The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce

Edited by S. T. Joshi

• Data from publisher's website as of 2017-10-22.
• It is uncertain what the list price was at the time of first publication; prices at various times have also been given as $67.95 and $71.95.
• Edited, with introduction and commentary, by S. T. Joshi.
• The fables in this collection are divided into five sections, of which only the Fantastic Fables and the unreprinted Fantastic Fables have had their contents listed individually here:
  1. The Fables of Zambri, the Parsee (135 fables published in the London Fun and collected in Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, with as an appendix the 15 revised ones published as "Fables from 'Fun'" in the Collected Works
  2. Fantastic Fables (294 published in the Collected Works edition of Fantastic Fables)
  3. Unreprinted Fables from Fantastic Fables (1899) (10 published in the first edition and not reprinted in the Collected Works)
  4. Fables from The Devil's Dictionary (Seven excerpts from The Devil's Dictionary: "Cunning," "Fable," "Head," "Looking-Glass," "Opposition," "Satan," and "Ultimatum")
  5. Uncollected Fables (398 additional fables, most of them untitled, which Bierce published in newspapers between 1883 and 1907 and which have not been reprinted in any previous collection, plus one previously-unpublished fable from a manuscript)
• Most of the editorial content of this collection has not been listed in the contents below. Besides the Introduction, there is "A Note on This Edition" (explanation of editorial methods and acknowledgments); "Commentary" (notes on each fable, including original publication data, appearances in collected works, variants, and occasionally historical information or other explanatory notes); "A Chronology of Bierce's Fables" (list of first publications); "Index of Titles;" and "Index of Characters."