| "The Haunter of the Dark" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by H. P. Lovecraft | |
 Title page spread of "The Haunter of the Dark" as it appeared in Weird Tales, December, 1936. Illustration by Virgil Finlay.[1] | |
 Text available at Wikisource | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Weird Tales |
| Publication type | Periodical |
| Media type | Print (magazine) |
| Publication date | December, 1936 |
"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53). It was the last written of the author's known stories (other than a few collaborations written after it) and is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The epigraph to the story is the second stanza of Lovecraft's 1917 poem "Nemesis".
The story is a sequel to "The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch. Bloch wrote a third story in the sequence, "The Shadow from the Steeple", in 1950.
- ^ "Publication: Weird Tales, December 1936". ISFDB. Retrieved 2020-01-14.