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Publication History

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• Amazing Stories vol. 2, no. 6 (September 1927): 557–567.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, October 1982. 185–206.
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [December 1984]. [53]–82.
• Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997. 77–100.
• The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Dell, August 1997. [58]–100.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [October] 1999. 170–199.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: Library of America, [February] 2005. 340–369.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: 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. 220–245.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [594]–616.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (deluxe edition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2011. 170–199.
• 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 Press, 4 October 2011. 1–34.
• Crawling Chaos – Selected Weird Fiction, Volume One: 1917–1927. London, UK: 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.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 637–661.
• The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation-W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. 310–342.
• The Colour Out of Space. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 2015. 5–40.
• The Colour Out of Space. Hornsea, England: PS Publishing, 2015. 3–42.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 2: 1926–1930. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 367–399.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2015. 62–85.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 637–661.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [539]–560.
• Stories of the Dreamlands. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [147]–178.