The Shadow over Innsmouth
In late 1936, he witnessed the publication of "The Shadow over Innsmouth" as a paperback book. However, Lovecraft was displeased, as his book was riddled with errors. It sold slowly and only approximately 200 copies were bound. The remaining copies were destroyed after the publisher went out of business. By this point, Lovecraft's literary career had reached its end. Shortly after having written his last original short story, "The Haunter of the Dark", he stated that the hostile reception of "At the Mountains of Madness" had done "more than anything to end my effective fictional career".