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Publication History
 
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The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982, 225–45.
The Dunwich Horror and Others. Ed. S.T. Joshi. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1984, 276–302.
More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. Ed. S.T. Joshi and Peter Cannon. New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1999, 240–76.
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 2001, 341–365.
H.P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: The Library of America, 2005, 692–718.
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London: Gollancz, 2008, 626–647.
H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008, 919–940.
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Weird Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2009, 241–264.
The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010, 2: 296–314.
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011, 919–940.
The Lovecraft Library, Volume 1: Horror Out of Arkham. New York, NY: IDW Publishing, October 2011, 199–230.
H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror. New York, NY: Fall River Press, 2012, 143–164.
 
The Thing on the Doorstep
 
By H. P. Lovecraft
 
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I.
 
It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than the man I shot in his cell at the Arkham Sanitarium. Later some of my readers will weigh each statement, correlate it with the known facts, and ask themselves how I could have believed otherwise than as I did after facing the evidence of that horror—that thing on the doorstep.
Until then I also saw nothing but madness in the wild tales I have acted on. Even now I ask myself whether I was misled—or whether I am not mad after all. I do not know—but others have strange things to tell of Edward and Asenath Derby, and even the stolid police are at their wits’ ends to account for that last terrible visit. They have tried weakly to concoct a theory of a ghastly jest or warning by discharged servants, yet they know in their hearts that the truth is something infinitely more terrible and incredible.
So I say that I have not murdered Edward Derby. Rather have I avenged him, and in so doing purged the earth of a horror whose survival might have loo ............

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