The Complete Works of Lovecraft eBook Now in PDF
August 1st, 2011 · 32 CommentsA while back, I released a complete works of H.P. Lovecraft eBook in EPUB and Kindle formats. While that works for most people, some had asked for a PDF copy for their computers or other devices. Creating the PDF wasn’t a priority (the stories are all available online and the two version I’ve created can be read on nearly every device, including computers), but it was still something I wanted to get around to. So last weekend, I got it put together.
You can download the PDF here. I’ve set it as a download vs. opening in a browser because it’s a large enough file that it may slow down your browser while loading. Should you want it in your browser or need to download it by right-clicking and saving the link for some reason, try this link instead. The text is the same as the other ebooks. It has a linked table of contents and “Return to Table of Contents” links following each story.
If you have an e-Reader or want to read it on your smartphone, I strongly recommend downloading the EPUB or the MOBI versions instead. The formatting looks fine on a computer and would probably look fine on a tablet, but PDFs simply don’t look as good on e-Readers/phones as EPUBs/MOBIs do. Since the file is about 6x as large as the other ebooks, this also puts more strain on my server. I’m hoping that won’t be an issue—otherwise I’ll have to host the download elsewhere.
As with the other eBook, this is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) (a formalization of the request I initially made, merely putting it into legal terms). The book may be redistributed, torn apart, revised, etc, but please do not sell it. Uploading on your own site for download is fine. If you choose to share or redistribute the book, please give credit to CthulhuChick.com. Basically, you can do anything with it but sell it.
Hope you enjoy!
August 1st, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Thanks for the post – put it on my Android, finally a chance to read the original.
August 1st, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Bow.
Many thanks.
August 2nd, 2011 at 1:42 am
[...] Chick has just released her recent excellent Kindle comporiblation of the Complete Stories of Lovecraft as an 8Mb PDF file. [...]
August 2nd, 2011 at 1:56 pm
[...] Nu har Lovecrafts samtliga verk släppts, gratis, i E-version. [...]
August 19th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
such a big fan of Lovecraft!
my PC, my Nook, and I thank you!
August 22nd, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Cool. Any chance of the collaborations and “revisions” being added in the future?
August 24th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Thanks for putting the ebook together. Bought it at Amazon in the hope that you get at least a little bit of a cut from the sale price.
August 26th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
I have tried downloading the MOBI version onto my kindle but it will not recognise it. I also downloaded onto my comp & tried to rtransfer but ditto. Any suggestions please?
Ruth: As I said in my e-mail response, the MOBI file is a zip and therefore must be unzipped before the whole folder is transferred (or just the .mobi file in the folder is transferred) to your Kindle. The Kindle cannot handle .zip files on its own.
September 2nd, 2011 at 12:00 pm
My netbook and I thank you!
September 11th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Thank you very much for sharing the PDFs. I’m going to send a link to your article to a good friend who’s a huge Lovecraft fan. I’m sure she’ll be thrilled! Hope she hasn’t found out about it yet. Thanks again!
September 28th, 2011 at 1:31 am
I wholesomely bestow upon your humble servitude to the masses of Cthulhu dreamers, one including myself. Thank you!
October 30th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
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November 8th, 2011 at 4:32 am
This is awesome, thanks!
I prefer justified lines, so I modified your epub. I post it here in case it’s useful to anyone else: http://www.mediafire.com/?fc7o1j7l604lt68
December 9th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Thank you. What’s that nook? Oh my nook says thanks too.
December 30th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Hi I just wanted to say this is great work and thank you very much for putting in this effort I have been wanting to start reading some H.P. Lovecraft recently as I have never touched any of his work and have just been hearing and seeing a lot of things about Cthulhu, I will be uploading this to my e-reader soon any suggestions on where is the best and most popular story to start from? Once again thanks!
January 12th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Hello there!
I just wanted to thank you for your work in collecting and sharing Lovecraft’s writings! I’ve just now uploaded it to my Kindle and it makes me very happy to be in possession of this ebook in addition to my German, physical books. I always wanted to read the original versions of his stories – now I have the opportunity.
Again, my sincere thanks!
January 13th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Just purchased the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft you have on Amazon. You’ve done a superb job with it. Thank you for taking the time to do it right. I know I could have gotten it here for free , but I felt your hard word deserved it.
Thanks,
Rick
January 21st, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Thank you so much for all of your efforts in sharing these great works. Really enjoying reading them on my kindle touch
You are in our thoughts and prayers for complete healing.
February 6th, 2012 at 10:42 am
Thank you for uploading this! I used to have a copy on my computer, but it was lost after a hard drive failure. It’s nice to finally have this back on my computer!
February 8th, 2012 at 4:00 am
You have my crawling chaotic thanks
February 8th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
This is amazing, thank you so much.
February 11th, 2012 at 6:08 pm
Just wanted to say thanks for putting together the eBook format of Lovecraft. I’ve been going through it on my Kindle over the past couple weeks, and am really enjoying it. Not sure how I managed to avoid reading Lovecraft all this time, but I’m making up for it now.
BTW I ran across your collection through your listing on Amazon, so good idea putting it there.
February 12th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
OMG! Thank you so much!
I wanted to start reading this series for a long time now but i had no idea i could get it all for free.
I love you ^.^
February 25th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Thanks! I’ve recently started reading everything about Cthulhu as well as playing the RPG (call of cthulhu). To bad thy don’t make movies about Cthulhu.
February 28th, 2012 at 12:11 am
Thank you! I had never read any Lovecraft before, but have always wanted to. So far, I am enjoy his works very much. Being able to do so on my Kindle is especially nice.
You did a wonderful job putting it together. So many PDF/MOBI files are rife with errors from scanning and OCR. So far yours has been flawless. I really appreciate the time you must have spent making it so.
PS – I love the Cthulhu crafts. I will be sure to tell all my friends!
March 20th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Fantastic as this is, how can you call it complete without Fungi from Yuggoth, or any of his other poems?
March 20th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Hi there, are you able to recommend any good cheap pdfhosting sites? Best of luck
March 21st, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Thanks isn’t enough, but it is all I have to offer.
March 30th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Hi — I’ve been wanting to read Lovecraft for a while now, so I wanted to say “thanks” for putting together the ebook so nicely. Too many public domain books are slapped together and sold on Amazon for a quick buck — it’s nice to see that you took the time to make a quality product.
I’ll probably download the free copies from here so I don’t have the DRM, but I paid for it on Amazon so you’ll get a bit of $. Thanks again!
Also — any plans to do the remainder of his stuff — the collaborations? Not sure I’ll get that far — I have yet to see if I’ll like Lovecraft or not
— but it’s nice to know for down the road.
March 31st, 2012 at 12:53 am
I just wanted to say thanks a lot for this freebie! I’ve never read any Lovecraft before, but have been aware of him for a good few years thanks to a couple of stories by my favourite writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who acknowledged a debt to him. I’ve just downloaded the Kindle version after finding it whilst browsing Amazon’s store, and am looking forward to it!
April 10th, 2012 at 11:51 am
Thank you for putting these together; it is very convenient to have these stories in a form I can read on my phone. Hope you get some kind of payout from Amazon as that’s where bought the collection.
April 15th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Waaaay Cool! Something more easy to read on the way, instead of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
Thanks!