Lovecraft in History--the Second Decade

Here is a another timeline of H.P. Lovecraft’s work, this one from his second decade.  Publication dates of his various works of fiction are juxtaposed with the work of some of his contemporaries, as well as some important historical or cultural events from the same time period.  The listings cannot be exhaustive, but hopefully will provide some context to his work.

Year	H.P. Lovecraft	Contemporaries	Current Events
1927	The Green Meadow Nathicana Two Black Bottles The Horror at Red Hook The Colour Out of Space Pickman’s Model Supernatural Horror in Literature (Essay)	The Villa Désirée, By May Sinclair	The Jazz Singer, (film) Showboat (musical) Lindbergh flies the “Spirit of St. Louis” monoplane
1928	The Last Test The Call of Cthulhu Cool Air The Shunned House	The Red Lodge, By H.R. Wakefield The Beast With Five Fingers, By William Fryer Harvey	First Mickey Mouse films Charlie Chaplin Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” Maurice Ravel composes “Bolero” Color TV invented Geiger Counter invented Black Friday—U.S. Stock Exchange Collapses
1929	The Wood The Silver Key The Dunwich Horror	The Deserted Garden, By August Derleth	Alfred Hitchcock directs “Blackmail” Einstein’s Unified Field Theory St Valentine’s Day Massacre “Singing in the Rain”
1930	The Electric Executioner The Ancient Track Fungi From Yuggoth  (various poems published throughout the 30s)	A Rose for Emily, By William Faulkner The Book, By Margaret Irwin	Grant Woods painting of “American Gothic”
1931	The Whisperer in Darkness The Strange High House in the Mist		Formation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Nautilus submarine explores the Arctic Ocean
1932	The Trap	The Hunters From Beyond, By Clark Ashton Smith	Famine in the USSR Dashiell Hammett publishes “The Thin Man” First Tarzan Film “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”
1933	The Other Gods The Dreams in the Witch House	The Double Shadow, By Clark Ashton Smith The Chadbourne Episode By Henry S. Whitehead White Zombie By Vivian Meik	Hitler granted dictatorial powers “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (film) Byrd’s second Expedition to the South Pole
1934	From Beyond Through the Gates of the Silver Key		Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” (musical) FBI shoots John Dillinger, “Public Enemy #1”
1935	The Quest of Iranon The Challenge from Beyond		Formation of AA Radar to detect aircraft developed
1936	In a Sequester’d Providence Churchyard       Where Poe Once Walk’d At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time The Haunter of the Dark	The Tarn, By Hugh Walpole	Boulder Dam is built “Pennies From Heaven” Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin axis
1937	The Thing on the Doorstep Notes on Writing Weird Fiction (Essay)	The Seeds From Outside, By Edmond Hamilton The Werewolf Snarls, By Manley Wade Wellman	Picasso’s “Guernica” Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” First jet engine Hindenburg disaster (dirigible)