Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Little Fuzzy

H. Beam Piper

The story opens on the arid cliffs of the planet Zarathustra, where veteran field‑operator Jack Holloway is…

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley

The Water‑Babies is a Victorian juvenile tale that begins in the grimy world of a North‑country chimney‑sweep…

The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance

Eric Rücker Eddison

The Worm Ouroboros is an expansive fantasy romance that begins in a richly described English garden, where…

The Monster Men

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The opening of The Monster Men places the reader in the cramped, fever‑dream laboratory of Professor Arthur…

The First Men in the Moon

H. G. Wells

The opening places the narrator in a sun‑lit Italian garden, reflecting on how a series of accidental…

The Book of Wonder

Lord Dunsany

The Book of Wonder is a sprawling fantasy tale by Lord Dunsany that begins with an ancient centaur,…

Weird Tales. Vol. 1 (of 2)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

The work is a whimsical episode drawn from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s collection of strange German tales, translated…

The Lost Continent

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

The Lost Continent is a blend of adventure, speculative archaeology, and early‑twentieth‑century scientific…

The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The story opens in a richly imagined kingdom where a newborn heir, described in lavish detail as the most…

Astounding Stories, July, 1931

Various

Astounding Stories, July 1931, is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine that opens with Jack Williamson’s short…

The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes

H. G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells’s 1899 science‑fiction novel, revised from its original serial form and…

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

L. Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is a whimsical continuation of L.

Micro-Man

Forrest J. Ackerman

The story opens with a narrator whose idle thoughts on Plato give way to a startling observation on a…

The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story

Clara Reeve

The Old English Baron is a Gothic‑tinged historical romance set against the turbulence of Henry VI’s…

Tarzan the Terrible

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The story is a pulpy adventure in which the legendary ape‑man Tarzan prowls a moonlit African jungle, hunting…

Armageddon—2419 A.D.

Philip Francis Nowlan

Armageddon, 2419 A.D. is a science‑fiction war story that begins with a striking premise: a man from the…

The Rose and the Ring

William Makepeace Thackeray

The work is a whimsical fairy‑tale framed as a Victorian “fireside pantomime.” It opens with a festive…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931

Various

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science January 1931 is a periodical anthology that gathers the speculative tales…

Beyond Lies the Wub

Philip K. Dick

Beyond Lies the Wub is a short‑fiction piece by Philip K.

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1923: The unique magazine

Various

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2 (April 1923) is a pulp‑era periodical that blends fiction with a strikingly…

All Around the Moon

Jules Verne

All‑Around‑the‑Moon is a speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction with a detailed, almost…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930

Various

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science, November 1930, is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine that opens with a…

Puck of Pook's Hill

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kip‑Keen’s Puck of Pook’s Hill opens with a lyrical inventory of England’s ancient landscape, then…

The Were-Wolf

Clemence Housman

The work is a nineteenth‑century folk‑tale of the supernatural, catalogued under “Werewolves – Fiction.” It…