Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911

29 marvelous tales, many anthologized here for the first time, by such masters as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson and others, written for the discriminating science fiction fan of the Mauve Decade and the early 1900s.Contents:CATASTROPHESTHE THAMES VALLEY CATASTROPHE by Grant Allen (The Strand Magazine, December 1897)THE DOOM OF LONDON by Robert Barr (The Idler, November 1892)A CORNER IN LIGHTNING by George Griffith (Pearson's Magazine, March 1898)THE TILTING ISLAND by Thomas J. Vivian and Grena J. Bennett (Everybody's Magazine, September 1909)FINIS by Frank Lillie Pollock (The Argosy, June 1906) MARVELOUS INVENTIONSAN EXPRESS OF THE FUTURE by Jules Verne (The Strand Magazine, January 1895)THE RAY OF DISPLACEMENT by Harriet Prescott Spofford (The Metropolitan Magazine, October 1903)CONGEALING THE ICE TRUST by Capt. H. G. Bishop, USA (The New Broadway Magazine, December 1907)LORD BEDEN'S MOTOR by J. B. Harris-Burland (The Strand Magazine, December 1901) MONSTERS AND HORRORSTHE DEATH-TRAP by George Daulton (Pearson's Magazine, March 1908)THE AIR SERPENT by Will A. Page (The Red Book Magazine, April 1911)THE MONSTER OF LAKE LAMETRIE by Wardon Allan Curtis (Pearson's Magazine, September 1899)THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT by William Hope Hodgson (The Blue Book Magazine, November 1907) FUTURE WARTHE LAND IRONCLADS by H. G. Wells (The Strand Magazine, January 1904)THE DAM by Hugh S. Johnson (The Red Book Magazine, April 1911)SUBMARINED by Walter Wood (Pearson's Magazine, February 1905) MAN-EATING PLANTSTHE PURPLE TERROR by Fred M. White (The Strand Magazine, September 1899)PROFESSOR JONKIN'S CANNIBAL PLANT by Howard R. Garis (The Argosy, August 1905) FAR-OUT HUMORAN EXPERIMENT IN GYRO HATS by Ellis Parker Butler (Hampton's Magazine, June 1910)THE HYBRID HYPERBOREAN ANT by Roy L. McCardell (Hampton's Magazine, December 1910) SCIENTIFIC CRIME AND DETECTIONWHERE THE AIR QUIVERED by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace (The Strand Magazine, December 1898)IN RE STATE VS. FORBES by Warren Earle (The Black Cat, July 1906) MEDICAL MIRACLESOLD DOCTOR RUTHERFORD by D. F. Hannigan (The Ludgate Monthly, September 1891)ITSELF by Edgar Mayhew Bacon (The Black Cat, May 1907) ADVENTURES IN PSYCHOLOGYCITIZEN 504 by Charles H. Palmer (The Argosy, December 1896)THE MANSION OF FORGETFULNESS by Don Mark Lemon (The Black Cat, April 1907)