The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants

US precedence with no competing edition: a British author's debut published by a Wisconsin small press, with no contemporaneous UK edition of the 1964 text. Two 'first thus' traps to reject: Cold Print (Scream/Press, US, 1985) reprints the collection with three stories omitted, and the Headline (UK, 1993) expanded Cold Print restores them — both are reprint gatherings, not this book. PS Publishing (UK, 2011) issued an expanded and illustrated reissue retitled The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome Tenants, adding the stories' early drafts as written before Campbell revised them to August Derleth's suggestions plus Derleth/Campbell correspondence; it is a materially different text and is not the first edition.