The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

The final installment in Penguin Classics’s landmark H. G. Wells series Although best known for his novels, it was in his early short fiction that H. G. Wells first explored the relationship between the fantastical and everyday. Here horror meets humor, man-eating squids invade the sleepy Devon coast, and strange kinks and portals in space and time lead to other worlds—a marvelous literary universe showcasing the author’s fascination with the wonders and perils of scientific progress.

H. G. Wells (1866-û1946) is one of the founding voices of visionary science fiction.
Patrick Parrinder has written on H. G. Wells, science fiction, James Joyce, and the history of the English novel.
Neil Gaiman is the award-winning creator of the Sandman series of graphic novels and the bestselling author of such novels as Anansi Boys, American Gods, and Neverwhere.