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1926 April 17: Returns to Providence (10 Barnes St.), essentially ending marriage (divorce proceedings not undertaken until 1929). Writes “The Call of Cthulhu,” “Pickman’s Model,” “The Silver Key,” and others. Begins corresponding with August Derleth.

1926–Writes The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

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1927 Writes The Case of Charles Dexter Ward,“The Colour out of Space.” Begins corresponding with Donald Wandrei.

August: Travels to Vermont, Maine, and elsewhere in New England.

1928 May–July: Spends summer in Brooklyn with Sonia as she tries to set up hat shop. Travels extensively (Brattleboro, Vt; Athol and Wilbraham, Mass.; Endless Caverns, Va.). Writes “The Dunwich Horror.”

1929 April–May: Travels extensively (Yonkers, N.Y.; Norfolk, Williamsburg, Richmond, Va.; New York City; New Paltz and Hurley, N.Y.).

1929–Ghostwrites “The Mound” for Zealia Bishop. Writes Fungi from Yuggoth

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1930 April–June: Travels (New York City; Charleston, S.C.; Richmond, Va.; Kingston and West Shokan, N.Y.; Athol and Worcester, Mass.). Begins corresponding with Henry S.Whitehead and Robert E.Howard. Writes “The Whisperer in Darkness.” Ghostwrites “Medusa’s Coil” for Zealia Bishop.

August: Three-day excursion to Quebec. Writes lengthiest nonfiction work, A Description of the Town of Quebeck(October–January 1931).

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1931 May–June: Travels (St. Augustine, Dunedin, Key West, Fla.; Savannah, Ga.; Charleston; Richmond; New York City). Writes At the Mountains of Madnessand “The Shadow over Innsmouth.”

1932 May–July: Travels (New York City; Shenandoah Valley; Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tenn.; Natchez and New Orleans, La. [meets E.Hoffmann Price]). Writes “The Dreams in the Witch House.” Revises stories for Hazel Heald (“Out of the Æons” and others).

July 3: Death of HPL’s elder aunt Lillian D.Clark.

1932–Writes “Through the Gates of the Silver Key” (with E. Hoffmann Price).

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1933 April: Begins corresponding with Robert Bloch.

May 15: Moves to 66 College St. with younger aunt, Annie E.P.Gamwell. Later, writes “The Thing on the Doorstep.” Revises “Supernatural Horror in Literature” for incomplete serialization in The Fantasy Fan

(October 1933–February 1935).

1934 April–July: Travels (Charleston; Savannah; St Augustine; Fredericksburg, Va.; spends May–June with R.H.Barlow in De Land, Fla.).

1934–Writes “The Shadow out of Time.”

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1935 June–September: Travels (Fredericksburg; Charleston; New York City; spends June–August with Barlow in De Land, Fla.).

November: Writes “The Haunter of the Dark.”

1936 Corresponds briefly with Willis Conover, Fritz Leiber, and James Blish. Barlow visits HPL in Providence (July– September). Revises Well-Bred Speechfor Anne Tillery Renshaw.

1937 March 15: Dies at Jane Brown Memorial Hospital in Providence. Barlow appointed literary executor.

1939 Arkham House (August Derleth and Donald Wandrei) publishes The Outsider and Others.

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Abbreviations and Short Titles

AHT Arkham House transcipts of H.P.Lovecraft’s letters AMS autograph manuscript

An1 The Annotated H.P.Lovecraft(1997)

An2 More Annotated H.P.Lovecraft(1999)

AT The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works(2001) BWS Beyond the Wall of Sleep(1943)

Cats Something about Cats and Other Pieces(1949)

CC The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories(1999) Crypt Crypt of Cthulhu

(magazine)

D Dagon and Other Macabre Tales(rev. ed. 1986) DB The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces(1966)

DH The Dunwich Horror and Others(rev. ed. 1984) ET Schultz and Joshi, An Epicure in the Terrible(1991) FDOC Joshi, H.P.Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism(1991) HM The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions(rev. ed. 1989) HPL H.P.Lovecraft

JHL John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, R.I. LR Cannon, Lovecraft Remembered(1998)

LS Lovecraft Studies(magazine)

Marginalia Marginalia(1944)