This "edition" is part of a larger project found here. The (De)collected War of the Worlds offers a view of The War of the Worlds within its periodical context, illuminating the novel's serial origins and how they have affected later versions of the text.

The short story originally published as “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter. Being a Seventh Extract from the Legacy of the Late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh” in Dublin University Magazine (May 1839) is widely recognized as the earliest masterpiece by the Irish novelist, short story writer, and journalist Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873).