Electronic Text

• Read “The Book”.

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Images

• Brown University holds the autograph manuscript of “The Book” (“My memories are very confused...”) and has scans of the entire manuscript on the Brown Digital Repository.

Publication History

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

• Leaves no. 2 (1938): 110–112.
• The Tomb and Other Tales. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, April 1973. [184]–186.
• Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1986]. 362–364.
• The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness. New York, NY: Del Rey, October 1996. 34–36.
• Shadows of Death: Terrifying Tales. New York, NY: Del Rey, 2005. 319–322.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [945]–947.
• The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2010. 316–318.
• Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. London, UK: Gollancz, 2011. 393–396.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [945]–947.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 1018–1020.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 3: 1931–1937. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 358–361.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 1018–1020.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [844]–846.
• Macabre Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [149]–152.
• Fungi from Yuggoth: An Annotated Edition. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2017. 235–237.