The Lost World
Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a remote South American plateau where dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures still roam. What begins as a scientific quest becomes a fight for survival in a forgotten world.
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The War of the Worlds
When Martians land in England, their heat-rays and towering fighting machines lay waste to everything in their path. One narrator’s desperate flight chronicles humanity’s struggle against a superior and merciless invader.
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The Invisible Man
Scientist Griffin discovers how to make himself invisible but not how to reverse the process, and his descent into isolation, violence, and madness terrorizes a quiet rural English town.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
Shipwrecked Edward Prendick lands on a remote island where the brilliant and amoral Dr. Moreau surgically transforms animals into human-like beings. What begins as scientific curiosity curdles into nightmare.
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The Time Machine
A Victorian inventor travels more than eight hundred thousand years into the future and finds humanity divided into the gentle Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. His journey grows steadily darker as he realizes the far future holds terror, not utopia.
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Flatland
A Square living in a two-dimensional world of geometric beings encounters the third dimension and struggles to imagine what lies beyond his own plane. Abbott’s mathematical satire remains a brilliant allegory of perception and social hierarchy.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and harpooner Ned Land are taken aboard the submarine Nautilus by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Their journey beneath the world’s oceans becomes a voyage of wonders and deepening peril.
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Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
Driven by ambition, young scientist Victor Frankenstein assembles a living creature from dead flesh and recoils in horror at what he has made. The Creature’s lonely quest for compassion and revenge becomes a harrowing meditation on creation, responsibility, and what truly makes a monster.
