Scientific and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by H G Wells Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English servants H G Wells would become one of the most revered writers of his dayHis stories of adventure utopia and terror inspired such vastly different figures as Vladimir Nabokov Winston Churchill Jorge Luis Borges and Sinclair Lewis Many of his novels have been adapted for film theater radio and television including The Time Machine 1895 The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896 and The War of the Worlds 1898Scientific and Horrific Stories includes twentysix tales from across Wellsamp8217 career amp8220The Chronic Argonautsamp8221 written while Wells was recuperating from an illness with friends in StokeonTrent is a story of time travel set in rural Wales that predates his beloved The Time Machine by seven years amp8220amp198pyornis Islandamp8221 is a terrifying tale of greed and survival that originally appeared in an 1894 issue of the Pall Mall Budget Tasked with finding rare Aepyornis eggs a rugged Englishman named Butcher ventures to a remote swamp on the island of Madagascar When one of the eggs unexpectedly hatches he is left stranded and at the mercy of...
