The recording sessions for Walk Among Us took place at multiple studios between June 1981 and January 1982, and the album also includes the track "Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?

When the album was reissued in 1988 by Ruby Records, the purple cover was retained, but the band's logo was changed to a green color.

[6] The album's sixth track, "Hate Breeders", was recorded at Newfound Sound in Fair Lawn, New Jersey in June 1981.

[7] The seventh and only live track on the album, "Mommy, Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight", was recorded on December 17, 1981, at the Ritz in New York City.

[6][7] As the track fades out, the band can be heard beginning to play the song "London Dungeon", which was not included on the album in its entirety.

[citation needed] In January 1982, overdubbing took place at Quad Teck in Los Angeles, California,[7] where Misfits vocalist Glenn Danzig would also mix the tracks with both Chris Desjardins of the Flesh Eaters and Pat Burnette.

When the album was reissued in 2018 by Earache Records, the colors of the cover artwork were changed again, this time with a pink background and a green logo.

[12] In a 2009 interview with Joe Matera, Danzig expressed his displeasure with the album's cover artwork, stating that "I remember I flipped out on our label because it was supposed to be in all these different colors such as red, black and orange but the way it came out was truly awful.

[15] The album was reissued on November 30, 2018, by Earache Records with six limited-run variant colored pressings, identified by the catalog number MOSH666.

[19][13] Jason Heller of Pitchfork gave the album a rating of 9.4 out of 10, praising the "insidiously catchy" nature of the songs and writing: "This album is a work of feverish imagination, but it's in no way escapist [... Danzig] sings of butchering people and keeping their body parts even as the names Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy sent chills down the spine of a nation.

[20] In his book The Complete Misfits Discography, author Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter calls Walk Among Us "one of the greatest officially released punk albums of all time.