A masterful selection of ten unforgettable short stories by H. G. Wells, a towering figure in science fiction, fantasy, and social satire. This anthology spans his most intense atmospheres—from mystery and gothic terror to adventure, scientific speculation, and philosophical reflection.

Includes:

1. The Country of the Blind – Allegory and adventure in an isolated valley where sight is heresy.
2. The Magic Shop – An uncanny store reshapes reality under a veil of social critique.
3. The Red Room – A chilling tale of psychological terror in a haunted chamber.
4. The New Accelerator – A scientific experiment turns seconds into eternities.
5. The Plattner Story – A man returns from another dimension bearing an impossible mystery.
6. In the Abyss – A descent into oceanic depths and an encounter with the unknown.
7. The Valley of Spiders – Pursuit and danger in a desolate landscape.
8. The Star – A cosmic catastrophe of haunting beauty.
9. The Stolen Bacillus – Satire on paranoia in the face of scientific progress.
10. The Man Who Could Work Miracles – Humour and reflection on absolute power.

In a futuristic London, Graham, a man plagued by a strange form of insomnia, falls into a deep sleep that lasts for more than two centuries. Upon awakening, he discovers that he has become the unwitting master of the world: his wealth, accumulated during his slumber, has granted him absolute power over a society ruled by oligarchies and dominated by astonishing—and oppressive—technology. Caught between rebels and rulers, Graham must decide whether he will become the saviour of an enslaved humanity or a cog in its own prison. One of H. G. Wells’s most intense visionary novels, and a precursor to modern dystopia.

Griffin, a brilliant young scientist, unlocks the secret of invisibility—and is trapped inside his own experiment. Faceless and unmoored from identity, he hides in a quiet English village as genius curdles into paranoia and violence. The Invisible Man is a scientific thriller that exposes how fragile morality becomes when no one is watching. With razor-edged irony and clinical precision, Wells dissects power, isolation, and the limits of personal responsibility. A gripping, unsettling modern classic that anticipates today’s debates on surveillance, ethics, and unrestrained science.

Cylinders crash from the sky. From within, towering tripods rise and a cold, methodical enemy advances. London and its outskirts become a landscape of flight and awe as an unnamed narrator records the collapse of certainties—empire, science, faith in progress. The War of the Worlds fuses relentless action with a fierce critique of colonialism and human arrogance. With indelible images—the heat-ray, the black smoke—Wells invents the alien invasion as a mirror to our own conquests. A visionary classic whose urgency never fades.

A Victorian inventor dares to cross the frontier of time and awakens in an unimaginable future: a world of childlike beauty and underground shadows, where the Eloi live on the surface and the Morlocks rule from below. The Time Machine is at once an adventure, a social fable, and a scientific warning. H. G. Wells blends wonder and satire to probe class tensions, the fate of civilization, and the cost of progress. Swiftly paced and wildly inventive, this cornerstone of science fiction still confronts every new reader with a haunting question: what endures when time erodes everything?