Howard Phillips Lovecraft wrote about a universe that does not care whether we survive it. Here you will find 43 free H. P. Lovecraft books in PDF, ready to read and download.
He was born in Providence in 1890 and died poor in 1937, known mostly to readers of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Today the Cthulhu Mythos he built runs through film, games and fiction worldwide.
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Cthulhu Mythos
H. P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos Books
These are the H. P. Lovecraft books that built the shared universe: ancient gods, forbidden texts, and the New England towns unlucky enough to sit near them. They run in composition order, so you can watch him work out the rules of his own cosmos.
Every solo story Lovecraft wrote as an adult, from The Tomb in 1917 to The Haunter of the Dark, gathered in one volume with a full table of contents. The single file to grab if you want the whole body of work instead of story by story.
The story that named the Mythos, told through a dead scholar's papers, a police raid in the bayou and a sailor's log. Start here if you are new to Lovecraft.
A backwater New England village, a family that keeps strange company, and a thing growing behind boarded windows. One of the clearest entry points into the Mythos and its forbidden books.
A meteorite falls on a Massachusetts farm and something inside it begins to drain the land and the family living on it. Lovecraft considered this his best story, and it reads more like science fiction than horror.
An Antarctic expedition uncovers a buried city older than any human civilization and the record of what built it. The novella that set out the deep history behind the whole Mythos.
A traveller stops in a decaying fishing port and finds the townspeople bound to something in the water offshore. Includes one of the most famous chase sequences in horror fiction.
A folklorist exchanges letters with a Vermont farmer about creatures seen in the flooded hills, and the letters slowly stop sounding like the same man. Cosmic horror handled as correspondence and evidence.
A professor loses five years of his life and recovers memories that belong to something else entirely. Lovecraft's most ambitious treatment of deep time and mind exchange.
A mathematics student rents an attic room with impossible angles and starts travelling in his sleep. Geometry and witchcraft pulled into the same story.
A man explains why he shot his closest friend, and why the body that came to his door was not the person he knew. A tight, fast late tale about identity and possession.
A young man researches a colonial ancestor with an unsavoury reputation and gradually stops being himself. Lovecraft's longest novel and his fullest use of Providence as a setting.
A ruined city in the Arabian desert, built for creatures that were never human. The tale that first printed the couplet about that which can eternal lie.
A shipwrecked sailor is stranded on a stretch of risen seabed and sees something climb out of the water. Short, early, and the first sketch of the sunken gods that run through the later work.
A prose poem about a travelling showman whose demonstrations leave whole cities unhinged. Three pages that introduce one of the central figures of the Mythos.
An unfinished fragment naming the blind idiot god at the centre of Lovecraft's cosmos. A short piece worth reading for how much of the later mythology is already in place.
A man returns to his ancestors' town for a midwinter rite and finds the celebration older and stranger than he expected. The first story to name the Necronomicon.
Before the Mythos took over, Lovecraft wrote about a world you can only reach in sleep. These tales are stranger and more lyrical than his horror, and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is the long heart of them.
Randolph Carter crosses the whole geography of the Dreamlands to find a sunset city he has only seen while asleep. The novel-length heart of the Dream Cycle.
A man tells police what happened to the friend who climbed down into a tomb with a field telephone. Short, and the first appearance of Lovecraft's recurring dreamer.
A priest climbs a forbidden mountain to look on the gods of earth and finds their protectors waiting. Brief, and central to the mythology of the Dreamlands.
A thousand years after the men of Sarnath destroy a neighbouring city, the debt comes due. Written in a deliberately archaic register that shows the Dunsany influence clearly.
Here is everything outside the two great cycles: the apprentice tales, the gothic New England pieces, and the ones that fit nowhere else. Several of these Lovecraft stories are the most widely anthologized he ever wrote.
Six linked episodes following a medical student who refuses to accept that death is final. Written as a serial, and the closest Lovecraft came to outright body horror.
A Boston painter shows a friend the canvases he keeps in a cellar studio, and explains where he works from life. A short tale with one of the best closing lines in the genre.
A tenant befriends the doctor upstairs who keeps his rooms refrigerated at all times. Quiet, contained, and one of Lovecraft's most effective short pieces.
An inventor builds a machine that lets the eye see what shares the room with us all along. An early tale that reads as science fiction as much as horror.
A man restores his family's ancestral priory in England and follows a sound in the masonry down to what the family did there. Widely considered his finest gothic story.
A sleepless walker meets a stranger in old Greenwich Village who offers to show him the city as it was and as it will be. A short piece written the same year as Red Hook.
A young man becomes fixated on a sealed family vault in the woods and begins spending his nights there. The story Lovecraft counted as the start of his adult work.
A curse laid on a noble family six centuries earlier kills every heir at the same age. An early piece that already shows his interest in inherited doom.
Miners open a shaft that drops further than any of them expected, and one of them answers something calling from below. A short early tale set in the American West.
An asylum intern rigs a device to share the dreams of an inmate who speaks of a life among the stars. One of the earliest statements of his cosmic outlook.
A dream of Roman Spain, written up in a letter to a friend, in which a cohort marches into the hills after the local people and does not come back. Unusual for being set entirely in antiquity.
August Derleth and Robert Bloch carried his ideas forward, and modern horror still borrows his monsters. For more of the genre, browse our horror books collection.
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