Editing Lest Darkness Fall (section)

==Publication history==
A novella version was first published in ''[[Unknown (magazine)|Unknown]]'' #10, December 1939. The complete novel was published by [[Henry Holt and Company]] on 24 February 1941<ref>{{Cite book|last=Library of Congress Copyright Office|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIZaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA139|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series|date=1941|pages=139|language=en}}</ref> and reprinted by both [[Galaxy novels|Galaxy Publishing]] and [[Prime Press]] in 1949. The first British edition was published in hardcover by [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] in 1955. The first paperback edition was published by [[Pyramid Books]] in February 1963 and reprinted in August 1969. A later paperback edition was issued by [[Ballantine Books]] in August 1974 and reprinted in 1975, 1979 and 1983; the Ballantine edition was also issued in hardcover by the [[Science Fiction Book Club]] in April 1979 and reprinted in 1996. The importance of the work was recognized by its inclusion in [[The Easton Press]]'s series [[The Masterpieces of Science Fiction]] in 1989.<ref name="ISFDb">{{ISFDB title|id=1638|title=Lest Darkness Fall}}</ref> The book has also been collected with [[David Drake]]'s novella "To Bring the Light" in ''[[Lest Darkness Fall and To Bring the Light]]'' ([[Baen Books]], 1996), with other works by de Camp in ''[[Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp]]'' ([[NESFA Press]], 2005),<ref name="ISFDb"/> and with works by other authors in ''[[Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories]]'' (Phoenix Pick, 2011). An [[E-book]] edition was published by [[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]]'s [[SF Gateway]] imprint on September 29, 2011, as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/authors/de-camp-l.-sprague2 |title=Orion Publishing Group's L. Sprague de Camp webpage |access-date=2011-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826223742/http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/authors/de-camp-l.-sprague2 |archive-date=2011-08-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Lest-Darkness-Fall-ebook/dp/B005HRT8W2 Amazon.com entry for e-book edition]</ref> ''Galaxy's Edge'' magazine reprinted ''Lest Darkness Fall'' over four issues starting in August 2014, repeating a typographical error that appears in ''Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories'' ("have" for "lave" in Padway's seduction scene).