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Publication History

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• Weird Tales vol. 7, no. 4 (April 1926): 449–453.
• The Lurking Fear and Other Stories. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, April 1973. 107–113.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, October 1982. 37–41.
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [December 1984]. [46]–52.
• Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997. 1–6.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [October] 1999. 43–49.
• Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror. New York, NY: Del Rey Books, January 2003. 145–151.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: Library of America, [February] 2005. 8–14.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Gollancz, 2008. 141–147.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [164]–169.
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Weird Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009. 12–18.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 2: 43–47.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [164]–169.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (deluxe edition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2011. 43–49.
• Crawling Chaos – Selected Weird Fiction, Volume One: 1917–1927. London, UK: Creation Oneiros, 2012. 42–47.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 176–181.
• The Zombie Stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015. 1–6.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 1: 1905–1925. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 265–272.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 176–181.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [143]–147.
• Stories of the Dreamlands. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [82]–89.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 32–37.
• Dagon (and Diverse Monstrosities). Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2017. 51–58.
• The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. 97–105.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. New York, NY: Liveright, 2022. 11–19.