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Lovecraft and Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. If you want to thoroughly enjoy Lovecraft's writing, in my opinion, you should purchase two books: Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. At The Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, A Shadow Out of Time, etc., all of them are technically novellas. Technically, Lovecraft only wrote one novel: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Let me shed a little light on this discussion thread. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927).The Strange High House in the Mist (1926).Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920).The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919).The Cthulu Chick recently put together an eBook of the complete works of Lovecraft. Several of Lovecraft's other early '20s stories also repay reading, but I think anybody wanting to get a handle on Lovecraft should make a point of these. "The Picture in the House" I think the reference to Arkham in this story was the first "The Terrible Old Man", a rare amusing tale from the horror virtuoso

"The Statement of Randolph Carter", which introduces Lovecraft's alter-ego Randolph Carter But if you do, I would recommend reading all of the following pre-Cthulhu tales: It wouldn't be entirely wrong to read everything he wrote from 1926 on, while picking and choosing among the earlier stories. I don't find much value in his writings before 1920 and he did not reach his peak until 1926 ("The Call of Cthulhu", "Pickman's Model", and "The Silver Key" all date to that year, and much of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" does as well). Reading everything Lovecraft wrote might not really be necessary, though. You can find a chronological list of his work at. Parts of "The Thing on the Doorstep" will make more sense if you've first read "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". While his stories all stand alone, Lovecraft's later tales do refer to characters and incidents from earlier ones he even went so far as to have characters re-appear later (Richard Upton Pickman of "Pickman's Model" has a minor but important part in the later "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" the narrator of "At the Mountains of Madness" shows up briefly in "The Shadow Out of Time"). I would recommend reading them in pretty much the order he wrote them.