This page lists different books that analyze or review Lovecraft’s works including mostly
in-print volumes but also some of the more important out-of-print books.
- Adventurous Liberation: H.P. Lovecraft in Florida
- By David Goudsward. Sunrise, FL: Bold Venture Press; December 2025.
- After Engulfment: Cosmicism and Neocosmicism in H. P. Lovecraft,
Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Frank Herbert
- By Ellen J. Greenham. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2022.
- The Age of Lovecraft
- Edited by Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Minneapolis, MN: University of
Minnesota Press; 2016.
- Black Forbidden Things: Cryptical Secrets from the “Crypt of
Cthulhu”
- Edited by Robert M. Price. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House; 1992.
- Books at Brown, Volumes XXXVIII–XXXIX
- Edited by John H. Stanley. Providence, RI: The Friends of the Library of Brown University;
1995.
- A Century Less a Dream: Selected Criticism on H.P.
Lovecraft
- Edited by Scott Connors. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press; April 2002.
- Classics & Contemporaries: Some Notes on Horror
Fiction
- By S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2009.
- The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop
Culture
- By Jason Colavito. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books; 2005.
- Dissecting Cthulhu: Essays on the Cthulhu Mythos
- Edited by S.T. Joshi. Lakeland, Florida: Miskatonic River Press; 2011.
- The Dream Quest of H.P. Lovecraft
- By Darrell Schweitzer. San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press; 1978.
- An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in
Honor of H.P. Lovecraft
- Edited by David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press; 1991.
- Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark
- Edited by Ben J.S. Szumskyj and S.T. Joshi. Holicong, NJ: Wildside Press; 2003.
- H.P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography
- By S.T. Joshi. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press; 1981.
- H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos
- By Robert M. Price. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House; 1990.
- An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia
- By S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press; 2001. New York, NY:
Hippocampus Press; 2004.
- H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture: The Works and Their Adaptations
in Film, Television, Comics, Music and Games
- By Don G. Smith. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; 2006.
- H.P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley
- By David Goudsward. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2013.
- H.P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study
- By Donald R. Burleson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press; 1983.
- H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
- By Michel Houellebecq. San Franscisco, CA: Believer Books; 2005.
- H.P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality
- By Steven J. Mariconda. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2013.
- H.P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism
- Edited by S.T. Joshi. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press; 1980.
- H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West
- By S.T. Joshi. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Wildside Press; December 1990.
- H.P. Lovecraft’s Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and
Contradiction
- By Gavin Callaghan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.; 2013.
- The Horror of It All: Encrusted Gems from “The Crypt of
Cthulhu”
- Edted by Robert M. Price. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House; 1990.
- An Index to the Fiction & Poetry of H.P.
Lovecraft
- By S.T. Joshi. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press; 1992.
- An Index to the Selected Letters of H.P. Lovecraft
- By S.T. Joshi. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press; 1991.
- L’Affaire Barlow: H. P. Lovecraft and the Battle for His
Literary Legacy
- By Marcos Legaria. North Haven, CT: Bold Venture Press; November 2023.
- Lovecraft and a World in Transition: Collected Essays on H.P.
Lovecraft
- Edited by S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2014.
- Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and
Successors
- Edited by Robert H. Waugh. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press; 2013.
- Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic
- By Maurice Levy, translated by S.T. Joshi. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press;
1988.
- Lovecraft: An American Allegory
- By Donald R. Burleson. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2015.
- Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe
- By Donald R. Burleson. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky; 1990.
- The Lovecraft Lexicon: A Reader’s Guide to Persons, Places and
Things in the Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
- By Anthony B. Pearsall. Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications; 2005.
- Lovecraft: The Great Tales
- By John D. Haefele. USA: The Cimmerian Press; 2021.
- Lovecraft’s Library: A Catalogue
- By S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2024.
- Lovecraft’s New York Circle: The Kalem Club:
1924–1927
- Edited by Mara Kirk Hart and S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2006.
- Lovecraftian People and Places
- Edited by Ken Faig, Jr.. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2022.
- The Lovecraftian Poe
- Edited by Sean Moreland. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press; 2024.
- Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 1
- Edited by John Michael Sefel and Niels-Viggo S. Hobbs. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press;
2015.
- Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 2
- Edited by Dennis P. Quinn. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2017.
- Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 3
- Edited by Dennis P. Quinn. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2019.
- Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 4
- Edited by Dennis P. Quinn and Elena Tchougounova-Paulson. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press;
2022.
- Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 5
- Edited by Elena Tchougounova-Paulson. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2024.
- Lovecraftian Voyages
- By Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2017.
- The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft: Comic, Film, Podcast, TV,
Games
- Edited by Tim Lanzendörfer and Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho. Cham,
Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan; 2023.
- A Monster for Many: Talking with H.P. Lovecraft
- By Robert H. Waugh. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2021.
- The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H.P. Lovecraft
- By Robert H. Waugh. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2006 & 2021.
- A Monster of Voices: Speaking for H.P. Lovecraft
- By Robert H. Waugh. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2011 & 2021.
- More Lovecraftian People and Places
- By Ken Faig, Jr. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2024.
- Mosig at Last: A Psychologist Looks at H.P. Lovecraft
- By Yōzan Dirk W. Mosig. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press; August 2007.
- New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft
- Edited by David Simmons. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan; 2013.
- Night-Black Deeds: An Enriched Edition of H. P.
Lovecraft’s “The Shunned House”
- Edited by N. R. Jenzen-Jones, Sean Branney, and Andrew Leman. London, UK: Helios House Press; 2024.
- Off the Ancient Track: A Lovecraftian Guide to New England & Adjacent
New York
- By Jason C. Eckhardt. Self-published; 2013.
- Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the
Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
- By James Arthur Anderson. Rockville, MD: Borgo Press; 2011.
- Primal Sources: Essays on H.P. Lovecraft
- By S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2003.
- The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft: His Rise from Obscurity to World
Renown
- By S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2021.
- The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
- By Barton Levi St. Armand. Elizabethtown, NY: Dragon Press; 1977.
- Selected Papers on Lovecraft
- By S.T. Joshi. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press; 1989.
- Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos
- By Bobby Derie. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2014.
- The Shunned House: Whipple Edition
- Edited by N. R. Jenzen-Jones, Sean Branney, and Andrew Leman. London, UK: Helios House Press; 2024.
- A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H.P.
Lovecraft
- By S.T. Joshi. Gillette, NJ: Wildside Press; December 1996.
- “Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft” and Other
Essays
- By Peter Cannon. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press; July 1990.
- Tour de Lovecraft: The Destinations
- By Kenneth Hite. Alexandria, VA: Atomic Overmind Press; April 2021.
- Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales
- By Kenneth Hite. Alexandria, VA: Atomic Overmind Press; August 2008.
- The Unknown Lovecraft
- By Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2009.
- Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
- By Graham Harman. Winchester, UK and Washington, USA: Zero Books; 2012.
- The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M.R. James/Ambrose
Bierce/H.P. Lovecraft
- By S.T. Joshi. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press; 1990.
- A Weird Writer in Our Midst: Early Criticism of H.P.
Lovecraft
- Edited by S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2010.
- When the Stars Are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and
Astronomy
- By Edward Guimont and Horace A. Smith. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2023.
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