The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' third omnibus edition of works by 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in September 2004 and is still in print.

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories
AuthorH. P. Lovecraft
LanguageEnglish
SeriesPenguin Classics
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, horror
PublisherPenguin Books
Publication date
September 8, 2004
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages480 pp
ISBN978-0142437957
Preceded byThe Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories 

This edition is the third in Penguin Classics' series of paperback collections. It collects the "definitive" editions of Lovecraft's popular stories as edited by S. T. Joshi.

Its companion volumes from Penguin Classics are The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (2001), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001).

Contents

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The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories contains the following tales:

  1. Polaris
  2. The Doom that Came to Sarnath
  3. The Terrible Old Man
  4. The Tree
  5. The Cats of Ulthar
  6. From Beyond
  7. The Nameless City
  8. The Moon-Bog
  9. The Other Gods
  10. Hypnos
  11. The Lurking Fear
  12. The Unnamable
  13. The Shunned House
  14. The Horror at Red Hook
  15. In the Vault
  16. The Strange High House in the Mist
  17. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
  18. The Silver Key
  19. Through the Gates of the Silver Key
  20. The Dreams in the Witch House
  21. The Shadow Out of Time
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All of the stories collected in this edition can also be found at Wikisource. Scholars should note that the texts transcribed on Wikisource may contain errors, or may represent "uncorrected" versions.