Electronic Text

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Discussion Archives

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Images

• First page of Lovecraft’s autograph manuscript, on which may be seen the original title, The Madness Out of Time.
• A page from chapter II, section 6, where Jedediah (Simon) Orne warns Curwen that he should “not call up Any that you can not put downe...”
• A page from chapter III, section 4, where Charles Dexter Ward returns home from abroad.

Locations

• The Providence Athenaeum
• John Hay Library
• The Ward House
• The little white farmhouse
• Prospect Terrace
• The First Baptist Church
• 598 Angell Street, Home of Hazard Weeden
• 10 Barnes Street, Home of Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett

Publication History

The following entries include the first publication of this work and any publications currently in print.

• Weird Tales, 35, No. 9 (May 1941), 8–40; 35, No. 10 (July 1941), 84–121.
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971, 5–127.
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels. Ed. S.T. Joshi. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1985, 107–234.
• The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995, 212–323.
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 2001, 90–205.
• Waking Up Screaming. New York, NY: Del Rey, 1 January 2003, 232–370.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: The Library of America, 2005, 211–339.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London: Gollancz, 2008, 648–749.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008, 490–593.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009, 106–219.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010, 2: 426–98.
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Tampa, FL: University of Tampa Press, 2010, 1–182.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011, 490–593.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Tales that Truly Terrify from the Master of Horror. London, UK: Prion Books, 2012, 489–684.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012, 372–475.