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• Read “History of the Necronomicon”.

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• Brown University holds the autograph manuscript of “History of the Necronomicon” 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.

• A History of the Necronomicon. Oakman, AL: Wilson H. Shepherd (The Rebel Press), November 1937. 2–4.
• Miscellaneous Writings. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1995. [52]–53.
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. London, UK: Creation Oneiros, 2008. 173–175.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008. [621]–622.
• The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2010. 267–269.
• Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. London, UK: Gollancz, 2011. 1–3.
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011. [621]–622.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2013. 86–87.
• The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. 813–817.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (slipcased). New York, NY: Race Point Publishing, 2014. 672–673.
• Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 2: 1926–1930. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 2015. 405–409.
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (collectible edition). New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2015. 86–87.
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. New York, NY: Chartwell Books, 2016. 672–673.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2016. [567]–568.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing, 2017. [222]–224.
• Cthulhu Mythos Tales. San Diego, CA: Canterbury Classics, 2017. 88–89.
• The H. P. Lovecraft Experience. San Rafael, CA: Weldon Owen, 2025. II: 148–149.