Originally published in the San Francisco Newsletter, December 25, 1886.
Reprinted in:

• The Spawn of Cthulhu, ed. Lin Carter, Ballantine 1971
• The Edge of Never, ed. Robert Hoskins, Fawcett Premier 1973
• Quickie Thrillers, ed. Dr. Arthur Liebman, Pocket Books 1975
• The Fantasy Hall of Fame, ed. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House 1983
• Great Tales of Madness and the Macabre, ed. Charles Ardai, Galahad 1990
• The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories, ed. Richard Dalby, Robinson 1990
• The Hastur Cycle, ed. Robert M. Price, Chaosium 1993
• The Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Richard Dalby, Tiger Books 1994
• The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition, ed. Robert M. Price, Chaosium 1997
• The Colour Out of Space, ed. D. Thin, New York Review Books 2002
• Imaginings: An Anthology of Visionary Literature: Volume One: After the Myths Went Home, ed. Stefan Rudnicki, North Atlantic/Frog 2004