Edgar Allan Poe — “Mystification”

Reading copy:

• “Mystification” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Von Jung, the Mystific” — 1837, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Von Jung, the Mystific” — June 1837 — American Monthly Magazine — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “Von Jung, the Mystific” — 1837-1839 — (speculated copy of American Monthly Magazine with changes made by Poe. This copy has not survived, but the text is presumably reflected in Text-04.)
• Text-04 — “Von Jung” — 1840 — TGA — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-05 — “Mystification” — 1842 — manuscript title revision in TGAPP — (This revision lost, but presumably recorded in Text-05)
• Text-06 — “Mystification” — December 27, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text) (For Griswold’s 1856 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)

Reprints:

• “Mystification” — June 3, 1837 — Boston Pearl and Galaxy  (noted by Ljungquist)
• “Mystification” — 1856 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text-06  (Mabbott text D)
• “Mystification” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, second series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 428-436 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe’s Works. It was reprinted several times.)
• “Mystification” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram, vol. II, pp. 481-489 (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Mystification” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (3:289-300)
• “Mystification” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:102-113, and 4:278-283)
• “Von Jung (Mystification)” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:292-305)
• “Mystification” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 253-261

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• “Mystification” — Comparative Text (BJ and WORKS)

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Une mystification” — 1882 — Contes Grotesques par Edgar Poe, Paris: Paul Ollendorff  (French translation by Émile Hennequin)
• “Mystification” — 1914 — Edgar Poe: Histories étranges et Merrveilleuses, Paris: Mercure de France (French translation by M. D. Calvocoressi)
• “Mystification” — 1934 — Les Sphinx et autres contes bizarres par Edgar Poë, Paris: Galliard (French translation by Matila C. Ghyka)
• “Mystification” — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier  (French translation by Léon Lemonnier)

• Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
• Pollin, Burton R.,”Poe’s ‘Mystification’: Its Source in Fay’s Norman Leslie,” Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 1972, 25:111-130.
• Wyllie, John Cooke, “A List of the Texts of Poe’s Tales,” Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.