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"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...

"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...

Romance de ficção científica de H. G. Wells, "A ilha do doutor Moreau" foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1896. Nesta obra, Wells alia à sua característica crítica social considerações particulares a respeito da teoria da evolução das espécies. Nesta narrativa, o náufrago Charles...

The Collection of Sci-Fi Masterpieces (50+ Books) is an essential anthology of classic science fiction, bringing together the visionary works of legendary authors such as Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, and many others. This collection offers an extraordinary journey through time, space, and the limitless possibilities of the imagination. From dystopian futures and interstellar voyages to mind-bending paradoxes and encounters with the unknown, these stories explore the deepest questions of humanity, technology, and existence.

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Best Solo Narration Award at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020. This Penguin Classic is performed by the critically acclaimed actor David Harewood, one of the stars of the television series Homeland. Harewood is also known for his roles in...

In one of H. G. Wells' most celebrated works, the shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself alone on an island with the mad scientist Doctor Moreau. When he hears strange cries echoing through the forest, he discovers that the island is inhabited by bizarre human-hybrid creatures. Prendick must escape the island before he becomes the scientist's next victim Raising questions about morality, the hubris of science, and what it means to be human, The Island of Doctor Moreau has fascinated readers for generations.

The Time Machine: A brilliant Victorian scientist travels to the astonishing year 802,701 AD. What initially appears to be a paradise inhabited by the peaceful and beautiful Eloi soon reveals a terrifying reality. Following the mysterious theft of his invention, the Traveler discovers the Morlocks, monstrous subterranean creatures who breed the surface-dwellers as livestock. Trapped in this divided future, he must fight tenaciously for his survival and recover his only means of escape before witnessing the freezing twilight of Earth.

'ดินแดนคนตาบอด' เล่าเรื่องชายคนหนึ่งที่พลัดหลงเข้าไปยังดินแดนที่มีแต่คนตาบอด...

This collection brings together H. G. Wells' first novel with a selection of his most fantastic stories. Including classics such as 'The Country of the Blind' and 'The Door in the Wall', this unmissable assortment of one of Britain's most talented writers is sure to fascinate and entertain. It contains stories ranging from the optimism of magnificent discoveries in 'The Time Machine' to the pessimism of the dangers science presents in 'The Stolen Bacillus'. The stories are as powerful and meaningful today as when they were first published more than a century ago.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Mr. Bessel, a respectable London businessman with a passion for psychic research, resolves to prove that the human spirit can leave its body at will. One November evening, he succeeds — projecting his consciousness out of his flesh to appear before a...

No one believed the invasion would come from Mars—until the first cylinder fell on Horsell Common. When strange objects begin crashing into the English countryside, curious onlookers gather to witness what appears to be an extraordinary astronomical event. Then the cylinders open. The beings...

Edward Prendick thinks he's been saved when he is found adrift after shipwreck. But he soon finds himself exposed to fresh horrors as his journey takes him to the Island of Dr Moreau! Shunned by society, Moreau and his assistant Montgomery perform acts of cruel surgery on animals and populate...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When Captain Gerilleau is ordered to sail deep into the Amazon jungle to confront a mysterious ant plague, he considers it a ridiculous mission. What threat could mere insects pose? But as his ship ventures further, it becomes clear that this is no...

Shipwrecked traveller Edward Prendick finds himself an unwilling and unwanted guest on a remote volcanic island, home of the infamous Dr Moreau and his colleague Montgomery, and populated by a variety of strange and repellant people. Soon, Prendick comes to understand the full extent of Moreau's...

What if a deadly poison was the only cure for a broken life? Mr. Coombes is a henpecked shopkeeper pushed to the absolute brink of despair by his ungrateful wife. Fleeing into the damp pine woods, he contemplates a dark, watery end to his miserable existence - until a strange, eerie object...

A terrifying leap into the fourth dimension... or an elaborate, impossible lie? With a blinding flash and a deafening report, quiet schoolmaster Gottfried Plattner is erased from existence. Nine days later, he violently materializes out of thin air - dishevelled, bloodied, and bearing a...

What if London’s heaviest man weighed absolutely nothing? In this brilliantly bizarre, darkly comedic tale by H.G. Wells, an annoyed gentleman named Formalyn is relentlessly badgered by Pyecraft - the most monstrously obese, insufferable clubman in London. Desperate to escape his massive size...

An ancient city. A perfect stranger. A single word that ruins everything. For the deeply refined Miss Winchelsea, a dream voyage to Rome is supposed to be an escape into art and poetry. Instead, amidst the sun-drenched, cypress-shadowed ruins of the Colosseum, she falls under the spell of a...

What if your eyes were ripped from your body and cast eight thousand miles away? During a violent London thunderstorm, a freak laboratory accident tears a rupture in reality. A blinding flash of lightning strikes a powerful electro-magnet, and in that split second, Sidney Davidson’s sight is...