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Publication History

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• Weird Tales vol. 3, no. 3 (March 1924): 25–31.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, October 1982. 15–29.
• The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [December 1984]. [26]–45.
• Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997. 14–29.
• The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Dell, August 1997. [25]–55.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [October] 1999. 89–108.
• H. P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: Library of America, [February] 2005. 77–96.
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Gollancz, 2008. 90–105.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [240]–255.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009. 60–77.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 1: 13–19.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [240]–255.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (deluxe edition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2011. 89–108.
• Crawling Chaos – Selected Weird Fiction, Volume One: 1917–1927. London, UK: Creation Oneiros, 2012. 100–116.
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Tales that Truly Terrify from the Master of Horror. London, UK: Prion, 2012. 45–65.
• H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012. 356–371.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 257–273.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 1: 1905–1925. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 374–396.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 257–273.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [216]–230.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [89]–110.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 87–102.
• The Festival (and Other Abnormalities). Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2017. 157–180.
• The H. P. Lovecraft Cat Book. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 2019. 22–49.
• The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. 150–174.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. New York, NY: Liveright, 2022. 33–63.