While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Lovecraft books.
1. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Orange) (2017)
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2. H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (2016)
H. P. Lovecraft spent his life in obscurity, publishing mostly in the pulp magazine “Weird Tales”, and dying in poverty. Recognition came only after death. He has influenced numerous writers, musicians, and film makers. Indeed, the prolific horror writer Stephen King has called Lovecraft “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft contains: The Nameless City, The Festival, The Colour Out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Dreams in the Witch…
3. The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia (2008)
The third edition of this popular and extensive encyclopedia of the Cthulhu Mythos—updated with more fiction listings and recent material—this unique book spans the years of H. P. Lovecraft’s influence in culture, entertainment, and fiction. The expansive entries make this reference invaluable for anyone knowledgeable about the Cthulhu Mythos and a much-needed resource for those longing to learn about the cosmic horrors from past and present decades….
4. Lovecraft Country: A Novel (2017)
Soon to be a New HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The…
5. At The Mountains Of Madness by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (2015-12-15) ()
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6. The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft Volume 1: 70 Horror Short Stories, Novels and Juvenilia (2012)
“The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft Volume 1: 70 Horror Short Stories, Novels and Juvenilia” includes all the short stories, novels and Juvenilia writings of H. P Lovecraft. If it has been written by H. P. Lovecraft, it is in this book – search no more! The stories are listed according to the writing year rather than the publication year. This will help in reading the stories in the order they were written and follow on the progress in a timely manner. Short Stories and Novels: The Tomb (1917) Dagon (1917) A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917) Polaris (1918) Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) Memory…
7. Lovecraft’s Monsters (2014)
Prepare to meet the wicked progeny of the master of modern horror. In Lovecraft’s Monsters, H. P. Lovecraft’s most famous creations—Cthulhu, Shoggoths, Deep Ones, Elder Things, Yog-Sothoth, and more, appear in all their terrifying glory. Each story is a gripping new take on a classic Lovecraftian creature, and each is accompanied by a spectacular original illustration that captures the monsters’ unique visage.Contributors include such literary luminaries as Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Karl Edward Wagner, Elizabeth Bear, and Nick Mamatas. The…
8. The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (1987)
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. LovecraftThis is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft’s most horrifying visions, including: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos—a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil to threaten all mankind. An evil man’s desire to perform an unspeakable ritual leads him in search of the fabled text of The Necronomicon….
9. The Road to Madness: Twenty-Nine Tales of Terror (1996)
One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes:IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS–Houdini seeks to reveal the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night.AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS–An unsuspecting expedition uncovers a city of untold terror, buried beneath an Antarctic wasteland.Plus, for the first time…
10. The Dreams in the Witch House: And Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics) (2004)
Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University’s infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pages of Abdul Alhazred’s dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. The Dreams in the Witch House, gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft’s primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers.This volume is a companion to the other two Penguin Classics edition of Lovecraft’s…
Best Lovecraft Books That Will Hook You
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Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson
Author(s): John L. Steadman
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 558 Kb, Download: epub
ID: 2799170
New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft
Author(s): Sean Moreland
Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2311367
The Lovecraftian Poe: essays on influence, reception, interpretation, and transformation
Author(s): Lovecraft, Howard Phillips;Moreland, Sean;Poe, Edgar Allan
Publisher: Lehigh University Press, Year: 2017;2012, Size: 6 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2716905
The love of ruins letters on Lovecraft
Author(s): Lovecraft, Howard Phillips;Michaelsen, Scott J.;Shershow, Scott Cutler
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Year: 2017, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2716904
A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft
Author(s): S. T. Joshi
Publisher: Hippocampus Press, Year: 2016, Size: 401 Kb, Download: epub
ID: 1503255
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are truly record-breakers according to USA Today, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.