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• 11 • Introduction (Tales of Wonder) • essay by Frank Wells
• 19 • Into the Abyss • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 39 • Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 58 • The Triumphs of a Taxidermist • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 63 • In the Avu Observatory • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 72 • The Flowering of the Strange Orchid • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 82 •
  Æpyornis Island^?Aepyornis Island
  • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 96 • The Sea Raiders • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Sea-Raiders)
• 109 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 120 • The Purple Pileus • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 134 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 148 • A Vision of Judgment • (1911) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of A Vision of Judgement 1899)
• 155 • The Valley of Spiders • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 169 • The Truth of Pyecraft • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Truth About Pyecraft 1903)
• 182 • The Magic Shop • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 195 • The Empire of the Ants • (1905) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 215 • The Country of the Blind • (1904) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 245 • The Beautiful Suit • non-genre • (1909) • short story by H. G. Wells