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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. 18, no. 1 (August 1931): 32–72.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, October 1982. 134–184.
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [December 1984]. [208]–271.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [October] 1999. 200–267.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: Library of America, [February] 2005. 415–480.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Gollancz, 2008. 298–349.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [668]–722.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009. 285–343.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 2: 172–212.
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Works of “Science Fiction”. London, UK: Creation Oneiros, 2011. 99–152.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [668]–722.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (deluxe edition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2011. 200–267.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Tales that Truly Terrify from the Master of Horror. London, UK: Prion, 2012. 145–214.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012. 476–530.
• The Classic Horror Stories. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013. [121]–181.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2013. 140–196.
• The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. 388–456.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 718–775.
• The Whisperer in Darkness. Hornsea, England: PS Publishing, 2015. 3–90.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 2: 1926–1930. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 467–538.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2015. 140–196.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 718–775.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [608]–659.
• Cthulhu Mythos Tales. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 143–202.
• The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [60]–137.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 432–487.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2022. 119–207.