Essential Stories II: The Door in the Wall and Other Disturbing Visions – H.G. Wells

Ten stories where H.G. Wells's visionary imagination explores the boundaries between the real and the fantastic, the possible and the unsettling. This anthology invites you to cross mysterious thresholds, witness warlike futures, and delve into scientific obsessions, intimate tragedies, and apocalyptic visions.

Includes:

1. The Door in the Wall – Nostalgia, mystery, and fate in a memory that haunts a lifetime.
2. Land battleships – Prophetic anticipation of mechanized warfare.
3. The extraordinary case of Davidson's eyes – Altered perception reveals a distant world.
4. The flowering of a strange orchid – A botanical terror with a deadly scent.
5. The Crystal Egg – A mysterious object that connects Earth to Mars.
6. The Cone – Revenge and violence in an oppressive industrial environment.
7. Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland – An encounter with wonder tinged with melancholy.
8. Pollock and the Porroh Man – Magical realism and African superstition in a story of destiny.
9. A Dream of Armageddon – A dream vision of an inevitable end of the world.
10. The Moth Mansion – Scientific rivalry turns into fatal obsession.