H P Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
American
- As Noted In: Notable Short Stories, True Tales and Mezzobulas, Phantom
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Lineage
- Father Winfield Scott Lovecraft
- Mother Sarah Susan Lovecraft
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1890/08/20 | I was born on the 20th of August, 1890, at No 454 (then No 194) Angell Street (razed 1961), in the city of Providence. This was the home of my mother's family. My parents' actual residence at the time being in Dorchester, MA. - HPL | Providence, RI | Rhode Island | H P Lovecraft's Birthday | |||
1896/00/00 | HPL and his mother spend two weeks at her uncle James Wheaton Phillips' farm on Johnson Road (Abraham Place - J Whipple Phillips House). They will visit again in 1908. | Visitor | Moosup Valley Historic District | Foster, RI | |||
1904/00/00 | In 1904 the death of my beloved maternal grandfather broke up the home at 454 Angell St, and caused my mother and myself to take our present smaller quarters at No 598 on the same thoroughfare. - HPL letter to Maurice Moe, 1 January 1915 | Home | HP Lovecraft House | Providence, RI | |||
1907/00/00 | H P Lovecraft gives an illustrated astronomical lecture in the vestry of the First Baptist Meetinghouse to the Boy's Club | Lecturer | First Baptist Meetinghouse | Providence, RI | |||
1908/05/00 | Prior to his high school graduation, H P Lovecraft suffers what he later described as a "nervous collapse" and "a sort of breakdown". Though he intended to attend Brown University after high school, he never graduated and never attended school again. | Health | |||||
1919/11/00 | H P Lovecraft's short story "Dagon" is published in The Vagrant. An amateur publication published and edited by W Paul Cook, The Vagrant operated from 1915 to 1927. | Author | Dagon (short story) | ||||
1920/00/00 | H P Lovecraft's aunt, Lillian Delora Phillips Clark, works as a live-in caregiver or housekeeper at 135 Benefit Street, 1919-1920. | Family | Stephen Harris House | Providence, RI | |||
1922/02/00 | Serialization of H P Lovecraft's novella "Herbert West-Reanimator" begins in the amateur publication Home Brew. | Author | Herbert West-Reanimator | ||||
1924/03/01 | H P Lovecraft's short story "The Rats in the Walls" is published. | Author | The Rats in the Walls | ||||
1924/03/03 | Sonia Haft Greene marries Howard Phillips Lovecraft at St Paul's Church, New York, NY. | Groom | St Paul's Chapel | New York City | Marriage of Sonia Greene and H P Lovecraft | ||
1924/05/00 | Harry Houdini and H P Lovecraft's short story "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is published in Weird Tales as "Entombed with the Pharaohs". | Author | Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (Short Story) | ||||
1925/09/01 | H P Lovecraft's short story "The Temple" is published in Weird Tales No 24. | Author | The Temple (Lovecraft story) | ||||
1926/04/17 | H P Lovecraft moves back to Providence and lives at 10 Barnes Street north of Brown University. | Life | College Hill Historic District | Providence, RI | |||
1926/10/20 | In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, HPL tells of his visit to Foster with his aunt Annie. HPL and Annie visit the house where his mother and his maternal grandmother were born. The topography of Foster RI is similar to the features in "The Silver Key". | Visitor | The Silver Key | Foster, RI | Rhode Island | ||
1927/03/00 | Lovecraft completes the "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". | Author | The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | ||||
1928/02/01 | H P Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu" is published. | Author | The Call of Cthulhu | ||||
1928/08/04 | The story "takes place amongst the wild domed hills of the upper Miskatonic Valley, far northwest of Arkham, and is based on several old New England legends - one of which I heard only last month during my sojourn in Wilbraham." HPL letter to A Derleth | Author | The Dunwich Horror | Wilbraham | Massachusetts | ||
1930/02/24 | Lovecraft begins writing "The Whisperer in Darkness". | Author | The Whisperer in Darkness | ||||
1931/03/22 | From 24 February to 22 Mar 1931, H P Lovecraft writes the novella "At the Mountains of Madness". | Author | At The Mountains of Madness (book) | ||||
1931/05/00 | Lovecraft visits Whitehead, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, 639 Edgewater Dr, Dunedin. Lovecraft may have helped Whitehead with Bothon, or as some believe, it was written by August Derleth based on a synopsis found among Whitehead's papers. | Author | Bothon | Dunedin | Florida | ||
1931/08/01 | "The Whisperer in Darkness" by H P Lovecraft is published in Weird Tales. | Author | The Whisperer in Darkness | ||||
1931/11/06 | If I had any promontory specifically in mind when writing that tale, it was the headland near Gloucester called 'Mother Ann' - though that has no such relation to the city as my mysterious cliff has to Kingsport. - HPL letter to August Derleth | Author | The Strange High House in the Mist (short story) | Eastern Point Light Station | Gloucester, MA | ||
1933/05/00 | H P Lovecraft moves into 66 College Street, Providence, Rhode Island. | Life | HP Lovecraft Last Residence | Providence, RI | |||
1933/07/26 | The Sargent etc house must have given you an excellent idea of a typical middle-period colonial interior.... (H P Lovecraft Letter to Miss Helen V Sully) | Life | Sargent House Museum | Gloucester, MA | |||
1933/11/00 | H P Lovecraft writes an autobiographical essay, "Some Notes on a Nonentity", for William Crawford, publisher of 'Marvel Tales'. It will not appear in the magazine but included later in the 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep' omnibus from Arkham House. | Author | HP Lovecraft Last Residence | Providence, RI | |||
1934/05/07 | R H Barlow admirably types up a neat copy of the first 201 entries in H P Lovecraft's notebook, "Commonplace Book". | Author | Commonplace Book (Lovecraft) | ||||
1936/02/00 | "At The Mountains of Madness" is syndicated in the February, March and April issues of Astounding Stories. | Author | At The Mountains of Madness (book) | ||||
1936/04/01 | H P Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is published. | Author | The Shadow Over Innsmouth | ||||
1936/06/01 | H P Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Out of Time" is published. | Author | The Shadow Out of Time | ||||
1937/03/10 | Terminal ill with cancer of the small intestine, H P Lovecraft Lovecraft is admitted to the Jane Brown Memorial Hospital in Providence, Rhode island. | Health | HP Lovecraft Last Residence | Providence, RI | |||
1937/03/15 | Howard Phillips Lovecraft dies of cancer of the small intestine. He is interned at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence. | Died | Swan Point Cemetery | Providence, RI | |||
1940/11/01 | Zealia Bishop and H P Lovecraft's novella "The Mound" is published. | Author | The Mound | ||||
1941/05/00 | H P Lovecraft's novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is serialized in Weird Tales magazine, May and July 1941. | Author | The Case of Charles Dexter Ward |
105 Creative Works by H P Lovecraft »
Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
Four O'Clock | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/05 | |
The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/16 | |
The Slaying of the Monster | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/16 | |
The Sorcery of Aphlar | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/17 | |
The Book | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/21 | |
The Descendant | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/21 | |
History of the Necronomicon | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/21 | |
Sweet Ermengarde | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/26 | |
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | Author | Novel | 1905/04/26 | |
The Transition of Juan Romero | Author | Short Story | 1905/04/27 | |
Satan's Servants | Author | Short Story | 1905/05/02 | |
Old Bugs | Author | Short Story | 1905/05/12 | |
The Alchemist | Author | Short Story | 1916/11/00 | |
A Reminiscence of Dr Samuel Johnson | Author | Short Story | 1917/09/01 | |
The Beast in the Cave | Author | Short Story | 1918/06/00 | |
Beyond the Wall of Sleep | Author | Short Story | 1919/10/01 | |
Dagon (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1919/11/00 |
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The White Ship | Author | Short Story | 1919/11/01 | |
The Statement of Randolph Carter | Author | Short Story | 1920/05/01 | |
The Doom that Came to Sarnath | Author | Short Story | 1920/06/01 | |
Poetry and the Gods | Author | Short Story | 1920/09/01 | |
The Cats of Ulthar | Author | Short Story | 1920/11/01 | |
Nyarlathotep | Author | Short Story | 1920/11/01 | |
Polaris (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/12/01 | |
The Street | Author | Short Story | 1920/12/01 | |
The Picture in the House | Author | Short Story | 1921/00/00 | |
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family | Author | Short Story | 1921/03/00 | |
Ex Oblivione | Author | Short Story | 1921/03/01 | |
The Crawling Chaos | Author | Short Story | 1921/04/01 | |
The Terrible Old Man (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1921/07/00 | |
The Tree | Author | Short Story | 1921/10/01 | |
The Nameless City | Author | Short Story | 1921/11/01 | |
Herbert West-Reanimator | Author | Novel | 1922/02/00 | |
The Tomb | Author | Short Story | 1922/03/01 | |
The Music of Erich Zann | Author | Short Story | 1922/03/01 | |
Celephais | Author | Short Story | 1922/05/01 | |
The Lurking Fear | Author | Short Story | 1923/01/00 | |
Memory | Author | Short Story | 1923/05/01 | |
What the Moon Brings | Author | Short Story | 1923/05/01 | |
Hypnos | Author | Short Story | 1923/05/01 | |
The Horror at Martin's Beach | Author | Short Story | 1923/11/01 | |
The Hound | Author | Short Story | 1924/02/01 | |
The Rats in the Walls | Author | Short Story | 1924/03/01 | |
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/05/00 | |
The Shunned House (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/10/19 | |
The Festival | Author | Short Story | 1925/01/01 | |
The Unnamable | Author | Short Story | 1925/07/01 | |
The Temple (Lovecraft story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/09/01 |
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In the Vault | Author | Short Story | 1925/11/01 | |
Hallowe'en in a Suburb | Author | Poem | 1926/03/00 | |
The Outsider | Author | Short Story | 1926/04/01 | |
The Moon-Bog | Author | Short Story | 1926/06/01 | |
He | Author | Short Story | 1926/09/01 | |
Pickman's Model (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/09/01 | |
The Green Meadow | Author | Short Story | 1927/00/00 | |
The Horror at Red Hook | Author | Short Story | 1927/01/01 | |
Two Black Bottles | Author | Short Story | 1927/08/01 | |
The Colour Out of Space | Author | Short Story | 1927/09/01 | |
The Call of Cthulhu | Author | Short Story | 1928/02/01 |
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Cool Air | Author | Short Story | 1928/03/00 | |
The Last Test | Author | Short Story | 1928/11/01 | |
The Silver Key | Author | Short Story | 1929/01/01 | |
The Dunwich Horror | Author | Short Story | 1929/04/01 |
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The Curse of Yig | Author | Short Story | 1929/11/01 | |
The Electric Executioner | Author | Short Story | 1930/08/01 | |
The Whisperer in Darkness | Author | Mezzobula | 1931/08/01 | |
The Strange High House in the Mist (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/10/01 | |
The Trap (story story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/03/01 | |
The Man of Stone | Author | Short Story | 1932/10/01 | |
The Dreams in the Witch House | Author | Short Story | 1933/07/01 | |
The Horror in the Museum | Author | Short Story | 1933/07/01 | |
The Other Gods | Author | Short Story | 1933/11/01 | |
Winged Death | Author | Short Story | 1934/03/01 | |
Commonplace Book (Lovecraft) | Author | Notes | 1934/05/07 | |
The Battle that Ended the Century | Author | Short Story | 1934/06/01 | |
From Beyond | Author | Short Story | 1934/06/01 | |
Through the Gates of the Silver Key | Author | Short Story | 1934/07/01 | |
Till A'the Seas | Author | Short Story | 1935/00/00 | |
Out of the Aeons | Author | Short Story | 1935/04/01 | |
The Quest of Iranon | Author | Short Story | 1935/07/07 | |
The Challenge from Beyond | Author | Short Story | 1935/09/01 | |
At The Mountains of Madness (book) | Author | Book | 1936/02/00 |
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth | Author | Novel | 1936/04/01 | |
The Shadow Out of Time | Author | Novel | 1936/06/01 | |
The Haunter of the Dark | Author | Short Story | 1936/12/01 | |
The Disinterment | Author | Short Story | 1937/01/01 | |
The Thing on the Doorstep | Author | Short Story | 1937/01/01 |
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The Horror in the Burying-Ground | Author | Short Story | 1937/05/01 | |
Collapsing Cosmoses (Lovecraft) | Author | Written Fragment | 1938/00/00 | |
Ibid | Author | Short Story | 1938/01/01 | |
The Diary of Alonzo Typer | Author | Short Story | 1938/02/01 | |
Azathoth (story fragment) | Author | Written Fragment | 1938/06/01 | |
The Night Ocean | Author | Short Story | 1939/00/00 | |
Medusa's Coil | Author | Short Story | 1939/01/01 | |
The Evil Clergyman | Author | Short Story | 1939/04/01 | |
In the Walls of Eryx | Author | Short Story | 1939/10/01 | |
The Very Old Folk | Author | Short Story | 1940/06/00 | |
The Tree on the Hill | Author | Short Story | 1940/09/01 | |
The Mound | Author | Novel | 1940/11/01 | |
The Thing in the Moonlight | Author | Short Story | 1941/01/00 | |
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | Author | Novel | 1941/05/00 | |
The Little Glass Bottle | Author | Short Story | 1959/00/00 | |
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard | Author | Short Story | 1959/00/00 | |
The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure | Author | Short Story | 1959/00/00 | |
The Mysterious Ship | Author | Short Story | 1959/00/00 |
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