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The Haunter of the Dark

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Haunter of the Dark, The
Type
Short Story
Language
English
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"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53). It was the last written of the author's known stories (other than a few collaborations written after it) and is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The epigraph to the story is the second stanza of Lovecraft's 1917 poem "Nemesis".

The story is a sequel to "The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch. Bloch wrote a third story in the sequence, "The Shadow from the Steeple", in 1950.

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Horror short story first published in Weird Tales, December 1936.

Last modified: 2020-10-11 (revision #31873)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
The Complete Works of H.P. LovecrafteBook??
Tales of the Cthulhu MythosPaperback0-345-42204-X1998-10
The Best of H.P. LovecraftPaperback17817714992014
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LibraryThing Work
7029184
OpenLibrary Work ID
OL30017797W
Wikidata Work ID
Q3818169

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