Writer
H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The magazine’s central figure, though he never edited it.
Lovecraft was born 20 August 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, and died there 15 March 1937. His first appearance in Weird Tales was Dagon, October 1923, a reprint from The Vagrant (November 1919). He did not edit the magazine, and it rejected him more than once.
Stories first printed there include The Call of Cthulhu (February 1928) and The Dunwich Horror (April 1929). The Shadow Over Innsmouth ran in April 1936; that text is not on this page.
Public-domain texts are in the Weird Library. This page does not host the stories.
The Unlocking Shelf
Weird Tales first appearances and major Weird Tales titles. Not a complete career bibliography; amateur-press first publications and non-Weird Tales markets largely omitted. Truncated after principal Weird Tales fiction through 1941.
| Title | First publication | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| Dagon | Weird Tales, October 1923 | — |
| The Invisible Monster | Weird Tales, November 1923; with Sonia H. Greene | — |
| Imprisoned with the Pharaohs | Weird Tales, May/June/July 1924 (byline Harry Houdini) | — |
| The Hound | Weird Tales, February 1924 | — |
| The Rats in the Walls | Weird Tales, March 1924 | — |
| The Festival | Weird Tales, January 1925 | — |
| The Temple | Weird Tales, September 1925 | — |
| The Unnamable | Weird Tales, July 1925 | — |
| He | Weird Tales, September 1926 | — |
| The Moon-Bog | Weird Tales, June 1926 | — |
| The Outsider | Weird Tales, April 1926 | — |
| Pickman’s Model | Weird Tales, October 1927 | — |
| The Horror at Red Hook | Weird Tales, January 1927 | — |
| The White Ship | Weird Tales, March 1927 | — |
| Two Black Bottles | Weird Tales, August 1927; with Wilfred Blanch Talman | — |
| The Call of Cthulhu | Weird Tales, February 1928 | — |
| The Last Test | Weird Tales, November 1928; with Adolphe de Castro | — |
| The Curse of Yig | Weird Tales, November 1929; with Zealia Bishop | — |
| The Dunwich Horror | Weird Tales, April 1929 | — |
| The Silver Key | Weird Tales, January 1929 | — |
| The Electric Executioner | Weird Tales, August 1930; with Adolphe de Castro | — |
| The Strange High House in the Mist | Weird Tales, October 1931 | — |
| The Whisperer in Darkness | Weird Tales, August 1931 | — |
| In the Vault | Weird Tales, April 1932 | — |
| The Dreams in the Witch-House | Weird Tales, July 1933 | — |
| The Horror in the Museum | Weird Tales, July 1933; with Hazel Heald | — |
| Through the Gates of the Silver Key | Weird Tales, July 1934; with E. Hoffmann Price | — |
| Winged Death | Weird Tales, March 1934; with Hazel Heald | — |
| Out of the Aeons | Weird Tales, April 1935; with Hazel Heald | — |
| The Haunter of the Dark | Weird Tales, December 1936 | — |
| The Horror in the Burying-Ground | Weird Tales, May 1937; with Hazel Heald | — |
| The Shunned House | Weird Tales, October 1937 | — |
| The Thing on the Doorstep | Weird Tales, January 1937 | — |
| The Diary of Alonzo Typer | Weird Tales, February 1938; with William Lumley | — |
| In the Walls of Eryx | Weird Tales, October 1939; with Kenneth Sterling | — |
| Medusa’s Coil | Weird Tales, January 1939; with Zealia Bishop | — |
| The Evil Clergyman | Weird Tales, April 1939 | — |
| The Mound | Weird Tales, November 1940; with Zealia Bishop | — |
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | Weird Tales, May–July 1941 (serial) | — |