The Red Room
A confident young man insists on spending a night alone in the castle's haunted red room.
H. G. Wells was an English writer known for imaginative science fiction and stories that mix strange discoveries with questions about human nature. Here you can find his stories, from “The Time Machine” and “The War of the Worlds” to shorter works like “The Red Room,” all free to read or listen to on Pagehush.
The Truth About Pyecraft
A very fat man begs a friend for an old Indian family recipe for losing weight.
The Magic Shop
A father takes his little boy into a London magic shop, and the tricks turn out to be a bit too real.
Aepyornis Island
A collector hunting giant bird eggs in Madagascar is stranded on a coral island with an egg, which hatches.
The New Accelerator
A professor invents a drink that makes you live a thousand times faster than everyone else.
The Door in the Wall
As a small boy, Lionel Wallace found a green door in a white wall and stepped into an enchanted garden.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
A very ordinary clerk discovers he can work miracles, and tries to use his power sensibly.
The Crystal Egg
In a junk shop in Seven Dials sits a crystal egg. Look into it from the right angle, and you see another world, and something on it looking back.
The Country of the Blind
A mountaineer falls into a hidden valley where everyone has been blind for fifteen generations.
The Time Machine
A Victorian inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds a gentle, childlike people living above ground, and something else living below.
The Invisible Man
A stranger wrapped in bandages, gloves and dark glasses takes a room at a village inn one snowy February, and refuses to let anyone see his face.
The War of the Worlds
A cylinder falls on Horsell Common outside London. Out of it come Martians with heat-rays and great tripod machines, and nothing on Earth seems able to stop them.
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