Unlikely Stories, Mostly

[3] A revised edition with the extra stories "A Unique Case" and "Inches in a Column" in thirteenth and fourteenth place, and a new postscript by Douglas Gifford, was released in 2010.

[5] Writing in the London Review of Books, Daniel Eilon contrasted the variable quality and experimental nature of the first seven stories with the next five, which he called the "real achievement of this work", and the final two shorter pieces.

While suggesting the collection could have benefited from some editing out of weaker material, he described "Logopandocy" as "an extraordinary feat of imaginative insight.

"[7] Theo Tait, in The Guardian, wrote that Unlikely Stories, Mostly is Gray's best short-story collection, and is influenced by Kafka, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson's Rasselas.

[9] Dave Langford reviewed Unlikely Stories, Mostly for White Dwarf #55, calling it "an uneven but excellent collection of fantasies and parables, mostly.