Here is a timeline of H.P. Lovecraft’s earlier work—his first 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 are hardly exhaustive—so much was happening in the country at this point in history. We can only speculate about the factors which may have influenced Lovecraft as he was beginning his career.
Year
|
H.P. Lovecraft
|
Contemporaries
|
Current Events
|
1916
|
The
Alchemist
|
Tales of Wonder
By Lord
Dunsany
|
World
War I in progress,
stainless
steel invented,
end
of Progressive Era
|
1917
|
A
Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
|
The Son of Tarzan
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs
|
Woodrow
Wilson’s second term,
Women’s
Suffrage,
zipper
is patented
|
1918
|
The
Beast in the Cave
The
Poe-ets Nightmare
|
The Moon Pool
By
Abraham Merritt
The Decline of the West
By
Oswald Spengler
|
Influenza
epidemic,
World
War I ends,
first
fortune cookies
|
1919
|
Memory
Despair
The
Picture in the House
Beyond
the Wall of Sleep
Psychopompos:
A Tale in Rhyme
The
White Ship
The
House
The
Nightmare Lake
Dagon
|
Unseen—Unfeared
By
Francis Stevens
In the Penal Colony
By
Franz Kafka
|
RCA
is founded,
pop
up toasters invented,
soldiers
return from the Great War
|
1920
|
Poetry
and the Gods
Nyarlathotep
Polaris
The
Street
The
Statement of Randolph Carter
The
Doom That Came to Sarnath
The
Cats of Ulthar
|
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(
film)
The Golem
(film)
Swanee
Sung
by Al Jolsen
|
Babe
Ruth sold to the Yankees,
Prohibition,
labor
unions struggle
|
1921
|
Ex
Oblivione
Facts
Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
To A
Dreamer
The
Nameless City
The
Crawling Chaos
The
Terrible Old Man
The
Tree
|
Tarzan the Terrible
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs
|
Emergence
of Hitler and Mussolini,
Ku
Klux Klan active, first robot,
lie
detector is invented,
first
religious service broadcast by radio
|
1922
|
The
Tomb
Celephaïs
Herbert
West—Reanimator
The
Music of Eric Zahn
|
Negotium Perambulans
By E.F.
Benson
Nosferatu
(film)
The Wasteland
By T.S.
Eliot
Ulysses
By
James Joyce
|
USSR
forms,
insulin
developed
|
1923
|
Hypnos
What
the Moon Brings
The
Horror at Martin’s Beach
The
Invisible Monster
The
Lurking Fear
|
First
issue of Weird Tales
The Thing From Outside
By George
Allen England
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (film)
R.U.R.
By
Karol Capek
|
First
traffic signals,
primitive
TV
(cathode
ray invented),
frozen
food appears
|
1924
|
The
Hound
The
Rats in the Walls
Under
the Pyramids
(aka
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs)
|
The Amulet of Hell
By Robert
Leonard Russell
Rhapsody in Blue
By
George Gershwin
|
Dinosaur
bones found in Gobi Desert,
Calvin
Coolidge is president,
Will
Rogers,
spiral
notebooks,
loudspeakers
|
1925
|
The
Festival
The
Temple
The
Unnamable
In
the Vault
|
Lukundoo
By Edward
Lucas White
A Warning to the Curious
By
M.R. James
The Lost World
(film)
The Great Gatsby
By
F. Scott Fitzgerald
|
Surrealism
in Art, Realism,
Art
Deco
|
1926
|
Hallowe’en
in a Suburb
The
Moon Bog
He
Festival
(aka Yule Horror)
The
Outsider
|
Winnie the Pooh
By
A.A. Milne
|
Liquid
fueled rockets
|
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