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Images

• Brown University holds the typed manuscript of “The Festival” 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.

• Weird Tales vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1925): 169–174.
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, February 1971. 95–104.
• The Tomb and Other Tales. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, April 1973. [18]–27.
• Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1986]. [208]–216.
• The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness. New York, NY: Del Rey, October 1996. 148–155.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. New York, NY: Penguin, [October] 1999. 109–118.
• Shadows of Death: Terrifying Tales. New York, NY: Del Rey, 2005. 74–83.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [262]–269.
• The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010. 2: 2–7.
• The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2010. 158–166.
• Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. London, UK: Gollancz, 2011. 172–180.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [262]–269.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (deluxe edition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2011. 109–118.
• Crawling Chaos – Selected Weird Fiction, Volume One: 1917–1927. London, UK: Creation Oneiros, 2012. 90–97.
• The Lovecraft Library, Volume 2: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Mythos Tales. New York, NY: IDW Publishing, June 2012. 147–159.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2013. 28–35.
• The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. 103–113.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 281–288.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 1: 1905–1925. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 406–417.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2015. 28–35.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 281–288.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [237]–243.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [111]–120.
• Cthulhu Mythos Tales. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 28–35.
• Tales of Horror. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 103–110.
• The Festival (and Other Abnormalities). Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2017. 115–129.
• Christmas with H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Helios House Press, 2023. 31–39.