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

✍ Scribed by Sam Moskowitz (ed.); Grant Allen; Robert Barr; George Griffith; Thomas J. Vivian; Grena J. Bennett; Frank Lillie Pollock; Jules Verne; Harriet Prescott Spofford; H. G. Bishop; J. B. Harris-Burland; George Daulton; Will A. Page; Wardon Allan Curtis; William Hope Hodgson; H. G. Wells; Hugh S. Johnson; Walter Wood; Fred M. White; Howard R. Garis; Ellis Parker Butler; Roy L. McCardell; L. T. Meade; Robert Eustace; Warren Earle; D. F. Hannigan; Edgar Mayhew Bacon; Charles H. Palmer; Don Mark Lemon

• Book ID: 108020956
• Publisher: World Publishing
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 532 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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:

CATASTROPHES

• THE 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 INVENTIONS

• AN 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 HORRORS

• THE 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 WAR

• THE 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 PLANTS

• THE 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 HUMOR

• AN 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 DETECTION

• WHERE 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 MIRACLES

• OLD DOCTOR RUTHERFORD by D. F. Hannigan (The Ludgate Monthly, September 1891)
• ITSELF by Edgar Mayhew Bacon (The Black Cat, May 1907)

ADVENTURES IN PSYCHOLOGY

• CITIZEN 504 by Charles H. Palmer (The Argosy, December 1896)
• THE MANSION OF FORGETFULNESS by Don Mark Lemon (The Black Cat, April 1907)