Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Walter Sickert, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Odilon Redon. Stories in which the ordinary world gives way: a man who can work miracles, a door in a wall that is not always there, a stolen body, an experiment in time. Wells wrote these short pieces in the 1890s and early 1900s, at the same time as the great romances. Several of them are better than the novels and all of them are quicker. Fifty-nine plates, among them Sickert and Menzel, trace the same threshold between the everyday and the strange, from a Dieppe arcade to a travelling circus.