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At the Mountains of Madness

Description:: Typed note at end: "Finished May 1, 1931." First published in Astounding Stories, 16, No. 6 - 17, No. 2 (Feb-Mar-Apr 1936)
Year:: 1931
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fossils > Collection and preservation > Fiction; Supernatural in literature; Stone carving > Fiction; Antarctica > Fiction; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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At the Mountains of Madness

Description:: Extensively revised. Autograph note at end: "Begun Feby. 24, 1931. Finish'd March 22, 1931." The cover-sheet has a "Schedule of Circulation. Augustus Derletus to Donaldus …
Year:: 1931
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator); Old Colony Co-operative Bank (Providence, R.I.) (creator); Bacon, Victor E. (correspondent); Courtney, William Basil, 1894-1966 (correspondent); De Castro, Adolphe Danziger, 1866- (correspondent); Harris, Woodburn, 1888- (correspondent); Kuntz, Eugene B., 1865-1944 (correspondent); Long, Frank Belknap, 1901-1994 (correspondent); Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (recipient); Loveman, Samuel, 1887-1976 (correspondent); McNeil, Everett, 1862-1929 (recipient); Moe, Maurice W., 1882-1940 (correspondent); Moidel, Jacob (correspondent); Morton, James F. (James Ferdinand), 1870-1941 (correspondent); Newton, Dudley, 1864-1954 (correspondent); Sandusky, Albert A. (correspondent); Sawyer, Laurie A. (correspondent); Sechrist, Edward L. (correspondent); Talman, Wilfred Blanch, 1904-1986 (correspondent)
Subject:: Antarctica--Fiction; Fantasy fiction; Fossils--Collection and preservation--Fiction; Horror tales, American; Scientific expeditions--Fiction; Short stories, American; Stone carving--Fiction; Supernatural in literature
Local ID:: bdr:425214; bdr425214
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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At the Mountains of Madness - plot notes

Description:: Written on two unfolded envelopes. First published in Something About Cats and Other Pieces (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1949). Items 145 and 146 are …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fossils > Collection and preservation > Fiction; Supernatural in literature; Stone carving > Fiction; Antarctica > Fiction; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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Azathoth

Description:: This revised manuscript is a fragment of a never completed novel (see HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 1925 May 28). First published in Leaves, 2 …
Year:: 1922
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator); Daas, Edward F., 1879-1962 (correspondent); Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (recipient); Martin, Harry E., 1887-1972 (correspondent)
Subject:: Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; Short stories, American
Local ID:: bdr:425216; bdr425216
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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The Beast in the Cave

Description:: Written in ink. With manuscript notations "4/21/05" and "Keep First published in The Vagrant, No. 7 (June 1918)."
Year:: 1905
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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The Beast in the Cave

Description:: Carbon copy. "Published in The Vagrant" is typed at the top of p. 1.
Year:: 1905
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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The Beast in the Cave

Description:: With manuscript corrections. Although dated in the text as "April 21, 1905," this was probably typed by R.H. Barlow. First published in The Vagrant, No. …
Year:: 1905
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Description:: The story was originally composed in early 1919, and first published in Pine Cones, 1, No. 6 (Oct 1919). This typescript contains revisions that are …
Year:: 1925
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator); Loveman, Samuel, 1887-1976 (creator); Marlowe, Harry R., 1879-1940 (creator); Slater, William B. (creator); Townsend, Clyde G. (creator); Cone, C. Edward (creator); Conover, Howard R. (creator); Cook, W. Paul, 1881-1948 (creator); Kuntz, Eugene B., 1865-1944 (creator); Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (recipient)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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The Call of Cthulhu

Description:: With some manuscript corrections. Typescript prepared by HPL sometime in the summer or early fall of 1926 (SL 239, HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, Oct. …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction; Cthulhu (Fictitious character)
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

Description:: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short novel (51,500 words) set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. The novel tells the story …
Year:: 1927
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator); Bacon, Victor E. (correspondent); Derleth, August, 1909-1971 (correspondent); Kirk, George Willard (correspondent); Kuntz, Eugene B. (correspondent); McNeil, Everett, 1862-1929 (correspondent); Moe, Maurice Winter (correspondent); Moidel, Jacob (correspondent); Morton, James F. (correspondent); Sandusky, Albert A. (correspondent); Macfadden Publications (correspondent)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

Description:: Incomplete typed copy, pages -23 only. Narrative stops at page 16 of the handwritten draft copy of this same story (A32500 [2]). Possibly typed by …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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Celephaïs

Description:: With minor manuscript corrections. Story originally written during early November 1920 (SL 69, HPL to FBL on Nov.19, 1920: "I wrote Celephais a week ago, …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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The Challenge from Beyond

Description:: This manuscript portion of a round-robin story is headed: "3 - by H. P. Lovecraft". The Challenge from Beyond was written during August 1935, as …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; Fantasy fiction
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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Collapsing Cosmoses

Description:: Written in collaboration with Robert H. Barlow during June and August, 1935, while HPL was visiting in De Land, FL. The first and last paragraphs …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator); Barlow, R. H. (Robert Hayward), 1918-1951; Eggleston, Hammond
Subject:: Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; Short stories, American
Local ID:: bdr:425224; bdr425224
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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Composite Story

Description:: Pencil draft, includes drawings. First line: "On a far orb in a distant galaxy dwell a vastly superior race of semi-material beings who can navigate …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Genre:: drawings (visual works)
Subject:: Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; Short stories, American; The Challenge From Beyond
Local ID:: bdr:425226; bdr425226
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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Cool Air

Description:: Story originally written in March 1926 (HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 1926 Mar 27-28). Typescript prepared probably by HPL in late 1927. First published in …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; Short stories, American
Local ID:: bdr:425227; bdr425227
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection

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Dagon

Description:: With minor manuscript corrections. Story was originally written in July 1917, and first published in The Vagrant, No. 11 (Nov 1919). This single-spaced typescript (probably …
Contributor:: Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (creator)
Subject:: Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; Short stories, American
Local ID:: bdr:425228; bdr425228
Collection:: Brown University Library; Howard P. Lovecraft collection