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Innsmouth Clay

H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth

First published 1971
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The narrator relates the facts surrounding the disappearance of his friend Jeffrey Corey, an artist and a distant relative of the Marsh Clan of Innsmouth. Jeffrey's final months were spent in Innsmouth during the fraught winter of 1927-1928, and the narrator's recollections of that time are interspersed with increasingly paranoiac entries from Jeffrey's own diary as he begins to work on a sculpture made with a peculiar clay dredged up from nearby Devil's Reef.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1971 Cover Dark Things Arkham House Anthology 163
1974 Cover The Watchers Out of Time and Others Arkham House Collection 371
November 1975 Cover Night Chills Avon Anthology 103
May 1977 Cover La lampada di Alhazred: serie completa, 2 Fanucci Editore Collection 241
1984 Cover The Watchers Out of Time and Others Arkham House Collection 371
1988 Cover The Watchers Out of Time and Others Arkham House Collection 371
1989 Azatoth Suhrkamp Collection 174
October 1991 Cover The Watchers Out of Time Carroll & Graf Collection 278
1992 Cover The Watchers Out of Time Carroll & Graf Collection 278
March 1992 Cover Howard Phillips Lovecraft 3 Robert Laffont Anthology 928
January 1995 Cover Howard Phillips Lovecraft 3 Robert Laffont Anthology 928
1996 Cover The Watchers Out of Time Carroll & Graf Collection 278
October 2008 Cover The Watchers Out of Time Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 250
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November 2013 Cover Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth Fedogan & Bremer Anthology 46
November 2013 Cover Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth Fedogan & Bremer Anthology 46
January 2015 Cover Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth Titan Books Anthology
January 2015 Cover Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth Titan Books Anthology
September 2016 Cover Howard Phillips Lovecraft 3 Robert Laffont Anthology 928