North Smithfield High School Library: H.P. Lovecraft:

The links below provide audio versions of Lovecraft stories - take a listen!

• "The Shunned House"
• "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
• "Haunter of the Dark"
• "The Call of Cthulhu"

Complete text of S. Petersen's Field Guide to Cthulhu Monsters: A Field Observer's Handbook of Preternatural Entities

The John Hay Library Lovecraft Collection:

"A collection of correspondence to and from Providence-based speculative fiction author, Howard P. Lovecraft. Also contained are many of his original manuscripts."

Check out some copies of Weird Tales - a pulp magazine that featured works of some very well-known authors, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe.

   "Weird Tales debuted in March 1923, providing a venue for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction on topics ranging from ghost stories to alien invasions to the occult."

• The Pulp Magazines Project
• The Unz Review
• The Internet Archive

"A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos."

Approx. 90 minutes

"The following is a categorized, alphabetical list of all the electronic texts of Lovecraft’s works available on The H. P. Lovecraft Archive."

"A collection of correspondence to and from Providence-based speculative fiction author, Howard P. Lovecraft. Also contained are many of his original manuscripts."

Podcasts about some of the stories we are covering in class.

• The Call of Cthulhu: Part I
• The Call of Cthulhu: Part II
• The Call of Cthulhu: Part III
• The Shunned House
• The Haunter of the Dark: Part I
• The Haunter of the Dark: Part II
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Part I
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Part II
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Part III
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Part IV
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Part V

The articles listed below are connected to topics found within Lovecraft's work. Take a look!

• "The Great New England Vampire Panic"
• "Cosmic Dread: The Astronomy of H.P. Lovecraft"
• "Master of Modern Horror"
• "Cosmic Errors: The Peculiar Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft"
• "The Old, American Horror behind Stranger Things"
• "Creatures of the Deep: H.P. Lovecraft's Philosophy of Horror"

Definitions for some commonly seen words in Lovecraft's work:

1. Antiquarian: Connected with the trade, collection, or study of old and valuable or rare objects
2. Bas-relief: A type of art in which shapes are cut from the surrounding stone so that they stand out slightly against a flat surface
3. Blasphemous: Considered offensive to God or religion
4. Charnel: a building or chamber in which bodies or bones are deposited
5. Cyclopean: (1) Huge; gigantic; enormous; massive  (2) Of or constituting a primitive style of masonry characterized by the use of massive stones of irregular shape and size
6. Eldritch: strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear
7. Foetid: having a heavy offensive smell
8. Gibbering: Speaking rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock
9. Gibbous: Refers to a moon in between a half-moon but less than a full moon, or something that protrudes or creates an obvious bulge
10. Necromancy: (1) The supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future  (2) Sorcery or black magic in general
11. Rugose: Wrinkled; ridged
12. Spectral: Having a ghostlike quality
13. Stench: (1) An offensive smell or odor; stink  (2) A foul quality.
14. Stygian: (1) Of or relating to the river Styx or Hades (2) Extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding
15. Swarthy: Of a dark color, complexion, or cast
16. Unutterable: Too great, intense, or awful to describe
    sorcery or black magic in general.