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

Ten stories where H. G. Wells’s visionary imagination explores the threshold between the real and the fantastic, the possible and the disturbing. This anthology invites readers to cross mysterious gateways, witness future wars, and plunge into scientific obsessions, intimate tragedies, and apocalyptic visions.

Ten stories where H. G. Wells’s visionary imagination explores the threshold between the real and the fantastic, the possible and the disturbing. This anthology invites readers to cross mysterious gateways, witness future wars, and plunge 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. The Land Ironclads – Prophetic anticipation of mechanised warfare.
3. The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes – Altered perception revealing a distant world.
4. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid – Botanical terror with a deadly scent.
5. The Crystal Egg – A mysterious object linking Earth to Mars.
6. The Cone – Revenge and violence in an oppressive industrial setting.
7. Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland – An encounter with the marvellous tinged with melancholy.
8. Pollock and the Porroh Man – Magical realism and African superstition in a tale of fate.
9. A Dream of Armageddon – A dreamlike vision of an inevitable end of the world.
10. The Moth – Scientific rivalry turning into fatal obsession.

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1. The Door in the Wall – Nostalgia, mystery, and fate in a memory that haunts a lifetime.
2. The Land Ironclads – Prophetic anticipation of mechanised warfare.
3. The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes – Altered perception revealing a distant world.
4. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid – Botanical terror with a deadly scent.
5. The Crystal Egg – A mysterious object linking Earth to Mars.
6. The Cone – Revenge and violence in an oppressive industrial setting.
7. Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland – An encounter with the marvellous tinged with melancholy.
8. Pollock and the Porroh Man – Magical realism and African superstition in a tale of fate.
9. A Dream of Armageddon – A dreamlike vision of an inevitable end of the world.
10. The Moth – Scientific rivalry turning into fatal obsession.