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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” —
reading copy — based on Text 00
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "Never Bet Your Head, A Moral Tale" — 1841, no
original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version
is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
- "Never Bet Your Head, A Moral Tale" — September
1841
— Graham's — Text 02 (Mabbott text A)
- "Never Bet Your Head" — 1842 — TGAPP
(manuscript of title only) — Text
03 (The tale is listed in Poe's handwritten
table of contents,
but the text itself no longer survives. It was probably a
modified version of the printed text from Graham's Magazine,
and is presumably recorded, with perhaps a few additional changes made
in proof,
in Text 04)
Reprints:
- "Never Bet Your Head" — September 4, 1841
— Brother
Jonathan
- "Never Bet Your Head" — September 7, 1841
— Jonathan's
Miscellany
- "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" — 1852 — Tales
and
Sketches: to which is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George
Routledge & Co.
- “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” —
1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:124-136) (This collection was
subsequently reprinted in various forms)
- “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” —
1902 — The Complete Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York:
T.
Y.
Crowell (4:213-226, and 4:309-311)
- “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” —
1978 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(2:621-634)
Associated Material and Special versions:
- "Ne pariez jamais votre téte au diable" — 1882
— Contes Grotesques par Edgar Poe, Paris:
Paul Ollendorff (French translation
by Émile
Hennequin)
- “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” — July 28, 1957 — a
radio show broadcast on The CBS Radio Workshop
show, introduced as "dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the
mind" and starring John Denner as Poe and Daws Butler as the young
Toby. (Butler would become more famous as the voice of Yogi Bear,
Huckleberry Hound and other Hanna-Barbera characters. This
radio episode is available on CD as part of a 6-CD set of
"Smithsonian Legendary Performers," issued in 2004. As was often the
case with
dramatic presentations of Poe's works, the story has been modified.)
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