Lovecraft's experience with teaching

"It is seldom, O Gentlemen, that I have anything new to write ye of. So uneventful is my career that a trip to Boston is the occasion for four or five closely typed pages. But I now have another slightly out of the ordinary incident to relate—albeit one which hath not taken me out of my secluded study. To come to the point—I have been spending all my time since Monday correcting arithmetic papers for pupils in the two upper grades of the Hughesdale, R.I. Grammar School, and in concocting examples and problems and laying out work for them to do! Behold Theobaldus the longdistance pedagogue! The explanation? Simple and lucid! One of the still semi-rural branches of my maternal family inhabit the township of Johnston, wherein lies the village of Hughesdale. They are by nature scholastically inclined, and are largely represented on the school board. Last week there was dire need of a substitute teacher to take the place of the grammar-school principal, whose vacation is due; and in view of the amazing energy and versatility of my aunt they decided to keep the job in the family, so to speak. They are aware of the rather tenuous state of local finances, and rightly guessed that the unexpected emolument might not prove unacceptable. Now be it known that my aunt has never before taught school a day in her life. Though fond of children, and very capable and tactful in managing them, she has known schools solely from the pupil’s point of view; and has been a stranger to all the educational novelties which have sprung up since her graduation from Miss Abbott’s fashionable seminary for refined young females. Can you imagine such an one guiding the destinies of a village grammar-school? No? But then—you don’t know my aunt! As a person of ample culture and general education, there was of course no difficulty for her in directing the classes in the non-mathematical subjects. With amazing skill she seized on the complicated routine, and kept her classes busy at reading, reciting, writing exercises, and the like. But then arose the grim spectre—the hated, damned thing—ARITHMETIC! Fancy for a moment a person out of schoolbooks since the early ’nineties, endeavouring to grapple with the fadridden arithmetic of the day—the absurdly pedantic science wherein such terms as “common denominator”, “plus”, “minus”, etc. are, or seem to be, abolished, and wherein it is deemed treason to tell a child to divide fractions by inverting the divisor and proceeding as in multiplication! Such was the thing faced by my aunt, who candidly confessed her inability to attend to all the insistent needs of those two restless upper classes, and to explain to them each step of every example as scrawled on their daily exercise papers. They worked much of the time according to methods new to her, and to follow and correct their attempts in itemised fashion was practically impossible. All her evenings, anyway, were obviously to be taken up with the correction of other papers. But here behold the mighty redactor of amateurdom! All is well, for is not Tibaldus the Great at hand? Ecce homo! It is not alone bad verse with which my mighty talents can grapple! Which means that I offered my assistance, and have undertaken to be the Power Behind the Throne in the mathematical department of the Hughesdale Grammar School! Now I suppose Gahal-Bah, the Wonder, and Mocrates, the Superman, will marvel that the mere correction of 7th and 8th arithmetic should be any sort of task. But suppose, O Great Ones, ye were like unto me, who do abhor ’rithmetic with all the loathing of an ethereal nature? Most of the methods are as new to me as to my aunt, and the text-book is a crime—the work of a local dignitary who has a pull with the school board. But natheless the principles of mathematicks are through all the ages unvarying, and brains were made to use; so I mastered the damned thing Sunday night and have now set up as a pedagogue of the new school; albeit I will on my knees praise the Creator Friday, when I can dismiss it as a bad dream and go back to my old ways whenever ill fortune compels me to make mathematical computations! My aunt says she could not today do some of the complicated problems in the back of the book. I wishtagawd I could say the same; that my conscience might enable me to slide over them lightly—but unfortunately I still remember enough to do them, detest them as I do! Therefore picture me last night, waist deep in papers covered with everything from vulgar fractions to cube root, and tinkering at stupid mistakes as if I were patching up D. V. Bush’s latest metrical misdemeanour. Oh, Boy! Yuh’d orter see Grandpa marking up examples with a real red pencil, austerely, just as reg’lar teachers do! In the old days I used to long for the authority represented by one of those forbidding red pencils—but now I perceive that the authority is dearly purchased in the coin of fatigue and headache! And Holy Pegāna! The mistakes those kids make! Much as I loathe arithmetical pursuits, I’d have been ashamed in my grammar school days to turn in such work! Some of them do fairly well on the plain sailing—but the problems knock ’em all down! Yuh hafta go after ’em wit’ a diagram! Sometimes I find certain blunders strangely duplicated—and I smile to think of the slips of paper exchanged in classroom behind my aunt’s back. I know, because I have myself been a scholar—in my day I used to revise my class’s work about as I do the United Amateur today—though of course without pedagogical sanction. I hope that the stuff I furnished my youthful clients in those days was not as bad as some of the suggestions passed around by these Hughesdale hopefuls—if so, my aid was not of much value! What would you think of a seventh-grade class in which not a single member can tell how to find the depth of box when the length, breadth, and cubical contents are given? They have had all this, but the least jar in the routine throws their little brains all helter-skelter. Just now the trouble is coming from a mistake which the regular teacher made in her haste to escape vacationwards. At the last moment she put a problem on the board in which she must have written cu. in. when she meant cu. ft. Not one in the school could see any light, and the theory above outlined is due solely to Theobaldian deduction. But there is another good one on my aunt! In devising problems yesterday for today’s papers, and putting them on the board, she was distracted by the incessant chatter of an amiable and friendly-intentioned fellow-teacher; and made a question asking how much profit a farmer would make if he bought 3¾ bu. apples at $3.00 per bu., and sold them at 5¢ per quart. D’ya get it? Profit? The poor kids were all at sea—they knew something was the matter, but not just what! I am taking pity on them, and explaining very kindly that the apples got rotten or worm-eaten or something, so the unfortunate swain hadda sell ’em at a bargain! Yuh’d laff tuh see the bluff some of the kids made—and yet not one seemed to remember the second term of the common expression “profit and ———”. It taketh not much to puzzle the faculties of infancy, and there are no Galpinii in Hughesdale! The racial composition of the school is appalling. Dagoes exist in amazing numbers—children of the thrifty peasants who settle on little farms and shun the congested urban Italian colony. My aunt says that they are much superior in conduct and appearance to city Italians, and I can testify that the brightest kid in the institution is named Joe Merluzzo! By the way—devising problems ain’t the easiest work this side of Cleveland! If yuh’d don’t watch out yuh’ll make some absurd condition which the eye of youth will demur at. I hope I have escaped all pitfalls, making examples that come out well and fairly evenly. It is hard to tell just how hard or how easy the work should be made, and how to differentiate betwixt the 7th and 8th grade intelligences; but anyhow—’tis but for a week! To my mind, a teacher’s job is no job for one person. Teamwork is needed—one to hold down the youngsters through the day, and another to wrestle with the papers at night. My aunt says she positively could not manage the thing without aid, and I am sure I don’t see how anyone else can! She wants to give me a share of the financial spoils, but I scorn remuneration for labour performed in the cause of upholding the family’s scholastic honour! The house is now a veritable branch office of the school. Arithmetical paraphernalia abound in my room, whilst my aunt has set up another table in the library to hold her linguistic, orthographical, geographical, historical, etc. matter. At this point I am going in there to get one or two of the freak exercises handed in, which I shall copy in these columns! Ah! Here’s a good grammar one:

 JOHN HUNSPERGER 6B 

Parse “I thought the school bell was broken”. 

I, pronoun; thought, verb; the, l. adj.; bell, noun; was, adverb; broken, noun. 

“Boys should be very brave.” 

Boys, noun; should, adj.; be, prep.; very, adj.; brave, noun.

What a fine crop of Millars etc. is growing up to replace those who pass from our midst! Ah, well! Probably inefficient tuition is to blame for some of the dulness in rural schools. I’ll wager the regular teacher of the higher grades has been monstrous remiss in explaining arithmetical matters to her young charges. I am having to make copious marginal notes on their papers, explaining principles they should have known ages ago. In short, gents, Grandpa Tibaldus is getting to be quite some schoolmaster! If only I could keep up and about longer at a time, I should take my rattan in hand and seek an appointment in some institution of l’arnin—after I had tried everything else and failed! Congrats, O Sage, on getting out of it! I should “need more beefsteak” too, if I were to do a millionth part of what thou didst. If nocturnal home correction is to me such a burthen, you can fancy what sort of a classroom despot I would make. I’d last just about ten to fifteen minutes!"

(From the letter to Gallomo [Galpin, Lovecraft, Morton], April 1920)

List of Works of Fiction with H.P. Lovecraft as a Character

I've finally finished this list which I started compiling in 2015. It's more a draft, because I'm planning to add things like publication/release dates, links to the stuff that is awailable online, collections for the short stories, and credit the authors of those descriptions that are not mine. Unfortunately, a lot of information here is taken from a thread on some forum that I can't find now, or even several of them (one was apparently a post in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's blog which may be not online now).

Web Original

- Midnight Pals by bitterkarella (Twitter-based comedy fanfiction series about famous horror writers telling their stories as tales near the campfire)

- Ask Lovecraft by Leeman Kessler (impersonation show on Youtube where resurrected Lovecraft answers questions from the fans)

Webcomics

- The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) by François Launet (a light-hearted webcomic about Great Old Ones; Lovecraft appears in some strips)

- Lovecraft is Missing by Larry Latham ("it is the autumn of 1926, and horror author H. P. Lovecraft is not where he's supposed to be. His friend-by-post and fellow writing enthusiast Orwin Battler has traveled from Oklahoma to see him; occult expert Father Jackey is after missing pages from a rare book most recently in Lovecraft's possession; University librarian Nan Mercy is after the book pages as well as personal revenge against Lovecraft's probable kidnappers." Description from the page on TV Tropes)

- Lovely Lovecraft by MalakiaLaGatta (a comic about child Lovecraft interacting with his characters in Arkham and Dreamlands)

- Young Lovecraft by José Oliver and Bartolo Torres ("each panel in this series imagines how Lovecraft’s childhood would have occurred had he been visited by the horrendous creatures that later appeared in his finest fiction" Summary from Goodreads)

Comic Books

- No Way Out in Ghostly Haunts #28, December 1972

- Lovers by Alex CF (one-off comic book about Lovecraft and Shub-Niggurath)

- Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom by Bruce Brown and Renzo Podesta (child Lovecraft having adventures in a frozen world)

- Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom by Bruce Brown, Dwight L. MacPherson, Thomas Boatwright 

- Howard Lovecraft and the Three Kingdoms by Bruce Brown, Thomas Boatwright, Renzo Podestá

- The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft by Mac Carter (focuses both on HPL fighting his own creations and his difficult writer career; Lovecraft's creatures come to life when he's asleep)

- Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time by Brian Clevinger ("Atomic Robo has to fight a monster that sprang from the mind of HPL")

- Poe and Phillips by Jaime Collado and Miguel Cedillo (Poe and Lovecraft teaming up against an ancient emperor who wants to take over the world)

- Planetary by Warren Ellis (Lovecraft dissaproves of sea creature eggs)

- Lovecraft: The Blasphemously Large First Issue by Craig Engler, Daniel Govar (A limited edition comic that recasts H.P. Lovecraft as a modern-day, kick-ass action hero & alchemist)

- Some Notes on a Nonentity: The Life of H.P. Lovecraft by Sam Gafford, Jason C. Eckhardt (biographical graphic novel detailing Lovecraft's life from the beginning to the end)

- Rough Riders: Ride or Die by Adam Glass (young Lovecraft joins the team of historical figures to help with the zombie outbreak)

- The Crossroads: A Lovecraftian comic board book by Terrance Grace and Silvio DB (Lovecraft in Red Hook "finds himself standing at water’s edge, face to face with Yog-Sothoth and his own internal abyss". Summary from here)

- H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937 by George Kuchar (a grotesquely drawn biographical comic)

- Providence by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows (main character meets many Lovecraft's characters and eventually the man himself; an unusual example where Lovecraft is unaware that the things he wrote about were real)

- Recognition by Alan Moore (a story about Lovecraft's father Winfield Scott Lovecraft)

- Herald: Lovecraft & Tesla by John Reilly, Tom Rogers (illustrator), Colin Dyer (illustrator), Dexter Weeks (illustrator) ("Herald is a history soup mash-up that follows HP Lovecraft and Nikola Tesla as they fight the apocalyptic efforts of the Cult of Cthulhu. When Tesla's fiance, Amelia Earhart, is pulled into another dimension after stealing one of Tesla's unfinished devices, Tesla seeks out Lovecraft's arcane expertise to save her. Their journey pits them against ancient gods, secret societies, strange technologies, and other historical villains like Aleister Crowley and Thomas Edison. Borrowing heavily from Lovecraft's mythos and historical documents, Herald is a tightly-plotted character-driven adventure that shares thematic elements with Buffy and Lost.")

- Necronauts by Gordon Rennie, Frazer Irving (H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Fort battling evil forces)

- Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff, Keith Giffen, Enrique Breccia (a particularly gruesome example of the "Lovecraft wrote about real things" trope; follows Lovecraft from childhood to the end of his relationship with Sonia)

- Call of Wonderland by Dan Wickline (crossover of Cthulhu Mythos and Alice in Wonderland. A literary student learns about another world from Lovecraft's diary)

- Madness of Wonderland by Dan Wickline

- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Ancient Gods by Ralph E. Vaughan, Earl Geier ("During a trip through New England, an aged Sherlock Holmes is asked to find a missing man. The trail leads to the home of American fantasy writer HP Lovecraft, who gives information that sends the eminently logical detective in a surprising direction." Summary from Goodreads)

- R.H.B. by Andreas (Andreas Martens) and Rivière (François Rivière) (a bio-comic of R. H. Barlow)

- Howard P. Lovecraft: Celui qui écrivait dans les ténèbres by Alex Nikolavitch, Gervasio-Aon-Lee ("H. P. Lovecraft: He Who Wrote in the Darkness: A Graphic Novel". Biographical graphic novel about the last 12 years of Lovecraft's life)

- Une nuit avec Lovecraft by Philippe Marcelé and Rodolphe ("A Night with Lovecraft". "A young woman from the twenty-first century goes back in time and spends a night chatting with the master of fantastic literature.")

- Lovecraft by Reinhard Kleist and Roland Hüve ("An author is doing some research for a comic book when he meets Randolph Carter, Lovecraft's alter-ego. He finds out that Lovecraft's life is much more bizarre than his stories.")

- "De dónde vienen las ideas" de El Torres y Chema García (Where the Ideas Come From" in the collection "Lovecraft. Un homenaje en 15 historietas")

Video Games

- Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones (Randolph Carter is heavily based on Lovecraft in this game; Sonia Greene is also present in the game as Sonia Green Carter and can be added to the players party)

- Tesla vs Lovecraft ("On the eve of Nikola Tesla's greatest invention, his laboratory is burned down by the inhuman minions of the horror author H.P. Lovecraft. A showdown of epic proportions begins!")

- Lovecraft can become the leader of New England in a couple of mods for Hearts of Iron IV: Kaiserredux and Red Flood

Animation

- A Lovecraft Dream ("A short movie based on the real H.P. Lovecraft character and his nightmares.")

- The Unnamable (Lovecraft and Frank Long discuss horror at a cemetery. Unfinished)

Movies and TV

- Supernatural, season 6, episode 21 "Let it Bleed"

- Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom 

- Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom

- Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness

- Murdoch Mysteries ("Set in the early 1900s, when Lovecraft was a young teenager, the episode imagined Lovecraft as a Goth youth spending a season with his Canadian aunt. In Toronto, he became something of an autistic necrophiliac (presumably in the manner of the story “The Loved Dead”) who had an obsession with a rotten corpse. The show also implied that he had the psychic power to project monstrous fantasies into women’s minds." Summary by Jason Colavito)

- Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (Lovecraft is a sort of an action hero who steals Necronomicon from cultists)

- Out of Mind: The Stories of HPL (HPL meets the descendant of Randolph Carter)

- La Sombra Prohibida ("included Lovecraft as a character. Though not directly based on Lovecraft’s stories, it draws from his universe to tell the story of a woman who travels to an old mansion in the Spanish countryside, the Valdemar House, where odd things have happened through the years.")

- Le Mariage des Lovecraft ("The Marriage of Lovecraft". "The tribulations of the Lovecraft during the 1920s")

Audios

- Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft By Sara Davies and Abigail Youngman (a BBC radio drama about Lovecraft's marriage to Sonia Greene)

- The Lovecraft Invasion by Robert Valentine (Doctor Who audio from Big Finish. Doctor and companions enter Lovecraft's mind to fight a psychic invader)

Theatre

- Howard, mon amour by Martine Chifflot-Comazzi (23 phantasmagorical scenes from the marriage of Sonia Greene and H.P. Lovecraft)

- LoveCraft: The Musical by Scott McDowell ("H.P. Lovecraft, the patron saint of cosmic horror, was gifted with inspiration for his expansive oeuvre in a Faustian deal made with some sort of tentacled Mephistopheles. At the end of the prolific horror author’s life, the dark forces that populate his pages have now come to collect his soul.")

- Monstrous Invisible by Stephen Near (set at the end of Lovecraft's life, explores his  relationship with Sonia Greene)

- Night Gaunts: An Entertainment Based On The Life And Writings Of H.P. Lovecraft, With Additional Poetica Lovecraftiana by Brett Rutherford (a short play based on Lovecraft's biography)

- Lovecraft's Follies by James Schevill ("despite the name is mostly a meditation on the modern age (and a lot of fairly dated '60s-70s references to nuclear war and the space program) which uses Lovecraft as a jumping-off point for other issues. (It has some hilarious scenes with Lovecraft wandering onstage and ordering bombing raids, etc., though.)" Description by Jason Thompson)

Books

Novels

- The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker (a ghost story about the last years of Lovecraft's life)

- Shadows Bend by David Barbour and Richard Raleigh (Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard fighting servants of the Old Ones on a road trip during Dust Bowl)

- The Lovecraft Chronicles by Peter H. Cannon (an alternate history novel where Lovecraft lives till 1960; written in the form of three fictional memoirs)

- Pulptime by Peter H. Cannon (a short mystery novel in which Lovecraft meets Sherlock Holmes. Set in New York, Frank Long also plays a large role)

- Titanic: QED by Catt Dahman ("Written as H.P. Lovecraft would tell the tale, Titanic: QED explores the untold story of the night the Titanic sank". Summary from Amazon.com)

- The Planet of Tasteless Pleasure by Harry Harrison (the fourth book in the Bill, the Galactic Hero series; contains a scene parodying Silverberg's novel with Lovecraft, Howard and Gilgamesh)

- The Assaults of Chaos by S. T. Joshi (a novel where young Lovecraft meets his not-actually-dead father, travels to England, meets famous weird fiction writers, romances an original female character and faces a "cosmic menace")

- Honeymoon in Jail: H. P. Lovecraft, Detective by S. T. Joshi (“my little detective novel featuring Lovecraft and Sonia as detectives". Description by S.T. Joshi, from his website)

- The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge (a scholar obsessed with Lovecraft and Barlow relationship goes off the deep end; the relationship is presented in the novel as a romance)

- Corvus Rex by J.H. Kimbrell (the immortal protagonist meets young Lovecraft)

- Innswich Horror by Edward Lee (Lovecraft comes back to life as a zombie)

- Lucifer’s Lottery by Edward Lee (the main character meets Lovecraft who is a tour guide in hell)

- Pages Torn From a Travel Journal by Edward Lee (Lovecraft visits a seedy carnival while on a bus ride)

- Trolley 1852 by Edward Lee (Lovecraft is hired to write a porn novel; most of the story is the said novel)

- White Trash Gothic by Edward Lee (a sequel to Pages Torn From a Travel Journal; set in modern times, mentions the aftermath of Lovecraft's visit)

- Lovecraft’s Book by Richard Lupoff (Lovecraft is hired by George Sylvester Viereck to write an American "Mein Kampf") 

- Marblehead by Richard Lupoff (a longer version of Lovecraft’s Book. "Marblehead is a huge work, encompassing all of 1927, a year in which H.P. Lovecraft, researching a book he'd been hired to write for the Nazis, travels the East Coast in the company of Charles Sylvester Viereck." Summary from Goodreads)

- The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont (Lovecraft is a murder victim whose death sets in motion the events of the book)

- The Village Green by Edith Miniter (a novel about a literary club; Lovecraft appears as H. Theobald, Jr)

- Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore (a secondary character based on Lovecraft runs a cafe)

- The Other Lovecraft by Kyle Paquet ("HPL as the creator of a world full of his imaginary creatures, who need his help.")

- Providence Blue: A Fantasy Quest by David Pinault ("Providence Blue imagines the strange underworld journey of Howard after his suicide, through Texas flatlands, ancient Egyptian ruins, and New England city gutters. Meanwhile, as his girlfriend Novalyne Price investigates what caused the tragedy, she is led to Providence, Rhode Island, home of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, where she makes a terrifying, life-changing discovery.")

- The Secret Life of H.P. Lovecraft by W.J. Renehan ("This is not a book about the “Secret” life of H.P. Lovecraft, but more a monologue about how each one of the more famous stories that came from HPL’s fevered mind “could” have been inspired by a series of black envelopes." Description from Goodreads by Vincent Piazza)

- In the Lair of the Dreamer by Franlyn Searight (Lovecraft's ghost appears)

- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson (often alluded to and appears as a character, so do his aunt Annie Gamwell and the poet Hart Crane)

- Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg (Lovecraft and Robert Howard interact with Gilgamesh in hell)

- Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling, John Coulthart (Lovecraft makes a cameo as a publicity agent for Houdini)

- Equioid by Charles Stross (features a letter from Lovecraft about meeting the titular creature)

- The Lovecraft Coven by Donald Tyson ("Lovecraft wakes up in an insane asylum at Providence almost eighty years after his own death, trapped in the body of a man he never knew and hunted by shadow walkers determined to destroy him. His sole hope is to enter the fictional world he created for his short stories and find the Necronomicon, which has been stolen from Miskatonic University.")

- The Arcanum by Thomas Wheeler (Lovecraft is a member of the Arcanum secret society, together with Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Marie Laveau and others)

- Profanations by François Rivière (set in Providence in 1936. Lovecraft and Barlow appear as supporting characters, but the central story revolves around the various members of the Booth family, who move to Providence at 66 College Street)

- Der Hexer von Salem by Wolfgang Hohlbein (The Hexer from Salem "teams the hero Robert Craven up with a very action-heroey man called Howard. Howard is very knowledgeable about the Great Old Ones, and at one point Robert finds a passport of his which suggests that Howard is in fact Lovecraft who has either faked his own death, or is the man who will beLovecraft in a later life, or a reincarnation of Lovecraft, or something." Description by Ulrich Schreitmueller)

- Посмотри в глаза чудовищ by Андрей Лазарчук, Михаил Успенский (Look at the Eyes of Monsters by Andrei Lazarchuk and Mikhail Uspenski; cryptohistoric novel about the Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev, has a cameo of Lovecraft)

Short Stories

- The Invention of H. P. Lovecraft by S. K. Azoulay ("suggests that Lovecraft was a fictional creation invented by Jorge Luis Borges". Flapperhouse Magazine, Fall 2016)

- Shadow of the Immortal by Charles L. Baker (published in Eldritch Tales #11 1985, #13, #14 1987)

- Christmas with Uncle Lovecraft by Bruce J. Balfour (Lovecraft and his creations celebrate Christmas together. Crypt of Cthulhu 52, Yuletide 1987) 

- Fine Bindings by R. H. Barlow (a story about characters who seem to be partially based on Lovecraft and his mother)

- The Dark Demon by Robert Bloch ("Bloch creates a character that is obviously HPL in Edgar Henquist Gordon. The man is tall and pale, writes horror stories for small magazines and is a bit of a recluse, though he has hundreds of correspondents." Description by G. W. Thomas. First published in Weird Tales, November 1936)

- Shambler From the Stars by Robert Bloch (narrator's friend whom he asks to translate De Vermis Mysteriis from Latin is based on Lovecraft)

- Shadow From the Steeple by Robert Bloch (Lovecraft is one of the people investigating the death of Robert Blake)

- The Suicide in the Study by Robert Bloch (as Luveh-Keraph, high priest of Bast in Ancient Egypt)

- The Ultimate Ultimatum by Robert Bloch (Lovecraft is present among other horror writers in a large convention of writers and fans held in a large crypt)

- The Exiles by Ray Bradbury (Lovecraft appears among other horror writers in the unedited version, sitting near the chimney and eating ice-cream)

- Persistence of Memory by Jason V Brock ("an affectionate and moving story, a combination of visions – some related to Lovecraft’s life, some to his fiction, and some to neither – experienced by a dying Lovecraft." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- Worlds Apart by Donald R. Burleson ("uses – maybe, it’s one explanation given – the idea of multiple worlds in a story of how elements of Lovecraft’s life begin to bleed into the consciousness of a worker at an insurance company in a small Ohio town. It also offers an explanation as to how one particular Lovecraft tale came to be." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash by Ramsey Campbell ("Presented as the letters of a little-known writer, annotated by Campbell, this is not only a commentary on Lovecraft but pathological fan psychology and concludes with hints of genuine otherworldly horror. These are Nash’s letters to Lovecraft between 1925 to 1937. Nash starts out as a fawning fan but gradually becomes more abusive." Summary by MarzAat. Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)

- Asceticism and Lust: The Greatest Lovecraft Revision by Peter H. Cannon ("HPL revising a piece titled "Tropic of Cthulhu" with Henry Miller... written as a scholarly article bringing to light a previously-unknown Lovecraft revision." Summary by j d worthington. From Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft and Other Essays.)

- The Madness Out of Space by Peter H. Cannon (a somewhat humorous Mythos story where a character heavily based on HPL meets Nyarlathotep. Published in Forever Azathoth: Parodies and Pastiches)

- The Lurker in the Shadows by Nathan Carson (Lovecraft lives till 1970s and strikes up a correspondence with Stephen King. Published in Cthulhu Fhtagn!)

- Less A Dream Than This We Know by Christopher M. Cevasco (a story about Lovecraft's death)

- Weird Tales by Fred Chappell (Lovecraft meeting Hart Crane. Published in Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction)

- Masters of Terror by Laurence Cornford ("a DOCTOR WHO story which features HPL meeting up with the renegade Time Lord known as the Master, to battle a cache of lizard-man Silurians hidden deep in the swamps of Chepachet, Rhode Island . . . and based on HPL's own experiences venturing in those very environs, alongside C. M. Eddy, Jr")

- The Volume Out of Print by Jim Cort (Lovecraft is hired to translate Necronomicon from Latin. Published in The Horror of It All: Encrusted Gems from the "Crypt of Cthulhu")

- Correlated Discontents by Rick Dakan ("The grad student of “Correlated Discontents” is helping develop an intelligent software assistant which will work with natural language to make context-appropriate responses. During a beta demonstration fielding audience questions at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, things begin to go wrong. The student finds himself identifying more and more with a Lovecraft simulacrum and seeing him as the answer to some of his social inadequacies." Published in Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror. Summary by Randy Stafford)

- The Lamp of Alhazred by August Derleth (Derleth's tribute to HPL and to his imagination)

- Return to Providence by George C. Diezell, II  

- Howard Lovecraft and the Terror from Beyond by Robert M. Eber (Lovecraft conducts an occult ritual while his house is robbed. Published in Crypt of Cthulhu #52)

- Howard Lovecraft and . . . by Eldon K. Everett 

- Alice at R’lyeh by Murray Ewing ("Alice meets Howard Phillips Lovecraft in the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, and there they discuss nonsense & meaninglessness, until interrupted by... Certain Entities of an Unusual Nature... Bringing together the imaginative worlds of H P Lovecraft and Lewis Carroll, Alice at R’lyeh explores the black seas of infinity, the dangers of adding two and two, and the advantages of being fictional.")

- Four O'Clock by Sonia H. Greene (the narrator is said to be based on Lovecraft)

- Lovecrafting by Orrin Grey (published in Letters to Lovecraft)

- Tales of the Lovecraft Collectors By Kenneth Faig, Jr. ("In the first two tales Faig sets up elaborate locales and suitably Lovecraftian characters who hint darkly that HPL's recurring themes of undying evil and secret cults may have been based on more than just fantasy. The second also tries, oddly, to draw a link between Lovecraft's cults and the pagan underpinnings of the Nazis. The third tale examines whether or not the inspiration for HPL's 'Nyarlathotep' character was an obscure Victorian African American magician." Summary)

- Passing Spirits by Sam Gafford ("Lovecraft is a ghost. Or, maybe, something of an incarnation of his fiction. Or maybe he’s just the hallucination of the narrator who is dying of brain cancer while he continues to work at a bookstore. He’s not going to be getting medical treatment because he can’t afford it. Lovecraft, only visible to the narrator, makes wry comments on the narrator’s life and recommends stoicism to the dying man." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)

- Midnight in Providence by Charles Garofalo (Lovecraft is raised from the dead to stop the bloody ritual in Providence. Published in Crypt of Cthulhu #52)

- How Could It Be Elsewise? by Richard Gavin ("Lovecraft in the Jane Brown Memorial Hospital. In a vision, he meets, in a cemetery, an old relative he used to visit, Simon Smith. As they walk, with some unseen entity lurking follwing behind, they discuss the unease Lovecraft always felt in his life, vacillating between shrinking from the world and raging against it. That’s because, says Simon, Lovecraft spoke from a book few alive could appreciate." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- The Basilisk by David Hambling ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- Old Letters by Phillip C. Heath (The Diversifier, May 1976.)

- Susie by Jason Van Hollander (story about the last days of Lovecraft's mother, implies that "she has long been in contact with something monstrous from outside our world and that it impregnated her and expected to use Lovecraft to usher in “the Dawn of a Thousand Young”." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)

- A Meeting Beneath the Moon by Mark Howard Jones ("a strange, mysterious tale about a gardner tending a strange group of plants seeded from the stars, a forboding house in the background." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- A Gentleman of Providence Pens a Letter by Ben P. Indick (published in 1975 by The Strange Company press)

- In His Own Handwriting by S. T. Joshi ("Joshi uses one of the hoariest cliches in fantastic fiction, the bane of slush pile editors: a would-be writer getting their hands on, through fantastical means, completed works they can pass on as their own. This story has Lovecraft encountering, at various points in his life, the “roly poly man” who points out scrapbooks with stories Lovecraft only has to type up and submit to a publisher. And he does. But his conscience is uneasy. And the roly-poly man will visit Lovecraft one more time on his deathbed." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- Glimmer in the Darkness by Asamatsu Ken ("a combination of Lovecraft and the UFO phenomenon." Published in Letters to Lovecraft)

- The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft by Marc Laidlaw (a story about a Black fan of Lovecraft)

- The Premature Death of H. P. Lovecraft, Oldest Man in New England by Thomas Ligotti (A short story about Lovecraft's death - or not-quite-death. Published in The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales)

- The Black Druid by Frank Belknap Long (character based on Lovecraft confronts the representation of his anxieties)

- The Space Eaters by Frank Belknap Long (narrator's friend Howard is a horror writer who's having difficulties with his new story)

- Turn out the Light by Penelope Love (a story focusing on Lovecraft's mother Sarah Susan Lovecraft. Published in She Walks in the Shadows)

- Brattleboro Days, Yuggoth Nights by Nick Mamatas (Lovecraft and his Vermont acquaintance Arthur Goodenough discuss Whisperer in the Darkness in microscopic text on a postcard. Published in Nickronomicon)

- The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt ("tells of a mixed-race young man (part African American) named Jim Payne whose great-grandfather, Cavanaugh Payne, corresponded with Lovecraft". Published in Nickronomicon)

- Jitterbuggin’ by Nick Mamatas (a letter from Lovecraft to Jack Kerouac. Published in Nickronomicon)

- Falco Ossifracus by Edith Miniter (an early parody of Lovecraft's writings and personality. First appeared in The Muffin Man (1921), can also be found in Going Home and Other Amateur Writings (1995) and Dead Houses and Other Works (2008))

- Lovecraft in Heaven by Grant Morrison (a psychedelic story about Lovecraft's last days. Published in The Starry Wisdom : A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft)

- Night-Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates (about characters based on Lovecraft's family; a sort of "what if" where his father gets institutionalized a bit later in life. Published in Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense collection)

- The Armies of the Night by Reggie Oliver ("These stories feature Lovecraft as a character and describe his time working with J. Edger Hoover to assist the HPL." Published in The Lovecraft Squad)

- Ec’h-pi-el by Reggie Oliver ("These stories feature Lovecraft as a character and describe his time working with J. Edger Hoover to assist the HPL." Published in The Lovecraft Squad)

- Dispensation by Tim Powers (A story about two kittens that Lovecraft met shortly before his death and the fans who try to contact his ghost. Published in Down and Out in Purgatory)

- A Gentleman of Darkness by W.H. Pugmire ("set in the Red Hook district of New York City but, unlike Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook”, in contemporary times. The protagonist, a woman of mixed race, is friend to the sallow-faced Carl Pertwho is troubled by sleepwalking, stange dreams, and a musician neighbor playing a strange horn." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- Letters from an Old Gent by W. H. Pugmire (a set of prose poems in the form of letters from Lovecraft to his friends and family members, as well as to Edgar Poe and S.T. Joshi. Published in Uncommon Places collection)

- Some Unknown Gulf of Night by W. H. Pugmire, chapter 16 (inspired by The Statement of Randolph Carter. Characters based on Lovecraft and his friends Loveman and Moe enter the underground place on a cemetery)

- Unhallowed Places by W. H. Pugmire (in the chapter VI the character based on Lovecraft comes across a horrible object in the Little Italy disctrict of Providence. Published in Bohemians of Sesqua Valley collection)

- Lovecraft's Sentence by Joe Pulver ("in which the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft, upset at fictional portrayals of himself, gets his revenge". Published in Blood Will Have Its Season collection)    

- A Gent. Of Providence by Dave Reeder (Published in Fantasy Macabre #1, 1980)

- Death in All Its Ripeness by Mark Samuels ("Mark Samuels focuses on Lovecraft’s creation of imaginary tomes of forbidden lore". His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- The Return of the Night-Gaunts by Darrell Schweitzer ("Darrell Schweitzer focuses on Lovecraft’s childhood, when he was plagued with dreams of “night-gaunts” and was left bereft by the early death of his father." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- The Feverish Stars by John Shirley ("A young Lovecraft goes with his friend Lemuel Grimpon to do some stargazing at Narragasett Bay. On the way, they see a strange figure Lovecraft dubs the “rhombus man”. Lovecraft starts to feel sick and starts to sense the clockwork universe he believes in is has been poisoned by a “sickness in the void”, and a voice, telling him “Life is a hideous thing”, wants him to be its agent on Earth. Meanwhile, Lemuel goes for help, a stranger offering him a ride, a stranger with a past linking him to the rhombus man." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- When Death Wakes Me To Myself by John Shirley ("a tale of a therapy patient slowly remembering a former incarnation when he was H.P. Lovecraft". Published in Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror.)

- Prologue by Angela Slatter ("a poignant narrative of Howard Lovecraft’s early life. She details his lonely existence in a house where fishy things are certainly happening, and a moment of tragic violence when he understands how his own family relates to the paranormal world. Published in The Lovecraft Squad)

- Balsamo's Mirror by L. Sprague de Camp (magical mirror transfers the minds of Lovecraft and his friend into the bodies of two British peasants in the XVIII century)

- Captured in Oils by Simon Strantzas ("Its protagonist goes from a hobby painter which gives him some kind of inner life unlike the office drones around him. But then he finds himself obsessively drawing strange images during office meetings, soiling his pants, and having fugue states. Soon enough, he’s fired and in constant pain, yet he must continue putting his visions on the canvas. There’s something lurking in the canvas he must capture." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- Wife to Mr. Lovecraft by Lucy Sussex ("a series of comments inscribed on South Seas postcards, offers a disjointed series of vignettes written by “Sonia (once Lovecraft but now Davis),” that suggests that more people than HPL were blessed/cursed with the ability to discern the monsters among them." Published in Cthulhu Deep Down Under, v. 1. Summary by Michael R. Collings)

- Avenging Angela by Jonathan Thomas ("Lovecraft joins Houdini to investigate a locked room mystery. The mistress, Angela, of an artist named Burleigh committed suicide in his studio, and now someone is moving his mannequins about and leaving strange messages on a blackboard. Is it the ghost of Angela?" His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- Tempting Providence by Jonathan Thomas ("We get a ghost of Lovecraft in “Tempting Providence” by Jonathan Thomas and a Lovecraft who lives into old age. <...> Justin, an up and coming photographer, is invited to have a showing of his work at his former alma mater in Providence. He’s the past. After all, he did see Lovecraft’s ghost once when he worked at the school as a security guard. Representing the future is Palazzo, a deceitful school administrator who invited Thomas to show there and then stiffed him on the promised travel reimbursements. From there, things get strange. Justin wanders into a Providence described in in ways reminiscent of Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark” and where the elderly Lovecraft holds court with his young admirers in a café." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)

- Nemesis by Shawn M. Tomlinson (Lovecraft appears in an episode where one of the novel's characters convinces him to take the job of an assistant editor for Weird Tales)

- Witch’s Ladder by Donald Tyson ("Harry Houdini reveals himself to not be quite the diehard skeptic he seems in Donald Tyson’s “Witch’s Ladder” when he enlists Lovecraft and his friend Clifford Eddy to get back a magical relic, held by a nasty German sea captain, that threatens the life of Houdini’s wife." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- To Mars and Providence by Don Webb (a crossover with The War of the Worlds and the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft witnesses the arrival of Martians in 1898. Published in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches)

-  That Noble Dust by Henry J. Vester III ("a story about what might happen if somebody with the hobby of Charles Dexter Ward got ahold of the "essential saltes" of Lovecraft. This story is more of an homage to Lovecraft, in the manner of Derleth's "The Lamp of Alhazred". Summary by Stefan Dziemianowicz. The story was published in Chronicles of the Cthulhu Codex #3)

- The Man Who Collected Lovecraft by Philip Weber (A story about a Lovecraft's fan getting tangled into other people's search for immortality. Published in Crypt of Cthulhu #52)

- Dreams Are Forever by Scott Wiley ("It addresses Lovecraft’s love of cats with the story of Filthy the cat (she does, of course, not refer to herself that wau) and her memories of meeting young Lovecraft one sunny day. It was then, while his overprotective mother was asleep, Lovecraft told her a story of how cats came to be." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- From the Papers of Helmut Hecker by Chet Williamson ("A cranky and unpleasant horror writer picks up a cat on a book tour in Providence, RI. I'm sure everyone here can figure out where this one goes. Shades of "The Thing on the Doorstep"...." Summary by mogora. Published in Lovecraft's Legacy)

- HPL by Gahan Wilson (Lovecraft lives till 1990 by some strange means)

- The Gilman Woman by Stephen Woodworth (Lovecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman switch bodies. His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)

- The Managansett Horror by Peter Worthy

- Shadow over R'lyeh by Peter Worthy

- Lovecrafts Reise ins Grauen by Wolfgang Hohlbein ("Lovecraft's Journey into Terror". Lovecraft discovers that Old Ones are real and is drived to write a manuscript about them)

Bonus

- Act of Providence by Donald Grant ("The book commemorates Providence, RI as the host of the 1st World Fantasy Convention (1975). It includes a forgotten Lovecraft manuscript and a hidden underground Providence with sinsiter goings on.")

- I am Providence by Nick Mamatas (satirical murder mystery novel set on a fan convention. Doesn't have Lovecraft as a character but is about his fandom)

Some of materials used:

Lovecraft in Fiction https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/38471/

https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Lovecraft_as_a_character_in_fiction

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hp-lovecraft/4005-10641/issues-cover/

https://innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/lovecraft-the-character/

https://marzaat.wordpress.com/2020/08/20/black-wings-of-cthulhu/</cut>

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.horror.cthulhu/c/053eOGLhHl4/m/7ZAwB7TJCuwJ