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The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells (expanded)

H. G. Wells

First published 1998
Publisher J. M. Dent
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages xii+883
Price £30.00
ISBN 0460879642


This is the first-published 84-story collection. Edited and introduced by John Hammond.

2020-05-09 Story titles imported from 2011 Complete Short Story Omnibus. Story title discrepancies as fashioned at Locus: "Mr." (the first four of five "Mr" stories), "Judgement", and two short titles (697, 806). That is, Locus lists only one colon-and-subtitle story (222 · In the Modern Vein), not three. Locus style is silent on the inconsistent use of quotation marks in the last two titles (Wells introductions).

Page numbers transcribed from Locus list of 1998 contents. Locus suggests title pages of the four early collections (1895 to 1903) as presumably unnumbered pp. 1 99 265 413 (spanning 50 stories, pp. 1-568) and three more interior title pages:   569 · The Door in the Wall and other stories   695 · Uncollected Stories   871 · Appendix Locus lists one more item   881 · Bibliography and mentions the introduction in its header: "Collection of 84 short stories and extracts, selected, edited and introduced by John Hammond."

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Stolen Bacillus H. G. Wells Short Story
9 The Flowering of the Strange Orchid H. G. Wells Short Story
16 In the Avu Observatory H. G. Wells Short Story
22 The Triumphs of a Taxidermist H. G. Wells Short Story
26 A Deal in Ostriches H. G. Wells Short Story
30 Through a Window H. G. Wells Short Story
37 The Temptation of Harringay H. G. Wells Short Story
42 The Flying Man H. G. Wells Short Story
48 The Diamond Maker H. G. Wells Short Story
54 Aepyornis Island H. G. Wells Short Story
63 The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes H. G. Wells Short Story
71 The Lord of the Dynamos H. G. Wells Short Story
78 The Hammerpond Park Burglary H. G. Wells Short Story
84 The Moth H. G. Wells Short Story
92 The Treasure in the Forest H. G. Wells Short Story
101 The Plattner Story H. G. Wells Short Story
116 The Argonauts of the Air H. G. Wells Short Story
126 The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham H. G. Wells Short Story
139 In the Abyss H. G. Wells Short Story
152 The Apple H. G. Wells Short Story
159 Under the Knife H. G. Wells Short Story
170 The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells Short Story
178 Pollock and the Porroh Man H. G. Wells Short Story
190 The Red Room H. G. Wells Short Story
198 The Cone H. G. Wells Short Story
207 The Purple Pileus H. G. Wells Short Story
216 The Jilting of Jane H. G. Wells Short Story
222 In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story H. G. Wells Short Story
230 A Catastrophe H. G. Wells Short Story
237 The Lost Inheritance H. G. Wells Short Story
243 The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic H. G. Wells Short Story
250 A Slip Under the Microscope H. G. Wells Short Story
267 The Crystal Egg H. G. Wells Short Story
281 The Star H. G. Wells Short Story
290 A Story of the Stone Age H. G. Wells Novella
333 A Story of the Days to Come H. G. Wells Novella
399 The Man Who Could Work Miracles H. G. Wells Short Story
415 Filmer H. G. Wells Short Story
429 The Magic Shop H. G. Wells Short Story
438 The Valley of Spiders H. G. Wells Short Story
447 The Truth About Pyecraft H. G. Wells Short Story
456 Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland H. G. Wells Short Story
467 The Inexperienced Ghost H. G. Wells Short Story
477 Jimmy Goggles the God H. G. Wells Short Story
487 The New Accelerator H. G. Wells Short Story
498 Mr Ledbetter's Vacation H. G. Wells Short Story
512 The Stolen Body H. G. Wells Short Story
525 Mr Brisher's Treasure H. G. Wells Short Fiction
533 Miss Winchelsea's Heart H. G. Wells Short Story
547 A Dream of Armageddon H. G. Wells Novelette
571 The Door in the Wall H. G. Wells Short Story
585 The Empire of the Ants H. G. Wells Short Story
598 A Vision of Judgment H. G. Wells Short Story
603 The Land Ironclads H. G. Wells Novelette
621 The Beautiful Suit H. G. Wells Short Story
625 The Pearl of Love H. G. Wells Short Story
629 The Country of the Blind H. G. Wells Novelette
649 The Reconciliation H. G. Wells Short Story
655 My First Aeroplane H. G. Wells Short Story
664 Little Mother Up the Mörderberg H. G. Wells Short Story
673 The Story of the Last Trump H. G. Wells Short Story
684 The Grisly Folk H. G. Wells Essay
697 A Tale of the Twentieth Century: For Advanced Thinkers H. G. Wells Short Fiction
701 Walcote H. G. Wells Short Story
707 The Devotee of Art H. G. Wells Short Story
717 The Man with a Nose H. G. Wells Short Story
720 A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels H. G. Wells Short Story
729 Wayde's Essence H. G. Wells Short Story
737 A Misunderstood Artist H. G. Wells Short Story
741 Le Mari Terrible H. G. Wells Short Story
745 The Rajah's Treasure H. G. Wells Short Story
755 The Presence by the Fire H. G. Wells Short Story
760 Mr Marshall's Doppelganger H. G. Wells Short Fiction
769 The Thing in No. 7 H. G. Wells Short Story
775 The Thumbmark H. G. Wells Short Story
781 A Family Elopement H. G. Wells Short Fiction
786 Our Little Neighbour H. G. Wells Short Fiction
793 How Gabriel Became Thompson H. G. Wells Short Fiction
802 How Pingwill Was Routed H. G. Wells Short Fiction
806 The Loyalty of Esau Common: A Fragment H. G. Wells Short Story
820 The Wild Asses of the Devil H. G. Wells Short Story
829 Answer to Prayer H. G. Wells Short Story
831 The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper H. G. Wells Short Story
846 The Country of the Blind (Revised Version) H. G. Wells Novelette
873 Introduction to The Country of the Blind and Other Stories H. G. Wells Essay
877 Introduction to Revised Version of "The Country of the Blind" H. G. Wells Essay
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