The Story of Miss Moppet

Children’s story about teasing, featuring a kitten and a mouse. Written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, it was published by Frederick Warne & Sons for the 1906 Christmas season.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Children’s book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, following the mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor.

The Truth About Pyecraft

Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1903, about a fat man who loses so much weight that he begins to float.

The Stolen Body

Short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1898, about two paranormal researchers one of whom loses his body to an evil spirit.

In the Abyss

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in the August 1896 edition of Pearson’s Magazine. It tells of a descent to the deep ocean bed and an encounter with a previously unknown undersea civilisation.

The Lancashire Witches

Novel by William Harrison Ainsworth, first published in 1848. Based on the true story of the Pendle witches, it is the only one of his forty novels that has never been out of print.

The Lord of the Dynamos

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894. It concerns a stoker employed at the Camberwell electric railway workshops who becomes convinced that a large dynamo is a deity, and kills his superior in a religious frenzy.

Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation

Short story by H. G. Wells about a schoolmaster who, to prove his courage to himself, burgles a house while on holiday, leading him into a strange adventure.

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894. A collector of orchids grows an unknown species which develops aerial rootlets that attach themselves to his skin and suck his blood.