Electronic Text

• Read “The Beast in the Cave”.

Images

• Brown University holds the autograph manuscript of “The Beast in the Cave” 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.

• The Vagrant no. 7 (June 1918): 113–120.
• The Tomb and Other Tales. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, December 1970. [140]–147.
• Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1986]. [322]–328.
• The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness. New York, NY: Del Rey, October 1996. 1–6.
• Shadows of Death: Terrifying Tales. New York, NY: Del Rey, 2005. 276–282.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [1]–5.
• Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. London, UK: Gollancz, 2011. 20–26.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [1]–5.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 1–6.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 1: 1905–1925. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 17–25.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 1–6.