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The Eggs of the Silver Moon

Robert W. Chambers

First published November 1915
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Lost Species


Published March 1915 in Hearst's Magazine, pp. 283-87(?), as "Eggs of the Silver Moon". --The FictionMags Index

Published in St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1916-06-25, pp. B6ff., as "The Eggs of the Silver Moon: Number Five of a Series of Short Stories", with 3 illustrations by Byrnes.

This was the second of six stories published in Hearst's Magazine 1915 and the last of six in the later collection. First and last paragraphs are identical in the book and in SLPD.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1915 Cover Police!!! D. Appleton & Company Collection 259
July 2000 Cover The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers Chaosium Omnibus 630
February 2004 Cover The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers Chaosium Omnibus 630
June 2006 Police!!! Project Gutenberg Collection
December 2008 Cover Invertebrata Enigmatica: Giant Spiders, Dangerous Insects, and Other Strange Invertebrates in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Coachwhip Publications Anthology 264
October 2017 Cover In Search of the Unknown / Police!!! Stark House Press Omnibus 277