Electronic Text

• Read “The Terrible Old Man”.

Images

• Brown University holds the autograph manuscript of “The Terrible Old Man” 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.

• The Tryout vol. 7, no. 4 (July 1921): [10–14].
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [December 1984]. [272]–275.
• The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness. New York, NY: Del Rey, October 1996. 80–82.
• Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror. New York, NY: Del Rey Books, January 2003. 43–46.
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [August] 2004. [12]–14.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [81]–83.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009. 9–11.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 2: 54–55.
• Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. London, UK: Gollancz, 2011. 127–130.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [81]–83.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 87–89.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 1: 1905–1925. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 140–144.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 87–89.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [65]–67.
• Macabre Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [62]–65.
• Dagon (and Diverse Monstrosities). Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2017. 13–17.
• The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. 36–39.