Year after year, in spite of monumental dangers, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains, whether it's the cliffs of Yosemite or the peaks of the Himalaya. At these places, even the...
'The stranger came early in February ... He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose.' After being evicted by his...
Late one night, a mysterious man wanders into a tiny English village. He is covered from head to toe in bandages. After a series of burglaries, the villagers grow suspicious. Who is this man? Where...
On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages...
Wells weaves a story of scientific excess into a high-speed thriller. Montgomery, a brilliant but twisted biologists, is delivering exotic animals to his private island, when he rescues a...
Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a...
Every speculative fiction author sooner or later writes about a trip to a magic shop. Here's the short story that might have started that trend by "The Father of Science Fiction" H.G. Wells.
Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world...
"Science is a match that man has just got alight." An important early essay on science and philosophy, offering insight into the unfettered mind that would a few years later belong to "The Father of...
Nine great stories in which Wells delves into strange and fantastic worlds. Included are The Country of the Blind, The Door in the Wall, and The Truth About Pyecraft .
