H. P. Lovecraft
August 27, 1932
The following list of titles are the books H. P. Lovecraft listed as being the titles he owned on the weird in his August 27, 1932 letter to Clark Ashton Smith, a letter now held in the Northern Illinois University Library. The headings and listings follow those of the original. An earlier transcription was published by D. Franklin Coffman, Jr. in 2000, with several errors. A complete bibliography of all books owned by Lovecraft appeared in S. T. Joshi’s Lovecraft’s Library (3rd. ed., 2002).
Weird &c. Items in the Library of H. P. Lovecraft
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Andreyev, Leonid
Red Laugh Seven Who Were Hanged Arlen, Michael Ghost Stories Astor, John Jacob Journey to Other Worlds Austin, F. Britten On the Borderland Beckford, William Vathek Episodes of Vathek Benson, E. F. Visible & Invisible The Man Who Went too Far Beraud, Henri Lazarus Bierce, Ambrose In the Midst of Life Can Such Things Be? Birch, A. G. The Moon Terror Blackwood, Algernon John Silence Jimbo Bligh-Bond, Mary Avernus Buchan, John The Runagates Club Bulwer-Lytton, E. Zamoru Strange Story House + Brain Busson, Paul The Man Who Was Born Again Chambers, Robert W. The King in Yellow In Search of the Unknown Clive, Leonard The Dark Chamber Cowan, Frank Reir's Love d’Aurevilley, Barbey Story Without a Name de la Mare, Walter The Riddle &c. De Mille, James The Connoisseur etc. Ms. Found in a Copper Cylinder, Doyle, A. Conan Tales of the Terrible + the Unseen Dunsany, Lord Gods of Pegana Time + the Gods Dreamers’ Tales Sword of Welleran Book of Wonder Last Book of Wonder Tales of Three Hemispheres Fifty-one Tales Chronicles of Rodriquez King of Elfland’s Daughter Five Plays Plays of Gods + Men Plays of Near + Far Forbes, Esther A Mirror for Witches Fouque, LeMotte Undine Sintram Gautier, Theophile Morte Amoureuse Avatar Haggard, H. Rider She Hawthorne, Nathaniel Seven Gables short stories Hearn, Lafcadio Kwaida Hugo, Victor Hans of Iceland Jackson, Charles L. Gold Point etc. James, Henry The Turn of the Screw James, M. R. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary More Ghost Stories A Thin Ghost + Others Warning to the Curious |
King, Basil
The Spreading Dawn Kipling, Rudyard Phantom Rickshaw Mark of the Beast + then short stories LeFanu, J. Sheridan House by the Churchyard Level, Maurice Tales of Mystery + Horror Those Who Return London, Jack The Star Rover MacDonald, George Lilith Machen, Arthur House of Souls Hill of Dreams Three Impostors Shining Pyramid The Terror (in Century Mag.) McKenna, Stephen The Oldest God Marryat, Capt. The Phantom Ship Marsh, Richard The Beetle Merimee, Prosper The Venus of Ille Merrit, A. The Moon Pool (in magazines) Pain, Barry An Exchange of Souls Pattee, Fred Lewis House of the Black Ring Poe, Edgar Allan Complete Tales and Poems Quiller-Couch, A. Wandering Heath Noughts + Crosses Old Fires + Profitable Ghosts Radcliffe, Ann Udolfo Reeve, Clara The Old English Baron Russell, W. Clark Flying Dutchman Frozen Pirate Savile, Frank Beyond the Great South Wall Shelly, Mary Frankenstein Shiel, M. P. Prince Zalesh etc. Smith, Clark Ashton The Star-Treader Odes + Sonnets Ebony + Chrystal Sandalwood others in MSS. + magazines Stevenson, R. L. Jekyll + Hyde + other items Toksvig, Signe The Last Devil Verne, Jules From the Earth to the Moon Off on a Comet (in mag) Wakefield, H. R. They Return at Evening Others Who Return Walpole, Horace The Castle of Otranto Webster, J. Provand The Oracle of Baal Wells, H. G. The First Men in the Moon War of the Worlds { } Time Machine { in magazines } Island of Dr. Moreau { } Wilde, Oscar Dorian Gray Fairy Tales Wiflarde, Dolf Stories of Strange Happenings |
Magazine Files
Weird Tales — Complete to date
Strange Tales — " " "
Amazing Stories — 1926-7
Strange Tales — " " "
Amazing Stories — 1926-7
Anthologies
Tales from the German (Hoffman, Hauff, etc.)
Lock + Key Library, 12 vols
Masterpieces of Mystery, 3 vols
Best Psychic Stories — French + Scarborough
Selwyn + Bount “Not at Night” Series {Not at Night, You Need a Night Light, Gruesome Corpses, By Daylight Only, Switch on the Light}
Not at Night — Asbury (pirated Am. Edition)
Tales of Mystery (Extracts from Radcliffe, Lewis, + Maturin — Ed. by George Saintsbury)
Beware after Dark — Harre
Creep by Night — Hammett
Omnibus of Crime — Sayers
Devil Stories — Rudwin
Lock + Key Library, 12 vols
Masterpieces of Mystery, 3 vols
Best Psychic Stories — French + Scarborough
Selwyn + Bount “Not at Night” Series {Not at Night, You Need a Night Light, Gruesome Corpses, By Daylight Only, Switch on the Light}
Not at Night — Asbury (pirated Am. Edition)
Tales of Mystery (Extracts from Radcliffe, Lewis, + Maturin — Ed. by George Saintsbury)
Beware after Dark — Harre
Creep by Night — Hammett
Omnibus of Crime — Sayers
Devil Stories — Rudwin
Folklore
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Arabian Nights
Curious Myths of Middle Ages — Baring-Gould Age of Fable — Bulfinch Myths + Myth-Makers — Fiske Haunted Houses — Flammarion Magician Among the Spirits — Houdini |
Haunted Houses + Family Legends — Ingram
Theory of Pneumatology — Jung-Shilling Miracles at Knock — MacPhilpin Demonology + Witchcraft — Scott Encyclopedia of Occultism — Spence |
Treatises
The Tale of Terror — Birkhead
