Literary history of the short story "Cosmos Eye." The complete documentation on the short story from first handwritten draft, through typed draft, through acceptance, final version, proofs, and printed pages in the magazine.

Contains the first short stories Wollheim ever wrote. The first story "The Man in the Fog" was published in Wonder Stories magazine in a somewhat longer version, and was his first professional sale. All other stories in this book, written in longhand, were eventually sold and published.