Timeline with Lovecraft, Howard and Smith Stories
So I recently started compiling a timeline of the new Titan Comics “Conan the Barbarian” series along with the works of Robert E. Howard. Pretty quickly into the project I decided I would just go ahead and throw the stories of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith into the mix. My argument here being that if I’m making a timeline of the new expanded lore of Howard, why not add in the original? Howard, Lovecraft and Smith actively wrote to each other, sharing ideas and referencing each other in their stories. While not a “shared universe” in the terms we use it nowadays, it really was the foundation for what would come later.
So while labeled the Howardverse, it’s really more or less a timeline for the Big Three of Weird Tales. I used the classic Omnimulti chronology to lock down the exact months/days for HPL's stories, and mapped out the deep time from CAS's Hyperborea all the way to the dying earth of Zothique. Everything is color-coded by author so you can see exactly how the Mythos, the Dream Cycle, and the Hyborian Age line up. Any feedback is appreciated. It’s just for fun, but I figured I’d share it here.