During the 1930s he wrote unpublished fiction and drama.

This posthumous collection of unpublished fiction includes the title piece, a novel written in 1936, about an exotic Hungarian whose arrival shakes up a quiet Shropshire village.

Suddenly, his unpublished fiction was also in demand.

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000- 5,000 words).

Funded by a legacy from the author and supported by Pan Macmillan, it is for a work of unpublished fiction, preferably with an association with Cornwall.

Financially supported by his parents, he moved to Paris where he wrote "mainly short, unpublished fiction and longer screenplays which were not made into films."

The book compilation was put together in order to publicly release some of the unpublished fiction Cummins wrote while living in Montreal.

From time to time he recycles this stuff into books, even repurposing his ancient unpublished fiction.

Most of the selections are criticism articles or book reviews, although some previously unpublished fiction has recently appeared.

Additionally, the project features previously unpublished fiction by Mantlo, some of which was adapted into sequential form by Yurkovich.