Electronic Text

• Read “The Haunter of the Dark”.

Discussion Archives

• Read “The Shadow Over Usenet” Posts via Google Groups.

Images

• A comic adaptation of Lovecraft’s story was featured in the April 1973 issue (Vol. 1, No. 4) of Journey Into Mystery.

Locations

• Blake’s Home
• The Free-Will/Starry Wisdom Church

Publication History

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

• Weird Tales vol. 28, no. 5 (December 1936): 538–553.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, October 1982. 207–224.
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [December 1984]. [92]–115.
• More Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Dell, August 1999. [277]–312.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [October] 1999. 336–360.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: Library of America, [February] 2005. 784–807.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Gollancz, 2008. 607–625.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [999]–1017.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009. 435–456.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 2: 280–295.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [999]–1017.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (deluxe edition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2011. 336–360.
• Crawling Chaos – Selected Weird Fiction, Volume Two: 1928–1935. London, UK: Creation Oneiros, 2012. 221–240.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Tales that Truly Terrify from the Master of Horror. London, UK: Prion, 2012. 463–487.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012. 531–549.
• The Lovecraft Library, Volume 2: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Mythos Tales. New York, NY: IDW Publishing, June 2012. 55–82.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2013. 573–592.
• The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. 779–806.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 1075–1094.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 3: 1931–1937. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 451–477.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2015. 573–592.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 1075–1094.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [896]–913.
• The Haunter of the Dark. Hornsea, England: PS Publishing, October 2016. 61–96.
• Cthulhu Mythos Tales. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 595–615.
• The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [210]–237.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 733–752.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. New York, NY: Liveright, 2022. 359–388.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2022. 85–117.
• The H. P. Lovecraft Experience. San Rafael, CA: Weldon Owen, 2025. II: 560–580.