20th Century Ghosts

UK precedes US, and both editions are collected. The true first is PS Publishing, Hornsea, East Yorkshire, October 2005 — Joe Hill's debut book. The first US edition is William Morrow (HarperCollins), New York, October 2007, and it is not a straight reprint: it adds 'Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead' (first published in Postscripts, Autumn 2005), which was not in the PS edition. The Morrow edition is therefore simultaneously the first US edition, the first trade edition, and the first book appearance of that story — a genuine expanded 'first thus' collected on its own terms — but it is not the true first of the collection. The census claim is confirmed as stated.