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• Introduction (The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells) • essay by J. R. Hammond [as by John Hammond]
• 3 • The Stolen Bacillus • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 9 • The Flowering of the Strange Orchid • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 16 • In the Avu Observatory • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 22 • The Triumphs of a Taxidermist • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 26 • A Deal in Ostriches • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 30 • Through a Window • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 37 • The Temptation of Harringay • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 42 • The Flying Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 48 • The Diamond Maker • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 54 • Aepyornis Island • (1924) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of
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  1894)
• 63 • The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 71 • The Lord of the Dynamos • non-genre • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 78 • The Hammerpond Park Burglary • non-genre • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 84 • The Moth • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 92 • The Treasure in the Forest • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 101 • The Plattner Story • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 116 • The Argonauts of the Air • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 126 • The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham)
• 139 • In the Abyss • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 152 • The Apple • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 159 • Under the Knife • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 170 • The Sea Raiders • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Sea-Raiders)
• 178 • Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 190 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 198 • The Cone • non-genre • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 207 • The Purple Pileus • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 216 • The Jilting of Jane • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 222 • In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 230 • A Catastrophe • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 237 • The Lost Inheritance • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 243 • The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 250 • A Slip Under the Microscope • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 267 • The Crystal Egg • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 281 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 290 • A Story of the Stone Age • (1899) • novella by H. G. Wells (variant of Stories of the Stone Age 1897)
• 333 • A Story of the Days to Come • (1899) • novella by H. G. Wells
• 399 • The Man Who Could Work Miracles • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 415 • Filmer • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 429 • The Magic Shop • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 438 • The Valley of Spiders • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 447 • The Truth About Pyecraft • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 456 • Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 467 • The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 477 • Jimmy Goggles the God • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 487 • The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 498 • Mr Ledbetter's Vacation • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation)
• 512 • The Stolen Body • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 525 • Mr Brisher's Treasure • (1899) • short fiction by H. G. Wells (variant of Mr. Brisher's Treasure)
• 533 • Miss Winchelsea's Heart • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 547 • A Dream of Armageddon • (1901) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 571 • The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 585 • The Empire of the Ants • (1905) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 598 • A Vision of Judgment • (1911) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of A Vision of Judgement 1899)
• 603 • The Land Ironclads • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 621 • The Beautiful Suit • non-genre • (1909) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 625 • The Pearl of Love • (1925) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 629 • The Country of the Blind • (1904) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 649 • The Reconciliation • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 655 • My First Aeroplane • [Little Mother • 1] • (1910) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 664 • Little Mother Up the Mörderberg • [Little Mother • 2] • (1910) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 673 • The Story of the Last Trump • (1915) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 684 • The Grisly Folk • (1921) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 697 • A Tale of the Twentieth Century: For Advanced Thinkers • (1887) • short fiction by H. G. Wells (variant of A Tale of the Twentieth Century)
• 701 • Walcote • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 707 • The Devotee of Art • (1888) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 717 • The Man with a Nose • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 720 • A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 729 • Wayde's Essence • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 737 • A Misunderstood Artist • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 741 • Le Mari Terrible • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 745 • The Rajah's Treasure • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 755 • The Presence by the Fire • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 760 • Mr Marshall's Doppelganger • (1897) • short fiction by H. G. Wells (variant of Mr. Marshall's Doppelganger)
• 769 • The Thing in No. 7 • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 775 • The Thumbmark • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 781 • A Family Elopement • (1894) • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 786 • Our Little Neighbour • (1895) • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 793 • How Gabriel Became Thompson • (1894) • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 802 • How Pingwill Was Routed • (1895) • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 806 • The Loyalty of Esau Common: A Fragment • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Loyalty of Esau Common 1902)
• 820 • The Wild Asses of the Devil • (1915) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 829 • Answer to Prayer • (1937) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 831 • The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper • (1932) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 846 • The Country of the Blind (Revised Version) • (1939) • novelette by H. G. Wells (variant of The Country of the Blind (revised))
• 873 • Introduction to The Country of the Blind and Other Stories • essay by H. G. Wells (variant of Introduction (The Country of the Blind and Other Stories) 1911)
• 877 • Introduction to Revised Version of "The Country of the Blind" • essay by H. G. Wells (variant of Introduction (The Country of the Blind) 1939)