H. P. Lovecraft spent his life in obscurity, publishing mostly in the pulp magazine "Weird Tales", and died in poverty. Recognition came only after death. He has influenced numerous writers, musicians, and film makers including Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, William S. Burroughs, Ramsay Campbell and Caitlin R. Kiernan. Indeed, the prolific Stephen King calls Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft contains: The Nameless City, The Festival, The Colour Out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Azathoth, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Celephais, Cool Air, Dagon, Ex Oblivione, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, From Beyond, He, Herbert West--Reanimator, Hypnos, In the Vault, Memory, Nyarlathotep, Pickman's Model, The Book, The Cats of Ulthar, The Descendant, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Evil Clergyman, The Horror at Red Hook, The Hound, The Lurking Fear, The Moon-Bog, The Music of Erich Zann, The Other Gods, The Outsider, The Picture in the House, The Quest of Iranon, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Silver Key, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Strange High House in the Mist, The Street, The Temple, The Terrible Old Man, The Thing on the Doorstep, The Tomb, The Transition of Juan Romero, The Tree, The Unnamable, The White Ship, What the Moon Brings, Polaris, The Very Old Folk, Ibid, Old Bugs, Sweet Ermengarde, A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, The History of the Necronomicon.