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Images

• Brown University holds the typed manuscript of “The Lurking Fear” and has scans of the entire typescript on the Brown Digital Repository.

Publication History

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

• Home Brew vol. 2, no. 6 (January, 1923): 4–10; vol. 3, no. 1 (February, 1923): 18–23; vol. 3, no. 2 (March, 1923): 31–37, 44; vol. 3, no. 3 (April, 1923): 35–42.
• The Lurking Fear and Other Stories. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, April 1973. 1–22.
• Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1986]. [179]–199.
• The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness. New York, NY: Del Rey, October 1996. 129–147.
• Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror. New York, NY: Del Rey Books, January 2003. 20–42.
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [August] 2004. [62]–81.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: Library of America, [February] 2005. 55–76.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Gollancz, 2008. 65–82.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [223]–239.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 2: 115–128.
• The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2010. 132–150.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [223]–239.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012. 49–65.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 238–256.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 1: 1905–1925. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 349–373.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 238–256.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [199]–215.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [66]–88.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 70–86.
• Herbert West—Reanimator (and Kindred Night Spawn). Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2017. 67–95.
• The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. 121–149.