Songs of a Dead Dreamer

US precedence, and specifically New Mexico precedence: an American author's debut from a 300-copy Albuquerque micro-press, with no UK or trade edition preceding it. The common text is a later and different book. The expanded, revised edition was first published paperbound in the UK by Robinson Publishing in 1989, collecting two essays and eighteen stories, many revised for that edition; Carroll & Graf issued the US expanded hardcover, whose year is reported inconsistently as 1989 and as June 1990 with twenty stories — that discrepancy is unresolved in the sources consulted. Both expanded editions add 'Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story' and 'Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror,' which are absent from the Silver Scarab original: presence of those pieces immediately rules a copy out as the 1985 first.