Terry Whalen is the author of Bliss Carman and His Works, Charles G.D. Roberts and His Works, and Philip Larkin and English Poetry. He is a past editor of Atlantic Provinces Book Review, and editor of The Atlantic Anthology: Criticism. He is a Professor of English at Saint Mary's University, and an Adjunct Graduate Professor of English at Dalhousie University.

This edition of Stories recovers what its editor sees as twenty of his finest works. Along with Ernest Thompson Seton, Roberts was the co-founder of the modern 'realistic' animal story. Misao Dean, Joseph Gold, W. J. Keith, T. D. MacLulich, and Terry Whalen contributed to the Criticism section. There is a short biography, anonymous reviews, commentaries on animals and the animal story by Roberts, and an extensive bibliography.