Graves's stories were gathered in Collected Short Stories in 1964. In 1978, Penguin Books brought out a paperback edition titled The Shout: And Other Stories. They tend to be whimsical and much shorter than "The Shout," and they reflect Graves's interest in creativity and history, sometimes combining the interests as in the Roman story "Epics Are Out of Fashion," in which it is better to be a good runner than a good poet.