First prepared for publication in early 1957, it was left unpublished on Dunsany's death later that year, and lost in the family archives.

[1] Rediscovered in 2001, it was finally issued in a limited first special edition in 2002, and become widely available only on its inclusion (together with the preceding book, Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey and three other short stories), in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume Three, issued by Night Shade Books in April 2005.

Doyle, who gives some background to the collection, which he discovered at Dunsany Castle in early 2001 (also in the 2000s finding an unpublished novel, poems and a few plays and other stories), and its existence seems to have been a surprise.

While most early Jorkens was magazine-published, and then collected, many of the stories in this volume appear to have been for book publication only, and so had not been seen in any form, and were something new for Dunsany fans.

Under special provisions in law for first-published material in some countries, such stories enjoy extended copyright protection (in the USA until 2047, for example, or 2052 in Russia and Canada).