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

A writer of adventure stories indulges in a sudden urge to travel to the islands of the Pacific, and soon finds himself shipwrecked on a remote South Sea island.

In the far future, a long-lost manuscript describes how the United States descended into a tyranny ruled by oligarchic plutocrats.

A London lawyer investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope.

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

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.

Five Americans, balloon-wrecked on a deserted island, must find a way to survive while revealing the island’s strange mysteries.

Two British men become the first humans to reach the Moon.

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

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

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

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