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US only. The Arkham House (Sauk City) 1944 printing is the sole first edition — no UK edition and no original-language issue elsewhere. It is the third of the core Arkham Lovecraft omnibus trio, following The Outsider and Others (Arkham House, 1939) and Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Arkham House, 1943). 'First thus' trap: much of the contents was later redistributed through Arkham's own Lovecraft volumes — notably The Curse of Yig (Arkham House, 1953), which reprints the Bishop revisions first collected here — and those are reprints, not states of this book.