New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-6] 7-280 [281-284: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], original red-brown cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, U.S. issue with title leaf a cancel. The U.S. edition was printed from the plates of the British edition. Probably the author's strongest collection of short fiction, fifteen stories including weird and criminous tales. "Of these fifteen tales the best (and best-known) are: 'The Three Dead Men,' 'The Iron Pineapple,' [and] 'My First Murder.' All deserve their fame, and the rest are not to be sneezed at. EP is a born storyteller, especially in his Devon dialect pieces. Worth anybody's attention, but not detection in the active voice." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 2717. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1309. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 85. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-201. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 409. Bleiler, p. 158. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 645].

London: John Murray, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-281 [282: blank] [283: biographical note on Phillpotts] [284-286: ads] [287-288: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first binding. "A spaceship from another world contains an egg that hatches into an intelligent lizard. This was the first story that attempted to use an alien visitor as an objective observer to comment on the state of contemporary human civilization, and is rather more sympathetic than most work in this vein." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-98. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-81; (1987) 2-90; and (2004) II-850. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 73. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, 176. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 271-72. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1866-70. Bleiler (1978), p. 158. Reginald 11489].