Top 20 Stories by H.P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror definitely shocked me when I sat through the Exorcist without batting an eye. The final conflict with the horror and twist ending tap into the annals of human's fear of what lurks beyond what our minds are capable (or willing) to comprehend.

A bit different from other Lovecraft tales, it's a very suspenseful and different take on (assumed) alien life.

Scary stuff, the chase scene will have your heart racing, a must read before "The Thing on the Doorstep".

The scariest part of this story, in my opinion, is when the protagonist looks out at "Devils Reef" and see's a bunch of bobbing heads swimming towards him. I think I got chills then.

This story is to me the scariest of all Lovecraft's work. Imagine being trapped in a small town surrounded by killer fish people.... Anyways a very scary story, and the conclusion was a big shocker.

This is a great story for fans of the creepy crawly horror with the added bonus of psychological turmoil. Reminds one of Edgar Allen Poe, and indeed, stands up well to anything the other master of horror wrote in his heyday.

my favorite lovecraft. possibly the spookiest story i've ever read. it is very slow to build, but the horrible magics described in this story are ingenious.

This wad another of the longer works by l Lovecraft. It's a disturbing tale of a youth obsessed with history and especially his genealogy. He discovered in his hometown that he is related to a wealthy and shunned land owner of Providence who had left Salem and apparently lived for an unaturally long period of time. There is huge twists and turns as his family and their doctor try to unravel just what Charles Dexter Ward has been discovering and practicing in his pursuit of greater knowledge.

Lovecraft shows how futile and powerless the actions of a protagonist are in this short story, when a man fails to believe in local superstition and ascends a tower dedicated to a malign deity.

A blend of science-fiction and horror: a story which initially is told through letters exchanged between the protagonist (in his safe urban world) and his contact (who is isolated in a rural backwater which is slowly being encroached upon by sinister forces).

This is a short and frightful yarn of a young scholar rooming in a house which was originally owned by a woman accused of witchcraft who disappeared during the trial many years before. The scholar begins having strange dreams in his attic room of this house. The dreams affect his nerves and his sanity. As well as pushes the people he resides with to the brink. Read this if you like an unpredictable and thrilling form of horror.

running zombies

Or swallowed by some huge sea dweller... thing.

amazing story probably the most imaginative h.p. lovecraft story i've ever read i didn't want it to end. THIS one, not dagon.

Not the easiest of reads and would not, perhaps, be recommended to those unfamiliar with Lovecraft

This was one of his longer works and also took place in the dream cycles. It is a fantasy epic to which I personally see no rival. The depth of the dreamlands along with it's strange landscapes and stranger creatures were all inspired by dreams Lovecraft had. A stupendous read for anyone who enjoys a darker hue of fantasy

The Outsider is definitely my favorite H.P Lovecraft story. This is because it tells more than one story. Along with being a horror, I believe it to also be a sad one, following the life of one who died and has come back to realize he is nothing but a ghoul

What's great about this story is that you're not exactly sure how to feel at the end. You want to be scared, but that doesn't seem to be Lovecraft's intent (although it works well in its own right). In my opinion, an author that is able to confuse not the mind, but instead the heart, is a true master of words. ^^ How about them philosophical apples?

One of Lovecraft's stories that isn't really scary, but is instead filled with a dreamlike beauty

A tad bit predictable and samey if you are already familiar with Lovecraft, however

asenath very evil

shies away from any of lovecraft's scientific or mythological writing(which one can, unfortunately, tire of) to deliver a solid, horrifying depiction of a house in east coast backwaters. i think the psychological depth is far superior to his more well known works. That this work is very short not only makes it very enjoyable, but compliments lovecraft's ability to craft and entire world of sheer terror in just a few pages. Think "texas chainsaw massacre".