Five extraordinary stories take you from bizarre scientific experiments and impossible disappearances to cosmic mysteries, ancient secrets, and an invention that could change the way we see the world.
An Adventure of a Professional Corpse: The Artificial Honeymoon — H. Bedford-Jones
An unusual profession leads to an even more unusual assignment in this inventive tale from one of the most prolific writers of his era. What begins with a peculiar proposition quickly develops into an adventure where appearances can be dangerously misleading.
The Shadow and the Flash — Jack London
Two brilliant rivals become obsessed with the same seemingly impossible goal: invisibility. Each pursues a radically different scientific solution, but their lifelong competition grows increasingly dangerous as success finally appears within reach.
The Unnamable — H. P. Lovecraft
Two men debate whether anything can truly be so horrifying that words cannot describe it. Sitting beside an old cemetery as darkness falls, their philosophical argument becomes terrifyingly real when something associated with a sinister local legend refuses to remain in the past.
Exile of the Eons — Arthur C. Clarke
Across immense reaches of time, Clarke turns humanity’s distant future into the setting for a remarkable speculative journey. Civilization, survival, and the staggering scale of the universe converge in a story that looks far beyond the boundaries of an ordinary human lifetime.
The Crystal Man — Edward Page Mitchell
First published in 1906, this early tale explores the startling possibilities of science decades before many of its ideas became familiar territory in science fiction. An extraordinary discovery challenges what seems physically possible and demonstrates just how imaginative the genre had become at the beginning of the twentieth century.
