The Best H.P. Lovecraft Stories for Horror and Fantasy Fans

From June to November 2018, I read almost every H.P. Lovecraft story—at least, every story penned solely by him and a few collaborations.

Here, I'm going to list the stories I thought were the best; the ones with asterisks beside them especially stood out to me. This list is slightly updated from the one I've posted elsewhere because a few stories that didn't stick out at me once I finished reading have really stayed with me.

Since they're in the public domain, you can find Lovecraft's works for free here and here.

What are your favorite Lovecraft or Lovecraft-inspired works?

• "The Tomb"*

• "Dagon"*

• The Transition of Juan Romero*

• "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"

• "The Statement of Randolph Carter"*

• "The Cats of Ulthar"*

• "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family"*

• "Celephaïs"

• "From Beyond"*

• "Nyarlathotep"*

• "The Nameless City"

• "The Outsider"*

• "The Music of Eric Zann"*

• "What the Moon Brings"

• "The Hound"

• "The Lurking Fear"*

• "The Rats in the Walls"*

• "The Festival"

• "The Shunned House"*

• "Under the Pyramids"

• "He"

• "The Descendant"

• "Cool Air"*

• "The Call of Cthulhu"*

• "Pickman's Model"*

• "The Silver Key"*

• "The Strange High House in the Mist"

• "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"*

• "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"

• "The Colour out of Space"*

• "The Dunwich Horror"*

• "The Whisperer in Darkness"*

• "At the Mountains of Madness"*

• "The Shadow over Innsmouth"*

• "The Dreams in the Witch House"*

• "Through the Gates of the Silver Key"*

• "The Thing on the Doorstep"*

• "The Shadow out of Time"*

• "The Haunter in the Dark"

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