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Title: Supernatural Horror in Literature Title Record # 127581
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Date: 1927-00-00
Type: ESSAY
Series: Supernatural Horror in Literature
Language: English
Note: According to August Derleth's Introduction to the Arkham House editions of Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, the original version of this essay was written in 1926-1927 and first published in The Recluse (1927) by W. Paul Cook. The essay was subsequently "lightly" revised as per Stephen Jones' "Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature" in "H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre". It was in the process of being reprinted as a serial in The Fantasy Fan from 1933 through February 1935 when the magazine was discontinued. According to Acknowledgments in "H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre", the revised version was published in "Amateur Correspondent" #1, May-June 1937 and "Supramundane Stories" #2, Spring 1938. The version left unfinished at Lovecraft's death in 1937 was published posthumously in ''The Outsider and Others''.
Synopsis: Critical analysis of field of horror fiction, with reviews of various writers and their works.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1937 Foreword: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction
1945 Supernatural Horror in Literature [as by Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
Year Language Title
1985ⓘTranslated by Joachim Körber
 German Die Literatur des Grauens
2006ⓘTranslated by Ana Magalhães and Daniel Seabra Lopes.
 Portuguese O terror sobrenatural na literatura
2014ⓘTranslated by Alexander Pechmann.
 German Das übernatürliche Grauen in der Literatur
2021ⓘTranslated by David Camus
 French Épouvante et surnaturel en littérature [as by Howard Phillips Lovecraft]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Recluse, 1927 1927-00-00 ed. W. Paul Cook Recluse Press     78
quarto?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
 fanzine Vrest Orton  
The Outsider and Others 1939-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House (H.P. Lovecraft Trilogy #1)  
$5.00?$: US dollar
 xiv+
553
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Virgil Finlay Checkmark
Supernatural Horror in Literature 1945-00-00 Howard Phillips Lovecraft Ben Abramson  
$2.50?$: US dollar
 106
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 non-fic  
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1965-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House  
$6.50?$: US dollar
 ix+
[1]+
413+
[1]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Lee Brown Coye Checkmark
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1967-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Gollancz  
30/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
 ix+
413
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 coll  
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1969-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House  
$7.50?$: US dollar
 ix+
[1]+
413+
[1]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Lee Brown Coye  
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1969-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Panther 0-586-02866-8
£0.30?£: UK pound
 223
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1969-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Panther 0-586-02866-8
£0.30?£: UK pound
 223
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1971-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House  
$7.50?$: US dollar
 ix+
[1]+
413+
[1]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Lee Brown Coye  
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1973-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Panther 0-586-02866-8
£0.35?£: UK pound
 223
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Bob Haberfield Checkmark
Supernatural Horror in Literature 1973-00-00 Howard Phillips Lovecraft Dover Publications 0-486-20105-8
$2.25?$: US dollar
 ix+
106
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 non-fic Theodore Menten Checkmark
Weird Tales, Fall 1973 1973-09-00 ed. Sam Moskowitz Weird Tales 47961
$0.75?$: US dollar
 100
pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
 mag Gary van der Steur Checkmark
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1975-11-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House None
$7.50?$: US dollar
 ix+
[1]+
413+
[1]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Lee Brown Coye Checkmark
The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1985-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Panther 0-586-06324-2
£2.95?£: UK pound
 512
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Tim White Checkmark
Die Literatur des Grauens 1985-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Edition Phantasia 3-924959-01-3
DM 48.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
 127
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 non-fic Helmut Wenske  
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1987-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House 0-87054-039-4   lii+
448
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Raymond Bayless  
The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1987-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Grafton 0-586-06324-2
£3.50?£: UK pound
 512
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Tim White  
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1987-01-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House 0-87054-039-4
$18.95?$: US dollar
 lii+
448
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Raymond Bayless Checkmark
The Recluse 1927 1990-00-00 ed. W. Paul Cook Moshassuck Press     iii+
78
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth  
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1991-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House 0-87054-039-4
$19.95?$: US dollar
 lii+
448
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Raymond Bayless  
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror 1993-11-00 ed. Dave Carson, Stephen Jones Barnes & Noble Books 1-56619-496-2
$7.98?$: US dollar
 xii+
450
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Bruce Pennington Checkmark
The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1994-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Grafton 0-586-06324-2
£5.99?£: UK pound
 512
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Tim White Checkmark
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror 1994-04-00 ed. Dave Carson, Stephen Jones Robinson 1-85487-231-1
£6.99?£: UK pound
 xii+
450
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth Bruce Pennington Checkmark
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 1997-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House 0-87054-039-4   lii+
448
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Raymond Bayless  
The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature 2000-09-01 H. P. Lovecraft Hippocampus Press 0-9673215-0-6
$15.00?$: US dollar
 176
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 non-fic  
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 2001-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House 0-87054-039-4
$25.95?$: US dollar
 lii+
448
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Tony Patrick  
The World's Greatest Horror Stories 2004-03-00 ed. Dave Carson, Stephen Jones Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-5466-7
$7.95?$: US dollar
 xii+
450
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth Simon Marsden Checkmark
At the Mountains of Madness 2005-06-00 H. P. Lovecraft Modern Library (Modern Library Classics) 0-812-97441-7
$9.95?$: US dollar
 xxv+
186
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 novel  
O terror sobrenatural na literatura 2006-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Vega (Passagens #40) 972-699-852-2   146
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 non-fic Francis Bacon (artist) Checkmark
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself 2006-08-01 ed. Stephen Jones Pegasus Books 978-1-60598-201-4    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 anth Randy Broecker Checkmark
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself 2006-09-00 ed. Stephen Jones Pegasus Books 978-1-933648-01-9
$15.95?$: US dollar
 xxiv+
483
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth Randy Broecker , John Pocacio  
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 19 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself 2007-06-25 ed. Stephen Jones Fall River Press 978-0-7607-9123-3
$7.98?$: US dollar
 xxvi+
354
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Checkmark
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror 2008-00-00 ed. Dave Carson, Stephen Jones Fall River Press 978-1-4351-0745-8
$7.98?$: US dollar
 532
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Igor Satanovsky Checkmark
The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged 2008-00-00 H. P. Lovecraft Barnes & Noble Books (Library of Essential Writers) 978-1-4351-0793-9   xiv+
1098
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni Sven Geier  
H. P. Lovecraft: Masters of the Weird Tale 2008-11-01 H. P. Lovecraft Centipede Press (Masters of the Weird Tale) 978-1-933618-14-2
$495.00?$: US dollar
 1220
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll  
The Fantasy Fan: The Fans' Own Magazine 2010-00-00 ed. Charles D. Hornig Lance Thingmaker     192+
96+
55
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Checkmark
The Complete Fiction 2011-03-01 H. P. Lovecraft Barnes & Noble Books (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics) 978-1-4351-2296-3
$20.00?$: US dollar
 xiv+
1098
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni Sven Geier  
Supernatural Horror in Literature & Other Literary Essays 2011-04-07 H. P. Lovecraft Wildside Press 978-1-4344-3082-3
$12.99?$: US dollar
 132
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 coll  
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre 2011-07-21 H. P. Lovecraft Gollancz 978-0-575-09935-7
£20.00?£: UK pound
 xvii+
538
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Les Edwards Checkmark
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre 2011-07-21 H. P. Lovecraft Gollancz 978-0-575-09963-0
£16.99?£: UK pound
 xvii+
538
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 coll Les Edwards  
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre 2011-07-21 H. P. Lovecraft Gollancz / Orion 978-0-575-09936-4
£10.99?£: UK pound
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 coll Les Edwards  
Mythos: Myths and Tales of H. P. Lovecraft & Robert E. Howard 2011-10-31 ed. Gwendolyn Toynton Numen Books 978-0-9871581-0-9
$15.95?$: US dollar
 335
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth Checkmark
The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature: Revised and Enlarged 2012-03-14 H. P. Lovecraft Hippocampus Press 978-1-61498-028-5
$15.00?$: US dollar
 228
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 non-fic  
The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature: Revised and Enlarged 2013-07-03 H. P. Lovecraft Hippocampus Press 978-1-61498-068-1
$6.00?$: US dollar
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 non-fic  
Das übernatürliche Grauen in der Literatur 2014-02-00 H. P. Lovecraft Golkonda 978-3-944720-21-0
€16.90?€: Euro
 241
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 non-fic
s.BENeš?s.BENes
  
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft 2014-09-09 H. P. Lovecraft Race Point Publishing (Knickerbocker Classics) 978-1-63106-001-4
$35.00?$: US dollar
 xvii+
1102
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni Dave Carson  
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus: The Early Years: 1908-1925 2018-03-15 Finn J. D. John, H. P. Lovecraft Pulp-Lit Productions 978-1-63591-312-5
$29.99?$: US dollar
 527
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 coll Harold S. DeLay Checkmark
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus: The Early Years: 1908-1925 2018-03-15 Finn J. D. John, H. P. Lovecraft Pulp-Lit Productions 978-1-63591-313-2
$8.99?$: US dollar
 527
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 coll Harold S. DeLay  
Supernatural Horror in Literature 2018-04-23 H. P. Lovecraft The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society      
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
 non-fic Checkmark
Spectral Tales: Classic Ghost Stories 2019-09-06 ed. uncredited Warbler Classics 978-1-73402-920-8
$14.00?$: US dollar
 358
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth  
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre 2020-03-19 H. P. Lovecraft Gollancz 978-1-4732-3064-4
£25.00?£: UK pound
 560
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Les Edwards  
Essais - Correspondance - Poésie - Révisions 2021-09-00 Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Mnémos?Mnemos
(Intégrale Howard Phillips Lovecraft #6)		 978-2-35408-998-6   682
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Zdzislaw Beksinski  
Intégrale 2021-09-14 Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Mnémos?Mnemos
(Intégrales)		  
€120.00?€: Euro
  
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni Zdzislaw Beksinski , Zdzislaw Beksinski , Zdzislaw Beksinski , Zdzislaw Beksinski , Zdzislaw Beksinski , Zdzislaw Beksinski , Zdzislaw Beksinski  
The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales date unknown H. P. Lovecraft Voyager / HarperCollins 0-586-06324-2
£7.99?£: UK pound
 512
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Tim White Checkmark
The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales date unknown H. P. Lovecraft Voyager / HarperCollins 0-586-06324-2
£7.99?£: UK pound
 512
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Tim White  
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft date unknown H. P. Lovecraft Race Point Publishing (Knickerbocker Classics) 978-1-63106-001-4
£25.99?£: UK pound
 xvii+
1102
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni Dave Carson Checkmark
The Complete Fiction date unknown H. P. Lovecraft Barnes & Noble Books 978-1-4351-2296-3   xiv+
1098
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 omni Sven Geier Checkmark
Supernatural Horror in Literature date unknown Howard Phillips Lovecraft Dover Publications 0-486-20105-8
$3.50?$: US dollar
 106
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 non-fic Theodore Menten Checkmark
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