The Opener of the Way

The Opener of the Way is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Robert Bloch. It was released in 1945 and was the author's first book. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 2,065 copies. Most of the stories had appeared in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s and 1940s, and some of the stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

A British hardcover was issued by Neville Spearman in 1974, with Panther Books issuing a two-volume paperback reprint in 1976. An Italian translation, with the stories reordered, appeared in 1991. The collection was never reprinted in the United States, but its contents (aside from Bloch's introduction) were included in the 1994 omnibus The Early Fears. Valancourt Books has scheduled an American reprinting of The Opener of the Way for late 2024, with a new introduction by Ramsey Campbell.