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Ein behaglicher Herrenabend am Kaminfeuer, ein verirrtes Gespenst ohne jede Spukerfahrung und eine Reihe magischer Gesten, die man niemals nachahmen sollte: „Die Geschichte vom unerfahrenen Gespenst" ist H. G. Wells' meisterhafte Mischung aus feinem britischem Humor und schleichendem Schauer. Nach einer ausgedehnten Partie Golf versammelt sich eine illustre Runde englischer Gentlemen im altehrwürdigen Mermaid Club vor dem prasselnden Kaminfeuer.

En esta fantasía de 1897, H. G. Wells advierte sobre los peligros de la ciencia mal utilizada y critica ferozmente las ambiciones de sus contemporáneos. La trama se centra en las investigaciones de un brillante científico que descubre la forma de hacerse invisible. Sin embargo, incapaz de revertir sus experimentos y trastornado por los sufrimientos que le causan, decide utilizar la invisibilidad para sembrar el mal, sin detenerse siquiera ante el asesinato.

“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” repeats in Chen Fangyuan’s mind after he finds himself trapped in a valley holding a community of people for whom a disease eliminated their vision many generations before and no longer have a concept of sight. Chen Fangyuan quickly finds that these people have developed their other senses to compensate for their lack of sight. His insistence that he can see causes the entire community to believe he is crazy.

An einem warmen Abend am Ufer der Themse trifft der Erzähler auf einen heruntergekommenen, zerlumpten Landstreicher. Doch der Fremde ist kein gewöhnlicher Bettler: Er behauptet, nach jahrelanger harter Arbeit und gefährlichen Experimenten das Geheimnis zur künstlichen Herstellung riesiger Diamanten gelöst zu haben. Als Beweis zieht er einen roh geschnittenen Edelstein von der Größe einer Daumenkuppe hervor. Doch das Schicksal meint es grausam mit ihm: Von der Polizei fälschlicherweise für einen anarchistischen Bombenbauer gehalten und von Juwelieren gemieden ...

Tauch ein in eine der visionärsten Kurzgeschichten von H. G. Wells: „Der neue Beschleuniger". Erlebe ein faszinierendes Abenteuer über die Grenzen der Biologie und die Manipulation der Zeit, atmosphärisch für dich gelesen von Benjamin Werner. Professor Gibberne ist ein Genie auf dem Gebiet der Nervenphysiologie. Seine neueste Erfindung ist jedoch mehr als nur ein Stimulans – es ist eine Revolution. Der „Neue Beschleuniger" versetzt den menschlichen Körper in eine derartige Geschwindigkeit, dass die gesamte Umgebung zur unbeweglichen Statue erstarrt.

What happens when the role you critique begins to play you? Egbert Craddock Cummins was an unassuming man with simple tastes, but a sudden assignment as a theater critic plunges his impressionable mind into a waking nightmare. Night after night, exposed to the wild gestures and melodramatic...

What if your final heartbeat was not the end of life, but the beginning of an infinite, terrifying awakening? In H.G. Wells’s deeply unsettling psychological horror "Under the Knife", a routine medical procedure devolves into a cosmic nightmare. As the suffocating stench of chloroform...

Your nightmares are REAL. And they are waiting for you in the year 3000. A ghost of a man boards a train, gripped by a terror that is slowly killing him: his nightmares are a gateway to a future that has already burned. Night after night, his mind is violently pulled centuries forward into a...

Is this a new star... or our final night? Something impossible has broken the lonely silence of the void, rushing out of the black mystery of space and straight toward our sun. At first, it is just a remote speck of light. Humanity watches in idle wonder as a magnificent new star illuminates the...

What if your greatest gift was feared as a dangerous madness? Deep within a treacherous, forgotten valley of the Andes lies a society entirely cut off from the civilized world. Here, sight is a long-forgotten myth, and the inhabitants have adapted perfectly to the dark. When stranded mountaineer...

"It isn't every one who's been a god," said the sunburnt man. "But it's happened to me..." When the Ocean Pioneer sinks in twenty fathoms of water, she takes fifty thousand pounds of pure gold dust down with her. Desperate to strike it rich, a crew of rogue salvagers launches a secret expedition...

"I can assure you, it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me." With a loaded revolver and the cold arrogance of youth, a skeptic locks himself inside the infamous Red Room of Lorraine Castle. He scoffs at the warnings of the three withered, grotesque caretakers who watch him depart with...

One split-second mistake. One impossible choice. How far would you go to secure your future? Hill is a brilliant student from a humble background, fighting to prove his worth in a world of silver spoons and academic prestige. His biggest obstacle? The wealthy, effortless Wedderburn. Their...

To Kill a Man is One Thing. To Survive His Ghost is Another. Professor Hapley spent a lifetime hunting his rival, Professor Pawkins, into an early tomb. But in the cold, quiet aftermath of victory, something has begun to stir in the corners of his room. A moth - vast, vibrant, and utterly...

"Before there were robots, there was the Dynamo - and it was hungry." In the heart of a Victorian electric shed, amidst a deafening roar of iron and steam, sits the Big Dynamo. To the cruel engineer Holroyd, it is just a powerful tool of the modern world. But to his mistreated assistant...

What would you do with a thousand hours in every minute? Imagine a world where time doesn't just crawl - it stops. Professor Gibberne has unlocked the ultimate human boundary with his "New Accelerator," a stimulant so potent it renders the rest of humanity as motionless as stone. One drop of...

"The universe doesn’t care if you’re ready - it’s coming for you anyway." Before the age of space travel, genetic engineering, or quantum physics, one mind dared to imagine them all. "The H. G. Wells Classic Science Fiction Collection" brings together 14 of the most influential tales ever...

What if the world you knew was only a thin veil over the impossible? Long before science fiction became a cinematic powerhouse, one man dared to dream of invisible men, biological anomalies, and the terrifying beauty of the unknown. That man was H. G. Wells. This powerhouse collection features...

"Vocês precisam me ouvir com atenção." É assim que o leitor será transportado, guiado pelo Viajante do Tempo, para um futuro longínquo, onde conhecerá raças fascinantes e peculiares. H. G. Wells, um dos responsáveis por inovar a proposta dos romances de ficção científica, nos deixou...

Com uma atmosfera obscura e fantástica, este conto de H. G. Wells de 1896 (lançado quando o autor tinha apenas 30 anos) leva o leitor a uma Londres sombria, na qual a noite reserva visões e acontecimentos sobrenaturais (ou seria apenas o fruto da ciência moderna?). Um...