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Images

• Brown University holds the autograph manuscript of “The Thing on the Doorstep” 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.

• Weird Tales vol. 29, no. 1 (January 1937): 52–70.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, October 1982. 225–245.
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [December 1984]. [276]–302.
• More Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Dell, August 1999. [240]–276.
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [August] 2001. 341–365.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: Library of America, [February] 2005. 692–718.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Gollancz, 2008. 626–647.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [919]–940.
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Weird Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009. 241–264.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 2: 296–314.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [919]–940.
• The Lovecraft Library, Volume 1: Horror Out of Arkham. New York, NY: IDW Publishing, October 2011. 199–230.
• Crawling Chaos – Selected Weird Fiction, Volume Two: 1928–1935. London, UK: Creation Oneiros, 2012. 173–195.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012. 143–164.
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (hardcover edition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2013. 382–408.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2013. 467–488.
• The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. 681–710.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 990–1013.
• The Zombie Stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015. 65–89.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 3: 1931–1937. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 324–357.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2015. 467–488.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 990–1013.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [819]–839.
• The Haunter of the Dark. Hornsea, England: PS Publishing, October 2016. 3–45.
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [195]–224.
• Cthulhu Mythos Tales. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 483–506.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 659–680.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2022. 275–311.