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Publication History

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

• Weird Tales vol. 6, no. 3 (September 1925): 329–336, 429–431.
• The Lurking Fear and Other Stories. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, April 1973. 67–80.
• Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1986]. [59]–72.
• The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness. New York, NY: Del Rey, October 1996. 68–79.
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [August] 2001. 27–38.
• Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror. New York, NY: Del Rey Books, January 2003. 204–217.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [91]–101.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 2: 24–32.
• The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2010. 62–73.
• Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. London, UK: Gollancz, 2011. 181–194.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [91]–101.
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (hardcover edition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2013. 31–43.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 110–121.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 1: 1905–1925. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 156–170.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 110–121.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [75]–84.
• Macabre Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [66]–80.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 14–24.
• The Other Gods (and Various Ethereal Effusions). Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2017. 83–98.
• The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. 55–70.