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The Picture in the House

H. P. Lovecraft

First published January 1924
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Notes

Fantastic Worlds ed. by Eric S. Rabkin, states that this did not appear until 1924. However, Miller/Contento (for the appearance in the January 1924 issue of Weird Tales) and Contento1 (for the appearance in The Outsider and Others) both state that this firs appeared in the July 1919 issue of The National Amateur.

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Publications (90)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1924 Cover Weird Tales, January 1924 The Rural Publishing Corp. MAGAZINE 40
March 1937 Cover Weird Tales, March 1937 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 370|370.2
1939 Cover The Outsider and Others Arkham House Collection 127
April 1945 Cover Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft World Publishing Co. Collection 121
September 1945 Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft World Publishing Co. Collection 121
June 1946 Cover Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft World Publishing Co. Collection 121
September 1950 Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft World Publishing Co. Collection 121
1963 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others: The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House Collection 121
June 1964 Cover The Colour Out of Space and Others Lancer Books Collection 36
November 1964 Cover The Lurking Fear and Other Stories Panther Collection 88
1966 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others Arkham House Collection 121
June 1967 Cover The Colour Out of Space and Others Lancer Books Collection 36
May 1968 Cover The Shadow Out of Time and Other Tales of Horror Gollancz Collection
March 1969 Cover The Colour Out of Space and Others Lancer Books Collection 36
1970 Cover The Lurking Fear and Other Stories Panther Collection 88
1970 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others Arkham House Collection 121
1970 Cover The Lurking Fear and Other Stories Panther Collection 88
November 1971 Cover The Colour Out of Space Lancer Books Collection 36
November 1971 Cover The Colour Out of Space Lancer Books Collection 36
August 1972 Cover The Colour Out of Space Lancer Books Collection 36
1973 Cover The Lurking Fear and Other Stories Panther Collection 88
1974 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others Arkham House Collection 121
October 1975 Cover The Colour Out of Space and Others Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp. Collection 36
November 1977 The Shadow Out of Time and Other Tales of Horror Gollancz Collection
May 1978 Cover The Colour Out of Space and Others Jove / HBJ Collection 36
1979 Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 257
May 1979 Cover Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 257
June 1979 Cover Wolf's Complete Book of Terror Clarkson N. Potter Anthology 171
June 1979 Cover Wolf's Complete Book of Terror Clarkson N. Potter Anthology 171
January 1981 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others: The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft Arkham House Collection 121
October 1982 The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 30
1984 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others Arkham House Collection 116
1985 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others Arkham House Collection 116
1985 Cover The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales Panther Collection 372
1986 Cover The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales Grafton Collection 372
1987 Cover The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales Grafton Collection 372
1988 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others Arkham House Collection 116
September 1988 Cover The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 30
1992 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others Arkham House Collection 116
1993 Crawling Chaos Creation Books Collection 35
November 1994 Cover Wolf's Complete Book of Terror Newmarket Press Anthology 141
April 1995 The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 30
1997 Cover Crawling Chaos Creation Books Collection 25
1997 Cover The Dunwich Horror and Others Arkham House Collection 116
August 1999 More Annotated H. P. Lovecraft Dell Collection 11
September 1999 Cover More Annotated H. P. Lovecraft Turtleback Books Collection 11
October 1999 Cover The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Penguin Books (US) Collection 34
July 2002 Cover The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Penguin Books Collection 34
November 2002 Cover The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre Del Rey / Ballantine Collection |3
May 2004 Cover Weird Tales, January 1924 Girasol Collectables Anthology 40
September 2007 Cover Classic Tales of Horror: Volume Two Bloody Books Anthology 215
November 2007 Cover Horror Story Collection 2 LibriVox Anthology |3
2008 Cover The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged Barnes & Noble Books Omnibus 124
January 2008 More Annotated H. P. Lovecraft Dell / SFBC Collection 11
October 2008 Cover Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft LibriVox Collection |16
November 2008 Cover H. P. Lovecraft: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection 579
May 2009 Cover The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales Barnes & Noble Books Collection |6
2010 The Weird Writings of H. P. Lovecraft: Vol 1 Girasol Collectables Collection
September 2010 Cover Dagon and Other Tales of the Macabre Cycle Prohyptikon Publishing Collection
March 2011 Cover The Complete Fiction Barnes & Noble Books Omnibus 124
May 2011 Cover The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales Vintage (UK) Collection
May 2011 Cover The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales Vintage Digital Collection
July 2011 Cover Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre Gollancz Collection
July 2011 Cover Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre Gollancz Collection
July 2011 Cover Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre Gollancz / Orion Collection
September 2011 Cover The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Penguin Books Collection 34
April 2013 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 20 LibriVox Anthology |4
2014 Cover The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales Vintage (UK) Collection
2014 Cover Tales Heritage Illustrated Publishing Collection |15
2014 Cover Complete Collection of H. P. Lovecraft Ageless Reads Omnibus |44
September 2014 Cover The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft Race Point Publishing Omnibus
2016 Cover The Complete Works uncredited Omnibus 84
January 2016 Cover H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Omnibus, Volume I: 1917-1926 Pulp-Lit Productions Collection 137
January 2016 Cover H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Omnibus, Volume I: 1917-1926 Pulp-Lit Productions Collection 137
July 2016 Cover The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft Chartwell Books Omnibus 103
October 2016 Cover The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Penguin Books (US) Collection
February 2017 Cover Lovecraft Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 65
May 2017 Cover H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Benediction Classics Collection 380
May 2017 Cover H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Benediction Classics Collection |42
October 2017 Cover The H. P. Lovecraft Collection Sirius / Arcturus Publishing Omnibus |99
2018 Cover The H. P. Lovecraft Collection Sirius / Arcturus Publishing Omnibus 99
2018 Cover Macabre Stories Sirius / Arcturus Publishing Collection 99
2018 Cover H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus: The Early Years: 1908-1925 Pulp-Lit Productions Collection 187
March 2018 Cover H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus: The Early Years: 1908-1925 Pulp-Lit Productions Collection 187
March 2018 Cover H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus: The Early Years: 1908-1925 Pulp-Lit Productions Collection |187
2019 Cover Weird Tales Pulp Classics on DVD Anthology 40|10301040
2019 Weird Tales (disc 4, part 1) Anthology 370|42903370.2
June 2019 Cover The Complete Weird-Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft: In One Volume Pulp-Lit Productions Omnibus |187
November 2019 Cover H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Benediction Classics Collection 380
March 2020 Cover Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre Gollancz Collection