Bleiler, in his The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, describes this as essentially an essay on horror and supernatural stories told to children. Bleiler goes on to state a story from this essay is excerpted as "The Rat that Could Speak", "The Rat" or "The Devil and Mr. Chips".
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | The Uncommercial Traveller | Chapman & Hall | Nonfiction | ||
| 1868 | The Uncommercial Traveller and Additional Christmas Stories | Ticknor and Fields | Collection | ||
| May 1997 | The Uncommercial Traveller | Project Gutenberg | Nonfiction | ||
| October 1998 |
|
A Christmas Carol and Other Haunting Tales | Doubleday / SFBC | Collection | 127 |
| December 2015 |
|
The Uncommercial Traveller | Oxford University Press | Nonfiction | 148 |