No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than mansExploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanitys dreams of progress and technology H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential sciencefiction novels The Time Machine The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments terrifying journeys alien occupiers and grotesque creatures these visionary tales discomfit and disturb and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are.With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont