# Endnotes explained — Short Fiction

> Chapter companion for Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

## What happens

Editorial notes providing publication history and authorship details for the stories in the collection, including the original title and retitling of one story and the ghostwriting credit for another.

## Key lines

> This is the title used when first published in the The Wolverine , March 1921, but the story was retitled as “The White Ape” when reprinted in Weird Tales , April 1924.

The story originally appeared as this title in The Wolverine in March 1921, but was renamed 'The White Ape' for its reprint in Weird Tales in April 1924.

_Provides publication history of the story._

> Ghostwritten by Lovecraft for Harry Houdini.

Lovecraft wrote this story as a ghostwriter for Harry Houdini.

_Reveals the story's authorship as a ghostwriting commission._

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