Note: 23 stories first published 1894 to 1915 "Edited by Patrick Parrinder with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and notes by Andy Sawyer" 18 of them are among the 33 that Wells selected and introduced in 1911 for The Country of the Blind and Other Stories, the original "Country of the Blind" collection. The 2007 Penguin Classics publications contain the 1911 "Introduction". Wells introduces "this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. ... Many of very questionable merit find a place; it is an inclusive and not an exclusive gathering. ... The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the last century." Wells had nearly ceased writing short stories, he says. (By "short stories" Wells means ISFDB short stories and novelettes, approximately. He sets aside the two novellas contained in his four 1895 to 1903 collections, "A Story of the Stone Age" (selected here) and "A Story of the Days to Come".)