
H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition (3 vols: 2015)

H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Fiction (Revisions and Collaborations) (Vol. 4: 2017)
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Sunand Tryambak Joshi (b.1958)
H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition,
ed. S. T. Joshi (2015-17)
[Ordered 1/12/19 - Amazon.com]:
H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Fiction, Volume 1 (1905-25): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.
H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Fiction, Volume 2 (1926-1930): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.
H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Fiction, Volume 3 (1931-1936): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.
H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Fiction, Volume 4 (Revisions and Collaborations): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the sage of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote approximately seventy stories over a period of a few decades, from 1905 to 1935. A great many of these would have to be seen as juvenilia: Dunsanian fantasy tales, and short experiments in poetic diction.
This leaves a depressingly short list of late, major stories - albeit including such classics as 'The Shadow over Innsmouth,' 'At the Mountains of Madness' and 'The Shadow Out of Time' - to explain his immense, and apparently still growing, posthumous literary reputation.
I've recounted, in a 2018 blogpost on The Imaginary Museum, my experience of asking a shop assistant in a local mall if they stocked his books way back in the early seventies:
only to be solemnly informed by the shop assistant that not only did they not, but that she doubted the very existence of such books. I recall the slightly roguish expression on her face when I brought out the dread syllables 'Love-craft,' and the distinct impression she gave that I was on some kind of subterranean quest for porno. ... To add insult to injury, I'd seen those very books in that same bookshop only a month or two before. So her denials were, to say the least, somewhat disingenuous.How times have changed!
Back then, the situation seemed pretty self-explanatory: the collected stories were available either as three (or four) rather eccentric-looking hardbacks:

H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror and Others: The Best Supernatural Stories, ed. August Derleth (1963)

H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, ed. August Derleth (1964)

H. P. Lovecraft: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, ed. August Derleth (1965)

Or, alternatively (the form in which I first read them), as six garish paperbacks:

H. P. Lovecraft: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1970)

H. P. Lovecraft: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1970)

H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror (1973)

H. P. Lovecraft: The Lurking Fear and Other Stories (1973)

H. P. Lovecraft: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1973)

H. P. Lovecraft: The Tomb and Other Tales (1974)
Wonderful, aren't they? And irresistible to a mind like mine. There's a pulpy exuberance about them which seemed to say: 'You won't be able to put me down.' And so it proved. I dutifully ticked off the titles on the list of stories included in one of the early volumes until it seemed that I had obtained them all.
And then, as a final flourish, I purchased (and read) L. Sprague de Camp's pioneering biography of the author.
Case closed, it seemed. What more could one find to say about the elusive Mr. Lovecraft? Apart from the usual steadily growing number of ponderous tomes of academic commentary, that is.
Mind you, there is one more unquestionable monument in H. P. Lovecraft studies: his selected letters, edited over a period of a dozen years by his loyal acolytes at Arkham House, a publishing firm started with the express purpose of getting his scattered body of work into print:
Lovecraft, H. P. Selected Letters. Ed. August Derleth, Donald Wandrei & James Turner. 5 vols. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964-76.
- Volume I: 1911-1924 (1964)
- Volume II: 1925-1929 (1968)
- Volume III: 1929-1931 (1971)
- Volume IV: 1932-1934 (1976)
- Volume V: 1934-1937 (1976)
And so it was, and so it seemed likely to remain:
Lovecraft and Lovecraft's work lay hid in night:
God said, Let Joshi be! and all was light.
― Alexander Pope (slightly paraphrased).
Enter Sunand Tryambak Joshi, an Indian-born, American-educated 'scholar interested in weird and fantastic fiction.'
As he himself puts in the autobiography included on his author's website:
At the age of thirteen I discovered the work of H. P. Lovecraft. Immediately taken with Lovecraft's evocative prose, I began both to learn more about the Providence writer and to engage in writing myself.From an outsider's point of view (rather appropriate to any discussion of Lovecraft, I guess, given the fame of his story of that name), Lovecraft studies should really be divided into two eras: BJ and AJ - Before Joshi and After Joshi.
He began modestly enough, with an edition of Lovecraft's Uncollected Prose and Poetry, co-edited with Marc A. Michaud (Necronomicon Press, 1978). This was followed by the more thorough-going anthology H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (Ohio University Press, 1980). After that the floodgates opened.
In 1979 I began editing the scholarly journal Lovecraft Studies for Necronomicon Press. Aside from many editions of Lovecraft's obscurer writings, I have written several scholarly works and compilations for Necronomicon Press, including Lovecraft's Library (1980; rev. ed. Hippocampus Press, 2002), An Index to the Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft (1980; rev. 1991), Selected Papers on Lovecraft (1989), and An Index to the Fiction and Poetry of H. P. Lovecraft (1992). I also edited Sonia Davis' The Private Life of H. P. Lovecraft (1985) and Donald Wandrei's Collected Poems (1988).All this besides his annotated bibliography of H. P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism (Kent State University Press, 1981; rev. ed 2003), and a slew of other books and editions on Lovecraft and his contemporaries - together with other writers such as Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, and Clark Ashton Smith - which continues to this day. You can find a full list of his output here.
From the point of view of my interest in him, though, the really important facts are here:
In 1982 I met James Turner, managing editor of Arkham House, and we discussed the prospect of publishing corrected editions of Lovecraft's stories. I had, since the winter of 1976-77, begun the task of collating Lovecraft's texts with surviving manuscripts and early printed appearances, and had found thousands of errors in the standard editions of his fiction, essays, and poetry. After long negotiations with Arkham House, I finally agreed to edit the new editions, and they have now appeared in four volumes: The Dunwich Horror and Others (1984), At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels (1985), Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1986), and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (1989). These corrected texts have served as the basis for new translations into Italian, German, and Japanese.
One notes a certain diffidence in other editors when they refer to Joshi's bibliographical labours on Lovecraft's text. Both Peter Straub, in his 2005 Library of America edition of Lovecraft's Tales, and Leslie S. Klinger in his two-volume Norton New Annotated Lovecraft, are careful to acknowledge Joshi's aid in establishing an accurate text of the stories they include, but still fall a little way short of according him full academic honours:
Lovecraft: Tales. Ed. Peter Straub. The Library of America, 155. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2005.Why is that? Is it academic jealousy? Resentment of a somewhat bumptious younger rival? Envy at his sheer productivity? It's hard to know, really - especially from this distance. Certainly Joshi has a tendency to claim complete primacy in each field he enters, and his textual labours do seem to have a way of requiring endless revision and readjustment in successive banks of editions of the same basic material.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. Introduction by Alan Moore. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2014.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. Introduction by Victor LaValle. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2019.
Does that sound a little bitchy? There are 65 separate items listed in the section of Joshi's bibliography devoted to 'Editions of Works by H. P. Lovecraft.' These include (besides his four-volume 1984-89 revision of the Arkham House editions of Lovecraft's complete fiction): three volumes of Uncollected Prose and Poetry (1978-82); over 20 volumes of letters to a range of correspondents; many, many individual volumes of poetry, culminating in The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works (2001; rev. ed. 2013); five volumes of Collected Essays (2004-7); and a number of different 'annotated editions' of the Master's work, two from Dell (1997-99), three from Penguin Books (1999-2004), one from Hippocampus Press (2000; rev ed. 2012); and two from Arcane Wisdom (2011-12). It's safe to say he's been a busy boy.
All of this has culminated (for the moment, at least) in his sumptuous 'variorum edition' of Lovecraft's Collected Fiction:
Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition. New York: Hippocampus Press, [August] 2015.Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition, Volume IV (Revisions and Collaborations). New York: Hippocampus Press, [August] 2017.
- Volume I (1905-1925)
- Volume II (1926-1930)
- Volume III (1931-1937)
But what exactly is a 'variorum edition' when it's at home? Here's a page from Joshi's edition - included on his publisher's website - to give you some idea:
Is this overkill? Lovecraft's prose, a bit cack-handed at the best of times, surely doesn't merit this level of attention. 'Variorum' editions, ones which record every textual variant in every published edition pf a work, are usually reserved for major poets (Yeats, Shakespeare, Hardy) rather than prose writers. Not even Dickens or Henry James have hitherto attained this dizzying height ...

Russell K. Anspach & Peter Allt, ed. The Variorum Edition of the Complete Poems of W. B. Yeats (1957)

Horace Howard Furness, ed. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (1871-1913)

James Gibson, ed. The Variorum Edition of the Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy (1979)
Nonsense, yes - did we really need to know that 'lost' in the second sentence of Lovecraft's 'The Beast in the Cave' originally had a dash after it rather than a comma? - but (as my old father was wont to say) magnificent nonsense.
Does it do any harm to record the minutiae of his texts in this way? No, none at all. I suspect that I'm certainly not the only lunatic Lovecraftian to relish the prospect of tracking every bizarre bit of verbiage to its ultimate source ...
So I have to say that, on balance, I approve of S. T. Joshi. Certainly he can get a bit doctrinaire at times, but (as you can see below) the best of his work has greatly advanced the cause of fantastic fiction quite a lot, I'd say - and he's certainly kept Lovecraft and the state of his texts in the public eye!
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Fiction:
- The Little Glass Bottle (1896 / 1959) [Joshi 3]
- The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure (c. 1898–1899 / 1959) [Joshi 3]
- The Mystery of the Grave-Yard (c. 1898–1899 / 1959) [Joshi 3]
- The Mysterious Ship (1902 / 1959) [Joshi 3]
- The Beast in the Cave (Spring 1904–21 April 1905 / 1918) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 1]
- The Alchemist (1908 / 1916) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 1]
- The Tomb (June 1917 / 1922) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 2] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- Dagon (July 1917 / 1919) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 1] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Summer-early Autumn 1917 / 1917) [Joshi 1]
- Polaris (Spring-Summer 1918 / 1920) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Spring 1919 / 1919) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 2] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- Memory (Spring 1919 / 1923) [Joshi 1]
- Old Bugs (c. July 1919 / 1959) [Joshi 1]
- The Transition of Juan Romero (16 September 1919 / 1944) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The White Ship (c. October 1919 / 1919) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 2] [Joshi 1]
- The Doom that Came to Sarnath (3 December 1919 / 1920) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Statement of Randolph Carter (December 1919 / 1920) [Arkham 2] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- The Street (late 1919 / 1920) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 1]
- The Terrible Old Man (28 January 1920 / 1921) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Cats of Ulthar (15 June 1920 / 1920) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Tree (January-June 1920 / 1921) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1]
- Celephaïs (early November 1920 / 1922) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 1] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- From Beyond (16 November 1920 / 1934) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Temple (c. June-November 1920 / 1925) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 2] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- Nyarlathotep (c. November 1920 / 1920) [Penguin 1] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- The Picture in the House (12 December 1920 / 1921) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family [aka "The White Ape"] (Autumn 1920 / 1921) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 1] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Nameless City (January 1921 / 1921) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- The Quest of Iranon (28 February 1921 / 1935) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 2] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Moon-Bog (March 10, 1921 / 1926) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1]
- Ex Oblivione (1920–March 1921 / 1921) [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Other Gods (14 August 1921 / 1933) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Outsider (Spring-Summer 1921 / 1926) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Music of Erich Zann (December 1921 / 1922) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 2] [LoA] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- Sweet Ermengarde (c. 1919–21 / 1943) [Joshi 1]
- Hypnos (March 1922 / 1923) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1]
- What the Moon Brings (5 June 1922 / 1923) [Joshi 1]
- Azathoth [fragment] (June 1922 / 1938) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 1]
- Herbert West – Reanimator (October 1921–June 1922 / 1922) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- The Hound (October 1922 / 1924) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 1] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- The Lurking Fear (November 1922 / 1923) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [LoA] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Rats in the Walls (August-September 1923 / 1924) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Unnamable (September 1923 / 1925) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- The Festival (October 1923 / 1925) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 1] [Norton 1] [Joshi 1]
- The Shunned House (October 1924 / 1937) [Arkham 2] [Penguin 3] [LoA] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Horror at Red Hook (1-2 August 1925 / 1927) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [LoA] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- He (11 August 1925 / 1926) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- In the Vault (18 September 1925 / 1925) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 1]
- Cool Air (February 1926 / 1928) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Joshi 2] [Norton 2]
- The Call of Cthulhu (August-September 1926 / Feb 1928) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 2]
- Pickman's Model (September 1926 / 1927) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 2] [LoA] [Joshi 2] [Norton 2]
- The Strange High House in the Mist (9 November 1926 / 1931) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 2] [Norton 2]
- The Silver Key (November 1926 / 1929) [Arkham 2] [Penguin 3] [Norton 1] [Joshi 2]
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (October 1926-22 January 1927 / 1943) [Arkham 2] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 2] [Norton 2]
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (January-March 1, 1927 / 1941) [Arkham 2] [Penguin 2] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 2]
- The Colour Out of Space (March 1927 / 1927) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 2]
- The Descendant [fragment] (early 1927 / 1938) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 2]
- The Very Old Folk [letter extract] (3 November 1927 / 1940) [Joshi 3]
- History of the Necronomicon [sketch] (Autumn 1927 / 1938) [Joshi 2]
- The Dunwich Horror (August 1928 / 1929) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 2] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 2]
- Ibid (Summer 1928 / 1938) [Joshi 2]
- The Whisperer in Darkness (24 February-September 26, 1930 / 1931) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 2]
- At the Mountains of Madness (24 February-March 22, 1931 / 1936) [Arkham 2] [Penguin 2] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 3]
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (November-December 1931 / 1936) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 3]
- The Dreams in the Witch House (Feb 1932 / 1933) [Arkham 2] [Penguin 3] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 3]
- The Thing on the Doorstep (21-24 Aug 1933 / 1937) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 2] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 3]
- The Book [fragment] (c. Oct 1933 / 1938) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 3]
- The Evil Clergyman [letter extract] (Autumn 1933 / 1939) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 3]
- The Shadow Out of Time (10 Nov 1934- February 22, 1935 / 1936) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 3] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 3]
- The Haunter of the Dark (5-9 Nov 1935 / 1936) [Arkham 1] [Penguin 1] [LoA] [Norton 1] [Joshi 3]
- The Shunned House (1928)
- Shadow over Innsmouth (1936)
- The Outsider and Others (1939)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943)
- The Dunwich Horror and Others (1963) [Arkham 1]
- In the Vault (1925)
- Pickman's Model (1926)
- The Rats in the Walls (1923)
- The Outsider (1921)
- The Colour Out of Space (1927)
- The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
- The Picture in the House (1920)
- The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- The Dunwich Horror (1928)
- Cool Air (1926)
- The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
- The Terrible Old Man (1920)
- The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)
- The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935)
- The Dunwich Horror and Others: The Best Supernatural Stories. Ed. August Derleth. 1963. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1973.
- The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales. 1964. London: Panther, 1970.
- The Lurking Fear and Other Stories. 1964. London: Panther, 1973.
- At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels (1964) [Arkham 2]
- At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
- The Shunned House (1924)
- The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
- The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)
- The Silver Key (1926)
- [with Edgar Hoffmann Price] Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932–1933)
- At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels. Ed. August Derleth. 1964. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975.
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. 1966. London: Panther, 1970.
- At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror. 1966. London: Panther, 1973.
- Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1965) [Arkham 3]
- Dagon (1917)
- The Tomb (1917)
- Polaris (1918)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
- The Doom that Came to Sarnath (1919)
- The White Ship (1919)
- Arthur Jermyn (1920)
- The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
- Celephaïs (1920)
- From Beyond (1920)
- The Temple (1920)
- The Tree (1920)
- The Moon-Bog (1921)
- The Nameless City (1921)
- The Other Gods (1921)
- The Quest of Iranon (1921)
- Herbert West – Reanimator (1921–1922)
- The Hound (1922)
- Hypnos (1922)
- The Lurking Fear (1922)
- The Festival (1923)
- The Unnamable (1923)
- [with Harry Houdini] Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (1924)
- He (1925)
- The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
- The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
- [with Kenneth Sterling] In the Walls of Eryx (1936)
- The Evil Clergyman (1933) Early Tales
- The Beast in the Cave (1904–1905)
- The Alchemist (1908)
- [with Anna Helen Crofts] Poetry and the Gods (1920)
- The Street (1919)
- The Transition of Juan Romero (1919) Fragments
- Azathoth (1922)
- The Descendant (1927)
- The Book (1933)
- [with J. Chapman Miske] The Thing in the Moonlight (November 1927 / 1941) Essay
- Supernatural Horror in Literature (1925-27)
- Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Ed. August Derleth. 1965. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975.
- Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. 1967. London: Panther, 1973.
- The Tomb and Other Tales. 1967. London: Panther, 1974.
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999) [Penguin 1]
- Dagon (1917)
- The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
- Celephaïs (1920)
- Nyarlathotep (1920)
- The Picture in the House (1920)
- The Outsider (1921)
- Herbert West – Reanimator (1921–1922)
- The Hound (1922)
- The Rats in the Walls (1923)
- The Festival (1923)
- He (1925)
- Cool Air (1926)
- The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- The Colour Out of Space (1927)
- The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 1999. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. London: Penguin, 2011.
- The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001) [Penguin 2]
- The Tomb (1917)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
- The White Ship (1919)
- The Temple (1920)
- The Quest of Iranon (1921)
- The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
- [with Harry Houdini] Under the Pyramids (1924)
- Pickman's Model (1926)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
- The Dunwich Horror (1928)
- At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
- The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
- The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 2001. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2002.
- The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories (2005) [Penguin 3]
- Polaris (1918)
- The Doom that Came to Sarnath (1919)
- The Terrible Old Man (1920)
- The Tree (1920)
- The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
- From Beyond (1920)
- The Nameless City (1921)
- The Moon-Bog (1921)
- The Other Gods (1921)
- Hypnos (1922)
- The Lurking Fear (1922)
- The Unnamable (1923)
- The Shunned House (1924)
- The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
- In the Vault (1925)
- The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926-1927)
- The Silver Key (1926)
- [with Edgar Hoffmann Price] Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932–1933)
- The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
- The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935)
- The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. Ed. S. T. Joshi. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2005.
- Lovecraft: Tales. Library of America, 155 (2005) [LoA]
- The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
- The Outsider (1921)
- The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
- Herbert West – Reanimator (1921–1922)
- The Lurking Fear (1922)
- The Rats in the Walls (1923)
- The Shunned House (1924)
- The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
- He (1925)
- Cool Air (1926)
- The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- Pickman's Model (1926)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
- The Colour Out of Space (1927)
- The Dunwich Horror (1928)
- The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
- At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)
- The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
- The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
- The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
- Lovecraft: Tales. Ed. Peter Straub. The Library of America, 155. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2005.
- The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft (2014) [Norton 1]
- Dagon (1917)
- The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
- Nyarlathotep (1920)
- The Picture in the House (1920)
- Herbert West: Reanimator (1921–1922)
- The Nameless City (1921)
- The Hound (1922)
- The Festival (1923)
- The Unnamable (1923)
- The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- The Silver Key (1926)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
- The Colour Out of Space (1927)
- The Dunwich Horror (1928)
- The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
- At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)
- The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
- The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
- The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
- The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. Introduction by Alan Moore. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2014.
- Collected Fiction, Volume 1 (1905-25) (2015) [Joshi 1]
- The Beast in the Cave (1904–1905)
- The Alchemist (1908)
- The Tomb (1917)
- Dagon (1917)
- A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917)
- Polaris (1918)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
- Memory (1919)
- Old Bugs (1919)
- The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
- The White Ship (1919)
- The Street (1919)
- The Doom that Came to Sarnath (1919)
- The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
- The Terrible Old Man (1920)
- The Tree (1920)
- The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
- The Temple (1920)
- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
- Celephaïs (1920)
- From Beyond (1920)
- Nyarlathotep (1920)
- The Picture in the House (1920)
- Ex Oblivione (1920–1921)
- Sweet Ermengarde; or, The Heart of a Country Girl (1919–21)
- The Nameless City (1921)
- The Quest of Iranon (1921)
- The Moon-Bog (1921)
- The Outsider (1921)
- The Other Gods (1921)
- The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
- Herbert West – Reanimator (1921–1922)
- Hypnos (1922)
- What the Moon Brings (1922)
- Azathoth (1922)
- The Hound (1922)
- The Lurking Fear (1922)
- The Rats in the Walls (1923)
- The Unnamable (1923)
- The Festival (1923)
- [with Harry Houdini] Under the Pyramids (1924)
- The Shunned House (1924)
- The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
- He (1925)
- In the Vault (1925)
- Collected Fiction, Volume 1 (1905-25): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.
- Collected Fiction, Volume 2 (1926-1930) (2015) [Joshi 2]
- Cool Air (1926)
- The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- Pickman's Model (1926)
- The Silver Key (1926)
- The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926-1927)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
- The Colour Out of Space (1927)
- The Descendant (1927)
- History of the Necronomicon (1927)
- Ibid (1928)
- The Dunwich Horror (1928)
- The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
- Collected Fiction, Volume 2 (1926-1930): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.
- Collected Fiction, Volume 3 (1931-1936) (2015) [Joshi 3]
- At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)
- The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
- [with Edgar Hoffmann Price] Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932–1933)
- The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
- The Book (1933)
- The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1935) Juvenilia
- The Little Glass Bottle (1896)
- The Secret Cave (1898–1899)
- The Mystery of the Grave-Yard (1898–1899)
- The Mysterious Ship [short version] (1902)
- The Mysterious Ship [long version] (1902) Appendix
- The Very Old Folk (1927)
- Discarded Draft of "The Shadow over Innsmouth" (1931)
- The Evil Clergyman (1933)
- [Cigarette Characterizations] (1934)
- Of Evill Sorceries done in New England, of Daemons in No Humane Shape (c. mid-1930s)
- Collected Fiction, Volume 3 (1931-1936): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.
- The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (2019) [Norton 2]
- The Tomb (1917)
- Polaris (1918)
- The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
- The Doom that Came to Sarnath (1919)
- The Terrible Old Man (1920)
- The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
- The Temple (1920)
- Celephaïs (1920)
- From Beyond (1920)
- Ex Oblivione (1920–1921)
- The Quest of Iranon (1921)
- The Outsider (1921)
- The Other Gods (1921)
- The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
- The Lurking Fear (1922)
- The Shadow on the Chimney
- A Passer in the Storm
- What the Red Glare Meant
- The Horror in the Eyes
- The Rats in the Walls (1923)
- [with Harry Houdini] Under the Pyramids (1924)
- The Shunned House (1924)
- The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
- He (1925)
- Cool Air (1926)
- The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
- Pickman's Model (1926)
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926-27)
- The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. Introduction by Victor LaValle. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2019.
- The Green Meadow [Winifred V. Jackson] (c.1918–1919 / 1927) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- The Loved Dead [C. M. Eddy Jr.] (1919 / 1924) [Arkham 4]
- Poetry and the Gods [Anna Helen Crofts] (c.Summer 1920 / 1920) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 4]
- The Crawling Chaos [Winifred V. Jackson] (c.Dec 1920 / 1921) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- The Horror at Martin's Beach, or The Invisible Monster [Sonia H. Greene] (June 1922 / 1923) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Four O'Clock [Sonia H. Greene] (1922 / 1949) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Ashes [C. M. Eddy Jr.] (1923 / 1924)
- Vine Terror [Howard Wandrei] (1923 / 1934)
- Imprisoned with the Pharaohs or Under the Pyramids [Harry Houdini] (February 1924 / 1924) [Arkham 3] [Penguin 2] [Joshi 1] [Norton 2]
- The Ghost-Eater [C. M. Eddy Jr.] (April 1924) [Arkham 4]
- The Red Brain [Donald Wandrei] (1924 / 1927)
- The Werewolf of Ponkert [H. Warner Munn] (1924 / 1925)
- Deaf, Dumb and Blind [C. M. Eddy Jr.] (April 1925) [Arkham 4]
- Two Black Bottles [Wilfred Blanch Talman] (June-October 1926 / 1927) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- The Last Test [Adolphe de Castro] (c.October-November 1927 / 1928) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- The Thing in the Moonlight [J. Chapman Miske] (November 1927 / 1941) [Arkham 3]
- The Curse of Yig [Zealia Bishop] (Spring 1928 / 1929) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- The Electric Executioner [Adolphe de Castro] (July 1929 / 1930) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Something from above [Donald Wandrei] (1929 / 1930)
- The Mound [Zealia Bishop] (c.Dec 1929–Jan 1930 / 1940) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Medusa's Coil [Zealia Bishop] (c.May-Aug 1930 / 1939) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Bothon [Henry S. Whitehead] (1930 / 1946)
- The Trap [Henry S. Whitehead] (c.Summer 1931 / 1932) [Joshi 4]
- The Man of Stone [Hazel Heald] (Summer 1932 / 1932) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Winged Death [Hazel Heald] (c.Summer 1932 / 1934) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- The Horror in the Museum [Hazel Heald] (October 1932 / 1933) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key [Edgar Hoffmann Price] (October 1932–April 1933 / 1934) [Arkham 2] [Penguin 3] [Joshi 3]
- Out of the Aeons [Hazel Heald] (c.August 1933 / 1935) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- The Horror in the Burying-Ground [Hazel Heald] (c.1933–1934 / 1937) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- The Slaying of the Monster [R. H. Barlow] (1933 / 1933) [Joshi 4]
- The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast [R. H. Barlow] (1933 / 1933) [Joshi 4]
- The Tree on the Hill [Duane W. Rimel] (May 1934 / 1940) [Joshi 4]
- The Battle that Ended the Century [R. H. Barlow] (June 1934 / 1934) [Joshi 4]
- The Sorcery of Aphlar [Duane W. Rimel] (1934 / 1934) [Joshi 4]
- The Black Lotus [Robert Bloch] (1934 / 1935)
- Till A' the Seas [R. H. Barlow] (January 1935 / 1935) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Collapsing Cosmoses [R. H. Barlow] (June 1935 / 1938) [Joshi 4]
- The Challenge from Beyond [C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard & Frank Belknap Long] (August 1935 / 1935) [Joshi 4]
- The Disinterment [Duane W. Rimel] (September 1935 / 1937) [Joshi 4]
- The Diary of Alonzo Typer [William Lumley] (October 1935 / 1938) [Arkham 4] [Joshi 4]
- Satan's Servants [Robert Bloch] (1935 / 1949)
- In the Walls of Eryx [Kenneth Sterling] (Jan 1936 / 1939) [Arkham 3] [Joshi 4]
- The Night Ocean [R. H. Barlow] (Summer 1936 / 1939) [Joshi 4]
- The Salem Horror [Henry Kuttner] (1936 / 1937)
- The Lurker at the Threshold [August Derleth] (1945) [Derleth 1]
- The Survivor [August Derleth] (1954) [Derleth 2]
- The Ancestor [August Derleth] (1957) [Derleth 2]
- The Gable Window [August Derleth] (1957) [Derleth 2]
- The Lamp of Alhazred [August Derleth] (1957) [Derleth 2]
- The Peabody Heritage [August Derleth] (1957) [Derleth 2]
- The Shadow Out of Space [August Derleth] (1957) [Derleth 2]
- Wentworth's Day [August Derleth] (1957) [Derleth 2]
- The Fisherman of Falcon Point [August Derleth] (1959) [Derleth 2]
- The Shuttered Room [August Derleth] (1959) [Derleth 2]
- Witches' Hollow [August Derleth] (1962)
- The Shadow in the Attic [August Derleth] (1964)
- The Dark Brotherhood [August Derleth] (1966) [Derleth 2]
- The Horror from the Middle Span [August Derleth] (1974)
- Innsmouth Clay [August Derleth] (1974)
- The Watchers Out of Time [August Derleth] (1974)
- [with August Derleth] The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) [Derleth 1]
- [with August Derleth] The Lurker at the Threshold: A Novel of the Macabre. 1945. London: Victor Gollancz, 1968.
- [with August Derleth] The Shadow out of Time (1968) [Derleth 2]
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Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
- In the Vault (1925)
- The Picture in the House (1920)
- Cool Air (1926)
- The Terrible Old Man (1920)
- The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935)
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931) Stories by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth
- The Survivor (1954)
- Wentworth's Day (1957)
- The Peabody Heritage (1957)
- The Gable Window (1957)
- The Ancestor (1957)
- The Shadow Out of Space (1957)
- The Lamp of Alhazred (1957)
- The Fisherman of Falcon Point (1959)
- The Dark Brotherhood (1966)
- The Shuttered Room (1959)
- [with August Derleth] The Shadow out of Time and Other Tales of Horror. London: Victor Gollancz, 1968.
- [with August Derleth & others] Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Ed. August Derleth (1969)
- [with August Derleth & others] Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Ed. August Derleth. 1969. London: Grafton, 1988.
- The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (1970) [Arkham 4]
- The Crawling Chaos [Elizabeth Berkeley] (1920)
- The Green Meadow [Elizabeth Berkeley] (1918–1919)
- Four O'Clock [Sonia Greene] (1922)
- The Invisible Monster [Sonia Greene] (1922)
- The Man of Stone [Hazel Heald] (1932)
- Winged Death [Hazel Heald] (1932)
- The Loved Dead [C. M. Eddy Jr.] (1919)
- Deaf, Dumb and Blind [C. M. Eddy Jr.] (1925)
- The Ghost-Eater [C. M. Eddy Jr.] (1924)
- "Till All the Seas" [Robert H. Barlow] (1935)
- The Horror in the Museum [Hazel Heald] (1932)
- Out of the Eons [Hazel Heald] (1933)
- The Diary of Alonzo Typer [William Lumley] (1935)
- The Horror in the Burying-Ground [Hazel Heald] (1933–1934)
- The Last Test [Adolphe de Castro] (1927)
- The Electric Executioner [Adolphe de Castro] (1929)
- The Curse of Yig [Zealia Bishop] (1928)
- Medusa's Coil [Zealia Bishop] (1930)
- The Mound [Zealia Bishop] (1929)
- Two Black Bottles [Wilfred Blanch Talman] (1926)
- The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions. Ed. August Derleth. 1970. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1976.
- Collected Fiction, Volume 4 (Revisions and Collaborations) (2017) [Joshi 4]
- The Green Meadow [Elizabeth Neville Berkeley & Lewis Theobald, Jnr.] (1918–1919)
- Poetry and the Gods [Anna Helen Crofts & Henry Paget-Lowe] (1920)
- The Crawling Chaos [Elizabeth Berkeley & Lewis Theobald, Jnr.] (1920)
- The Horror at Martin's Beach [Sonia H. Greene] (1922)
- Two Black Bottles [Wilfred Blanch Talman] (1926)
- The Last Test [Adolphe de Castro] (1927)
- The Curse of Yig [Zealia Bishop] (1928)
- The Electric Executioner [Adolphe de Castro] (1929)
- The Mound [Zealia Bishop] (1929–1930)
- Medusa's Coil [Zealia Bishop] (1930)
- The Trap [Henry S. Whitehead] (1931)
- The Man of Stone [Hazel Heald] (1932)
- Winged Death [Hazel Heald] (1932)
- The Horror in the Museum [Hazel Heald] (1932)
- Out of the Aeons [Hazel Heald] (1933)
- The Horror in the Burying-Ground [Hazel Heald] (1933–1934)
- The Slaying of the Monster [R. H. Barlow] (1933)
- The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast [R. H. Barlow] (1933)
- The Tree on the Hill [Duane W. Rimel] (1934)
- The Battle that Ended the Century [with R. H. Barlow] (1934)
- The Disinterment [Duane W. Rimel] (1935)
- Till A' the Seas [R. H. Barlow] (1935)
- Collapsing Cosmoses [with R. H. Barlow] (1935)
- The Challenge from Beyond [C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard & Frank Belknap Long] (1935)
- The Diary of Alonzo Typer [William Lumley] (1935)
- In the Walls of Eryx [with Kenneth Sterling] (1936)
- The Night Ocean [R. H. Barlow] (1936) Appendix
- Four O'Clock [Sonia H. Greene] (1922 / 1949)
- A Sacrifice to Science [Gustav Adolphe Danziger] (1893)
- The Automatic Executioner [Gustav Adolphe Danziger] (1893)
- [Fragment] [J. Vernon Shea] (1933)
- The Sorcery of Aphlar [Duane W. Rimel] (1934)
- The Diary of Alonzo Typer [William Lumley] (1935)
- Collected Fiction, Volume 4 (Revisions and Collaborations): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.
- Marginalia. Ed. August Derleth (1944)
- Something about Cats and Other Pieces. Ed. August Derleth (1949)
- Miscellaneous Writings. Ed. S. T. Joshi (1995)
- Miscellaneous Writings. Ed. S. T. Joshi. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1995.
- Collected Essays: Volume I (Amateur Journalism). Ed. S. T. Joshi (2004)
- Collected Essays: Volume I (Amateur Journalism). Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004.
- Collected Essays: Volume II (Literary Criticism). Ed. S. T. Joshi (2004)
- Collected Essays: Volume II (Literary Criticism). Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004.
- Collected Essays: Volume III (Science). Ed. S. T. Joshi (2005)
- Collected Essays: Volume III (Science). Ed. S. T. Joshi. 2005. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2006.
- Collected Essays: Volume IV (Travel). Ed. S. T. Joshi (2005)
- Collected Essays: Volume IV (Travel). Ed. S. T. Joshi. 2005. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2006.
- Collected Essays: Volume V (Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany). Ed. S. T. Joshi (2006)
- Collected Essays: Volume V (Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany). Ed. S. T. Joshi. 2006. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2007.
- Collected Poems. Ed. Frank Uptapel (1963)
- The Ancient Track. Ed. S. T. Joshi (2001)
- The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft. 2001. Ed. S. T. Joshi. Rev. ed. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2013.
- Selected Letters. Ed. August Derleth, Donald Wandrei & James Turner. 5 vols. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964-76.
- 1911-1924 (1964)
- Selected Letters, Vol. I: 1911-1924. Ed. August Derleth & Donald Wandrei. 5 vols. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964.
- 1925-1929 (1968)
- Selected Letters, Vol. II: 1925-1929. Ed. August Derleth & Donald Wandrei. 5 vols. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1968.
- 1929-1931 (1971)
- Selected Letters, Vol. III: 1929-1931. Ed. August Derleth & Donald Wandrei. 5 vols. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971.
- 1932-1934 (1976)
- Selected Letters, Vol. IV: 1932-1934. Ed. August Derleth & James Turner. 5 vols. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1976.
- 1934-1937 (1976)
- Selected Letters, Vol. V: 1934-1937. Ed. August Derleth & James Turner. 5 vols. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1976.
- 1911-1924 (1964)
- H. P. Lovecraft: Letters. Necronomicon Press, 1990- .
- Letters to Henry Kuttner
- Letters to Richard F. Searight
- Letters to Robert Bloch
- Letters to Samuel Loveman and Vincent Starrett
- Uncollected Letters
- H. P. Lovecraft in the Argosy: Collected Correspondence from the Munsey Magazines
- Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters (2000)
- Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters. Ed. S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz. 2000. Rev. ed. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2019.
- Fritz Leiber and H. P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark. Wildside Press.
- Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei. Night Shade Books.
- Lovecraft Letters Volume 2: Letters from New York. Night Shade Books.
- O Fortunate Floridian: H. P. Lovecraft’s Letters to R. H. Barlow. University of Tampa Press.
- The Spirit of Revision: Lovecraft’s Letters to Zealia Brown Reed Bishop. The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
- H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Letters. Ed. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. Hippocampus Press, 2003-2020.
- Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. 2 vols
- A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. 2 vols
- Letters to James F. Morton
- Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge & Anne Tillery Renshaw
- Letters to Robert Bloch and Others
- Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White
- Letters to F. Lee Baldwin, Duane W. Rimel, and Nils Frome
- Letters to C. L. Moore and Others
- Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. 2 vols
- Letters to Maurice W. Moe and Others
- Letters to Wilfred B. Talman and Helen V. and Genevieve Sully
- Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja
- Letters to Family and Family Friends. 2 vols
- Letters to Alfred Galpin and Others
- Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner and Others
- Letters to E. Hoffmann Price and Richard F. Searight
- Miscellaneous Letters
- Letters to Woodburn Harris and Others
- Letters to Hyman Bradofsky and Others
- de Camp, L. Sprague. Lovecraft: A Biography. 1975. London: New English Library, 1976.
- Joshi, S. T. I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft. 2 vols. 2010-11. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2013.
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