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Publication History

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• Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, No. 6 (September 1927), 557–67.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982, 185–206.
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Ed. S.T. Joshi. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1984, 53–82.
• The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. Ed. S.T. Joshi. New York, NJ: Dell Publishing, 1997, 58–100.
• Tales of H.P. Lovecraft. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997, 77–100.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 1999, 170–99.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: The Library of America, 2005, 340–69.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London: Gollancz, 2008, 166–189.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008, 594–616.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009, 220–45.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011, 594–616.
• The Lovecraft Library, Volume 1: Horror Out of Arkham. New York, NY: IDW Publishing, October 2011, 65–97.
• H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies. New York, NY: Fall River, October 2011, 1–34.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (deluxe edition). New York, NY: Penguin USA, 2011, 170–199.
• Crawling Chaos – Selected Weird Fiction, Volume One: 1917–1927. London: Creation Oneiros, 2012, 216–240.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012, 26–48.
• The Classic Horror Stories. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013, 53–79.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2013, 62–85.