early 1900s, begins in Providence, Rhode Island, on the 70th anniversary of Lovecraft’s death. |
| 23 September 2006: |
Created a page for Lovecraft’s New York Circle: The Kalem Club, 1924–1927 edited by Mara Kirk Hart and S.T. Joshi (Hippocampus Press). |
| 28 June 2006: |
Created a page for The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H.P. Lovecraft by Robert H. Waugh (Hippocampus Press). |
| 29 May 2006: |
Added an entry for Fantasy Flight Games’ “Arkham Horror” to the Lovecraftian Board and Card Games page and for “Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth”, “Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem”, and “Lovecraft Country” to the Lovecraftian Computer and Platform Games page. |
| 30 April 2006: |
Created pages for Collected Essays, Volume 3: Science and Collected Essays, Volume 4: Travel, edited by S.T. Joshi, both from Hippocampus Press, and updated the Lovecraft’s Scientific Articles and Lovecraft’s Travelogues pages accordingly. |
| 26 March 2006: |
Created pages for H.P. Lovecraft: Master of Weird Fiction (by William Schoell), The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture (by Jason Colavito), H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture: The Works and Their Adaptations in Film, Television, Comics, Music and Games (by Don G. Smith), and Shadows of Death (by H.P. Lovecraft, with an introduction by Harlan Ellison). |
| 6 August 2005: |
Created a page for H.P. Lovecraft: Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner (edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz) from Hippocampus Press. |
| 24 June 2005: |
Created a page for The Lovecraft Lexicon: A Reader’s Guide to Persons, Places and Things in the Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, by Anthony B. Pearsall. |
| 19 June 2005: |
Created a page for At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition, with an introduction by China Miéville. |
| 5 June 2005: |
Created a page for H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, by Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Dorna Khazeni, with an introduction by Stephen King. |
| 15 May 2005: |
Created a page for Lovecraft Letters Volume 2: Letters from New York, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. |
| 7 February 2005: |
Created a page for H.P. Lovecraft: Tales (edited and with notes by Peter Straub) from The Library of America. |
| 6 November 2004: |
Updated the page for S.T. Joshi’s H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, including the third printing’s new cover art and back cover text. |
| 12 September 2004: |
Created a page for The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories (edited by S.T. Joshi) from Penguin Books. |
| 22 August 2004: |
Created pages for Collected Essays, Volume 1: Amateur Journalism and Collected Essays, Volume 2: Literary Criticism, edited by S.T. Joshi, both from Hippocampus Press, and updated the Lovecraft’s Amateur Journalism and Lovecraft’s Literary Criticism pages accordingly. Also added bibliographic information on Hippocampus Press’ paperback edition of An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. |
| 7 March 2004: |
Created a page for Primal Sources: Essays on H.P. Lovecraft, by S.T. Joshi. |
| 18 October 2003: |
Added pages for H.P. Lovecraft: Letters to Alfred Galpin (edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz) and Eyes of the God: The Weird Fiction and Poetry of R.H. Barlow (edited by S.T. Joshi, Douglas A. Anderson, and David E. Schultz), both from Hippocampus Press. Also updated the format of the page for Night Shade Books’ The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft (edited by S.T. Joshi). |
| 16 October 2003: |
Dr. Robert Waugh’s Lovecraft Forum took place at the State University of New York at New Paltz. |
| 5 October 2003: |
Added a Lovecraft Events page to the “His Study” section. |
| 20 September 2003: |
Added pages for the following eight books: H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (by S.T. Joshi), A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft (by S.T. Joshi; third edition), The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (by H.P. Lovecraft; 2002 Carroll & Graf edition), A Century Less a Dream: Selected Criticism on H.P. Lovecraft (edited by Scott Connors), Lovecraft at Last (by H.P. Lovecraft and Willis Conover, with a new introduction by S.T. Joshi; Cooper Square Press edition), Lovecraft’s Library: A Catalogue (by S.T. Joshi), Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror (by H.P. Lovecraft), and From the Pest Zone: The New York Stories (by H.P. Lovecraft, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz). |
| 10 September 2003: |
S.T. Joshi delivered a lecture at Brown University’s John Hay Library titled Lovecraft’s Letters: A Literary Treasure Trove. Preceding this lecture, Mr. Joshi and Donovan K. Loucks (webmaster of The H.P. Lovecraft Archive), led a walking tour of Lovecraft’s College Hill. |
| 15 March 2003: |
Created a page for Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. |
| 14 March 2003: |
Added several pages providing information about past NecronomiCon conventions. |
| 13 January 2003: |
Finally added “Dagon” to the Lovecraft Movies page. |
| 20 October 2002: |
Made significant additions and revisions to the Poetry page based on S.T. Joshi’s “A Chronology of Lovecraft’s Poetry” and added 43 links to William Johns’ The H.P. Lovecraft Library. |
| 19 October 2002: |
Updated the Algernon Blackwood link on the Favorite Authors page. |
| 19 October 2002: |
Added 6 links to William Johns’ The H.P. Lovecraft Library from the Literary Criticism, Philosophy, and Autobiographical Works pages. |
| 19 September 2002: |
Created the What’s New page. |
| 19 September 2002: |
Updated the “The Thing in the Moonlight” page to compare the differences between this story and the letter on which it was based. |
| 30 June 2002: |
Updated the link to Brett Rutherford’s “Night Gaunts” on the Lovecraftian Plays page. |
| 20 June 2002: |
Created a petition to Remove H.P. Lovecraft’s Name from August Derleth’s Books. |
| 18 February 2002: |
Updated the Search Engines page to make searching multiple sites easier. |
| 7 February 2002: |
Linked to Jeff Kane’s “Old Burial Hill, Marblehead” page from the Guide to Lovecraftian Sites in Massachusetts page. |
| 23 December 2001: |
Created a page for The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. |
| 19 December 2001: |
Added entries for “Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare”, “Arcane”, and “Necronomicon: The Gateway to Beyond” on the Lovecraftian Computer and Platform Games page. |
| 19 December 2001: |
Added links to Delta Green on the Lovecraftian Role-Playing Games page. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Linked to R.D. Mullen’s review of L. Sprague de Camp’s H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe, by Donald R. Burleson. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for An Index to the Selected Letters of H.P. Lovecraft, by S.T. Joshi. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for The Shadow Out of Time: The Corrected Text. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for H.P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study, by Donald R. Burleson. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for The Shadow over Innsmouth, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for A Dreamer and a Visionary: H.P. Lovecraft in His Time, by S.T. Joshi. |
| 2 November 2001: |
Created a page for The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature, edited and with introduction and commentary by S.T. Joshi. |
| 30 October 2001: |
Created a page for The Gentleman from Angell Street: Memories of H.P. Lovecraft. |
| 30 October 2001: |
Created a page for An Index to the Fiction and Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft, by S.T. Joshi. |
| 2 October 2001: |
Linked to several online biographies on the A Brief Biography page. |
| 18 November 2000: |
Created a page for The Dream Quest of H.P. Lovecraft, by Darrell Schweitzer. |
| 18 November 2000: |
Created a page for Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters, by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. |
