I'm reading all of The Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft by November 19th 2013.

I have many friends who have accomplished frankly amazing physical feats in the name of charity fundraising, and in comparison reading a lot of books possibly seems ridiculously tame. However, the entire works, when put together, come to 708 A4 pages... and at my reading speed, to get through that in a month and a half is going to be a huge personal challenge.

H.P. Lovecraft is considered by many to be the father of modern horror and much of his work was concerned with man's inability to remain sane when confronted with the knowledge of our utter insignificance in the universe at large. Themes of madness and deterioration are common in his work, as well as being rife in his personal life.

With this in mind I'll be joining some members of the FantasyBookClub.org to read all of The Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft in order to raise money towards the mental health charity Mind. Mind do brilliant work supporting people who find our own mundane universe without any of the challenging nihilistic Lovecraftian elements.

I will be reading the free CthulhuChick edition in story publication order. This is available free of charge from her website and a range of formats.

The full list of stories is as follows:

The Tomb (1917)

Dagon (1917)

Polaris (1918)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)

Memory (1919)

Old Bugs (1919)

The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)

The White Ship (1919)

The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)

The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)

The Terrible Old Man (1920)

The Tree (1920)

The Cats of Ulthar (1920)

The Temple (1920)

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)

The Street (1920)

Celephaïs (1920)

From Beyond (1920)

Nyarlathotep (1920)

The Picture in the House (1920)

Ex Oblivione (1921)

The Nameless City (1921)

The Quest of Iranon (1921)

The Moon-Bog (1921)

The Outsider (1921)

The Other Gods (1921)

The Music of Erich Zann (1921)

Herbert West — Reanimator (1922)

Hypnos (1922)

What the Moon Brings (1922)

Azathoth (1922)

The Hound (1922)

The Lurking Fear (1922)

The Rats in the Walls (1923)

The Unnamable (1923)

The Festival (1923)

The Shunned House (1924)

The Horror at Red Hook (1925)

He (1925)

In the Vault (1925)

The Descendant (1926)

Cool Air (1926)

The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

Pickman’s Model (1926)

The Silver Key (1926)

The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)

The Colour Out of Space (1927)

The Very Old Folk (1927)

The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)

The History of the Necronomicon (1927)

Ibid (1928)

The Dunwich Horror (1928)

The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)

At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)

The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)

The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)

The Evil Clergyman (1933)

The Book (1933)

The Shadow out of Time (1934)

The Haunter of the Dark (1935)