Science-Fiction & Fantasy

The Smoky God; Or, A Voyage to the Inner World

Willis George Emerson

The work is a speculative travel narrative that frames itself as the transcription of an elderly Norwegian…

The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

The story opens as a first‑person narrator, a newspaper reporter named Malone, recounts a recent expedition…

The Mystery of the Sea

Bram Stoker

The work is a Scottish‑set adventure that folds mystery, prophecy and cryptic intrigue into a single…

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 3, May, 1923: The unique magazine

Various

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 3 (May 1923) is a pulp‑era magazine that assembles a eclectic mix of short…

Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The work is a science‑fiction adventure that begins with a self‑referential letter from a desert‑traveling…

The Gods of Pegana

Lord Dunsany

The work is a mythic fantasy that presents itself as a creation‑myth for an imagined pantheon.

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

H. G. Wells

The volume is a collection of short, speculative tales by H. G.

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

John Jacob Astor

The work is a speculative romance set in the far‑future, blending scientific imagination with a narrative of…

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Mark Twain

This piece is a whimsical satire that imagines a dead captain’s after‑life as a space‑faring adventure.

The Beasts of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The novel thrusts the legendary ape‑man, Lord Greystoke, better known as Tarzan, into a frantic urban chase…

The Tin Woodman of Oz A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter

L. Frank Baum

The story is a whimsical adventure set in L. Frank Baum’s ever‑expanding Land of Oz, focusing on the Tin…

Skylark Three

E. E. Smith

Skylark Three is a 1930s science‑fiction adventure that picks up the saga of the original Skylark of Space.

A Pail of Air

Fritz Leiber

A short‑story collection by Fritz Leiber, A Pail of Air places its first tale in a frozen, sunless world…

The Cosmic Computer

H. Beam Piper

The Cosmic Computer is a mid‑century science‑fiction adventure that opens with Conn Maxwell, a Terran…

Thirty Strange Stories

H. G. Wells

Thirty strange stories gathers together a handful of H. G.

Astounding Stories, March, 1931

Various

Astounding Stories, March 1931 is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine, printed by the Readers’ Guild in New…

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Cory Doctorow

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a science‑fiction tale that folds the glitter of Walt Disney World into…

The Big Trip Up Yonder

Kurt Vonnegut

The piece is a science‑fiction short story that opens in a cramped, over‑populated future apartment where a…

Mardi, and a voyage thither, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Herman Melville

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither, Vol. 2 of 2 is an exotic adventure set in a mythic Polynesian archipelago.

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Xianzu Tang

The tunnel thru the air: or, Looking back from 1940

William D. Gann

The work is a speculative narrative that blends religious reflection with an imagined future conflict.

The Ball and the Cross

G. K. Chesterton

The work is a comic‑philosophical allegory that pits a flamboyant, self‑styled scientist, Professor Lucifer,…

Weird Tales, Vol. 2 (of 2)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

We begin in a bustling 19th‑century Berlin art salon, where a painted tableau of a richly attired Doge and…

The Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter

The Tailor of Gloucester is a short Christmas‑time tale that blends the practical concerns of a struggling…