The Opener of the Way

No book-club edition is documented, and Arkham never reprinted the title, so there is no later Arkham printing to confuse with the first. The reissues to know are the Spearman 1974 British hardcover — black cloth with gilt spine titling and the same 309-page collation, externally close enough to the Arkham book that the title page must be read — the Panther paperbacks of 1976, an Italian translation of 1991 with the stories reordered, and the 1994 omnibus The Early Fears, which absorbs the contents without Bloch's introduction. Facsimile jackets for Arkham House titles are sold openly by reproduction specialists.