The Colour Out of Space was written by Lovecraft in March 1927, immediately after finishing his previous short novel, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward , and in the midst of final revision on his horror fiction essay Supernatural Horror in Literature . Seeking to create a truly alien life form, he drew inspiration from numerous fiction and nonfiction sources, and it became one of Lovecraft's most popular works, and remained his personal favorite of his short stories. The story

The Shunned House was written on October 16–19, 1924 and it was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. The title is...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction....

Written February–September 1930, this novella was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to The Colour Out of Space (1927),...