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The Wild Asses of the Devil

H. G. Wells

First published September 1984
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story


First published in 1915 as part of Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump by Reginald Bliss (that is, Wells). That work is not a collection. As of April 2019 it is a non-genre novel at ISFDB (see).

This story is likely to be an extract from, or otherwise modified version of, Boon chapters 8 and 9:   8. The Beginning of "The Wild Asses of the Devil"   9. The Hunting of the Wild Asses of the Devil or pp. 223-294 in the 1st ed. (viewed at HathiTrust).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1984 Cover The Man with a Nose and the Other Uncollected Short Stories of H. G. Wells The Athlone Press Collection 142
March 1996 Cover The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy Souvenir Press Anthology 209
1997 Cover The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy Legend Anthology 209
1997 Cover Gefährliche Possen Heyne Anthology 304
1997 The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy Orbit Anthology 209
November 1997 Cover The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy Ace Books Anthology 238
1998 Cover The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy Orbit Anthology 209
August 1998 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells J. M. Dent Collection 820
July 2004 Cover Selected Stories of H. G. Wells Modern Library Collection 328
December 2006 Cover The Man Who Could Work Miracles Tartarus Press Collection
May 2007 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories Penguin Books Collection |23
December 2007 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories Penguin Books Collection 382
2009 Cover A Dream of Armageddon: The Complete Supernatural Tales Fall River Press Collection 314
January 2009 Cover A Dream of Armageddon Cybraria Collection
May 2010 Cover A Dream of Armageddon Kessinger Collection
February 2011 Cover H. G. Wells: Tales of the Weird and Supernatural Coachwhip Publications Collection
April 2011 Cover Complete Short Story Omnibus Gollancz Collection 891