Most Popular Cthulhu Books

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The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror

H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1971

Pan Book of Horror Stories #1

The Pan Book of Horror Stories

Johnny Mains, Herbert van Thal

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Ghosts · Gothic Horror

1959

H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus #2

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1985

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

March 27, 2008

The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1995

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1985

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

May 13, 2010

Waking Up Screaming

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

2003

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1971

H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus #1

At the Mountains of Madness

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1985

The Lurking Fear and Other Stories

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1971

Lovecraft's Best Short Stories

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

May 2010

The Innsmouth Legacy #1

Winter Tide

Ruthanna Emrys

Horror · Cthulhu

April 4, 2017

Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

Darrell Schweitzer, John Ashmead

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology

February 2016

The Mammoth Book of ...

The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction

Paula Guran

Horror · Cthulhu · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

April 14, 2016

Lovecraft Illustrated #6

At the Mountains of Madness

H. P. Lovecraft

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

March 2015

Shadows Over Baker Street

Michael Reaves, John Pelan

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Sherlock Holmes

October 2003

Call of Cthulhu Fiction

The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait

Robert M. Price

Horror · Cthulhu · Anthology

1995

Call of Cthulhu Fiction

Mysteries of the Worm

Robert Bloch

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Anthology

1981

Titus Crow #1

The Burrowers Beneath

Brian Lumley

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu

1974

Black Wings #1

Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

S. T. Joshi

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology

April 2010

The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft #2

Medusa's Coil and Others

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

February 2012

The Cthulhu Casebooks #2

Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities

James Lovegrove

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction

November 13, 2017

Black Wings #3

Black Wings III: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

S. T. Joshi

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology

January 2014

The Cthulhu Casebooks #3

Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils

James Lovegrove

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction

November 26, 2018

Against the Light

Kenneth Grant

Horror · Cthulhu

1997

Swedish Cults

Anders Fager

Horror · Cthulhu · Short Stories

September 6, 2022

The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft #1

The Crawling Chaos and Others

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

September 2011

Black Wings #2

Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

S. T. Joshi

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology

June 2012

Black Wings #6

Black Wings VI: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

S. T. Joshi

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology

November 2017

Black Wings #5

Black Wings V: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

S. T. Joshi

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology

May 2016

Black Wings #4

Black Wings IV: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

S. T. Joshi

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology

May 2015

Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country

Mark Howard Jones

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology

February 2026

Arkham Horror

Grim Investigations

Steve Lockley, Jennifer Brozek

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Novella

March 30, 2026

The Psalm of the Black Tide

Shuvam Ghosh

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

January 10, 2026

Arkham Horror

Dark Origins

Dave Gross, Steve Lockley

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Novella

April 17, 2025