Trail of the Necronomicon: An Anthology of the Stories and Novels that Influenced H.P. Lovecraft

A collection of the texts that influenced H.P. Lovecraft and his world (includes stories, poems and novels).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dreamland (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849

The Satyricon (excerpts) (c. 37) by Petronius Arbiter, 20-66
Translator: W. C. Firebaugh

Panthia and Meroe (from The Golden Ass) by Lucius Apuleius125?-180
Translator: Adlington, William

The Secret History of the Court of Justinian (excerpt) by Procopius (Sixth Century)

Grendel (from Beowulf) (8th century?)
Trans: Frances Gummere

Lucifer (from The Divine Comedy) (1320) by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Trans: Henry W. Longfellow

The Corpse (from Morte d’Arthur) by Sir Thomas Malory 1400-1470

Daemonologie (1597) by King James I (1566 –1625)

Animal Sacrifices (1913) by Sir James George Frazer 1854-1941

The Werewolf as Psychopompos (1872) by John Fiske 1842-1901

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (1855) by Robert Browning 1812-1889

The mental traveler (1803) by William Blake 1757-1827

Frankenstein (excerpt) (1819) by Mary Shelley 1797-1851

The Vampyre (1818) by John Polidori 1795-1821

Lamia (1919) by John Keats 1795-1821

The Ballad of the Ancient Mariner (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

The Ring: A Tale (1852) by Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852)

Wandering Willie's Tale (1824) by Walter Scott 1771-1832 (Scottish)

The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar (1845) by Edgard Allan Poe 1809-1849

Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 -1864)

The Devil and Tom Walker (1824) byWashigton Irving 1783-1859

Homeward Bound (1824) by Heinrich Heine 1797-1856
Translated by Emma Lazarus

Tam O’Shanter (1790) by Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens 1812-1870

The Werewolf (from The Phantom Ship) (1896) by Frederick Marryat, 1792-1848

The Temptations of St. Anthony (excerpt)) 1874 by Gustave Flaubert 1821-1880
Trans: Lafcadio Hearn

The Horla (1886) by Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893

Torture by Hope by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam 1838-1889

The Body-Snatcher (1884) By Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 1843 – 1916

The upper berth (1894) by Francis Marion Crawford 1854-1909

The Yellow Sign (1895) by Robert Chambers 1802-1871

The Yellow Wallpaper (1893)Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860 1935

The Monkey’s Paw (1902) by William Wymark Jacobs 1863-1943

The Story of a Panic (1912) by E.M. Forster, 1879-1970

The Damned Thing (1893) Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914

The Shadows on the Wall (1903) Mary Freeman Wilkins 1852-1930

The Dead Valley (1895) by Ralph Adams Cram 1863-1942

The Mark of the Beast (1915) by Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936

The Burial of the Rats (1914) by Bram Stoker 1847-1912

The Were-wolf (1896) by Clemence Housman, 1861-1955

The Listeners by Walter de la Mare 1873-1956

The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930

The Shadow-Line (1917) by Joseph Conrad 1857-1924

The White People (1922) by Arthur Machen 1863-1947

The Wendigo by Algernon Henry Blackwood, 1869 - 1951

Bethmoora (1910) by Lord Dunsany Lord Dunsany 1878- 1957

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1904) by M.R. James 1862-1936

The Plattner Story (1896) by Herbert George Wells 1866-1946


NOVELS

Wieland; or, The Transformation (1798) by Charles Brockden Brown, 1771-1810

Melmoth the Wanderer (Excerpts) (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin, 1782-1824

The Amber Witch (1846) by Wilhelm Meinhold 1797-1851
Translated by Lucie Duff Gordon

Zanoni (1842) by Edward Bulwer Lytton 1803-1873

The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hogdson



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