Thirty of Wells’s short tales of the uncanny and the scientific. A collector buys an orchid with an appetite, an anarchist steals what he thinks is a phial of cholera, a sceptic spends a night in a haunted room, a bathysphere drops into the abyss, and an observer in Borneo fights an unknown creature in the dark.
The short fiction in which Wells tried out the ideas that drive his scientific romances. Download the free EPUB.