First published in the Saturday Review (London), 27 December 1913. Date from Joshi & Schweitzer, Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (1993).
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1915 | Fifty-One Tales | Mitchell Kennerley | Collection | 134 | |
| 1915 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Elkin Mathews | Collection | 106 |
| 1917 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Little, Brown | Collection | 134 |
| 1919 | Fifty-One Tales | Little, Brown | Collection | 134 | |
| September 1974 |
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The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales | Newcastle Publishing | Collection | 134 |
| 1980 | The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales | Borgo Press | Collection | 134 | |
| January 2003 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Wildside Press | Collection | |
| April 2005 | Fifty-One Tales | Project Gutenberg | Collection | 134 | |
| June 2009 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Serenity Publishers | Collection | |49 |
| January 2010 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Watchmaker Publishing | Collection | |
| October 2012 |
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Fifty-One Tales | LibriVox | Collection | |49 |
| March 2015 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Positronic Publishing | Collection | |49 |
| May 2015 |
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Fifty-One Tales | LibriVox | Collection | |49 |
| March 2016 |
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The Great Book of Wonder: 10 Classic Short Story Collections | Wildside Press | Omnibus | 332|332.1 |
| February 2017 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Open Road Integrated Media | Collection | |
| September 2020 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Lamplight | Collection | |134 |
| November 2024 |
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Fifty-One Tales | Aeterna | Collection | 62 |