Two scientists discover a substance which promotes rapid and extreme growth in plants, animals, and humans, leading to unexpected and alarming consequences.

An Antarctic expedition reveals the horrifying reality of ancient myths in the depths of the continent.

An engineer poses as an aide to a scientist whose invention of a world-conquering weapon drives him insane.

Facing the devastation of a nuclear world war, humanity unites under a world government.

A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.

Prompted by a mysterious Icelandic manuscript, a professor and his nephew, with the aid of a local guide, adventure to the center of the earth through the crater of a dormant volcano.

A thousand years in the future, the builder of a spaceship discovers his emotions.

A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells in a variety of genres ordered by date of publication.

A comet threatens to collide with the Earth, perhaps bringing about the end of the world.

A shipwrecked man is rescued by a boat and left on a strange island owned by a physiologist who experiments in vivisection.

A scientist named Griffin creates a serum to render himself invisible and subsequently descends into madness.

The first-person narrative of the Martian invasion of 19th-century Earth.