This is the chronological word count list of Lovecraft's solo fiction with publication (or written if unpublished during his lifetime) dates. [1]
| Title
|
Word count
|
Year
|
| The Little Glass Bottle
|
457
|
1897
|
| The Secret Cave
|
563
|
1898
|
| The Mystery of the Grave-Yard
|
1,276
|
1898
|
| The Mysterious Ship
|
779
|
1902
|
| The Beast in the Cave
|
2,479
|
1905
|
| The Alchemist
|
3,681
|
1908
|
| The Tomb
|
4,160
|
1917
|
| Dagon
|
2,216
|
1917
|
| A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
|
2,039
|
1917
|
| Sweet Ermengarde
|
2,697
|
1917
|
| Polaris
|
1,516
|
1918
|
| Beyond the Wall of Sleep
|
4,316
|
1919
|
| Memory
|
353
|
1919
|
| Old Bugs
|
2,982
|
1919
|
| The Transition of Juan Romero
|
2,706
|
1919
|
| The White Ship
|
2,530
|
1919
|
| The Doom that Came to Sarnath
|
2,695
|
1919
|
| The Statement of Randolph Carter
|
2,469
|
1919
|
| The Terrible Old Man
|
1,142
|
1920
|
| The Tree
|
1,628
|
1920
|
| The Cats of Ulthar
|
1,342
|
1920
|
| The Temple
|
5,383
|
1920
|
| Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
|
3,679
|
1920
|
| The Street
|
2,229
|
1920
|
| Celephais
|
2,517
|
1920
|
| From Beyond
|
3,040
|
1920
|
| Nyarlathotep
|
1,149
|
1920
|
| The Picture in the House
|
3,339
|
1920
|
| Ex Oblivione
|
698
|
1920/1921
|
| The Nameless City
|
5,025
|
1921
|
| The Quest of Iranon
|
2,768
|
1921
|
| The Moon-Bog
|
3,415
|
1921
|
| The Outsider
|
2,595
|
1921
|
| The Other Gods
|
2,030
|
1921
|
| The Music of Erich Zann
|
3,451
|
1921
|
| Herbert West--Reanimator
|
11,998
|
1921
|
| Hypnos
|
2,810
|
1922
|
| What the Moon Brings
|
722
|
1922
|
| Azathoth
|
476
|
1922
|
| The Hound
|
2,984
|
1922
|
| The Lurking Fear
|
8,164
|
1922
|
| The Rats in the Walls
|
7,974
|
1923
|
| The Unnamable
|
2,945
|
1923
|
| The Festival
|
3,659
|
1923
|
| The Shunned House
|
10,742
|
1923
|
| The Horror at Red Hook
|
8,331
|
1925
|
| He
|
4,262
|
1925
|
| In the Vault
|
3,409
|
1925
|
| The Descendant
|
1,497
|
1926
|
| Cool Air
|
3,413
|
1926
|
| The Call of Cthulhu
|
11,905
|
1926
|
| Pickman's Model
|
5,513
|
1926
|
| The Silver Key
|
4,983
|
1926
|
| The Strange High House in the Mist
|
3,765
|
1926
|
| The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
|
42,589
|
1927
|
| The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
|
51,112
|
1927
|
| The Colour Out of Space
|
12,457
|
1927
|
| The Very Old Folk
|
2,712
|
1927
|
| The Thing in the Moonlight
|
1,212
|
1927
|
| History of the Necronomicon
|
698
|
1927
|
| The Dunwich Horror
|
17,524
|
1928
|
| The Whisperer in Darkness
|
26,624
|
1930
|
| At the Mountains of Madness
|
40,881
|
1931
|
| The Shadow Over Innsmouth
|
27,026
|
1931
|
| The Dreams in the Witch House
|
14,789
|
1932
|
| The Thing on the Doorstep
|
10,954
|
1933
|
| The Evil Clergyman
|
1,690
|
1933
|
| The Book
|
1,166
|
1933
|
| The Shadow Out of Time
|
25,323
|
1934
|
| The Haunter of the Dark
|
9,320
|
1935
|
Total word count: 470,973
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