The Colour Out of Space

Cylinders fall from the sky and Martian war machines march across the English countryside, burning everything in their path. Wells's 1898 novel invented the alien invasion story and still grips from the first page.

H. G. Wells

A scientific expedition to Antarctica uncovers a vast city built by beings that ruled the Earth long before humans. Lovecraft's most ambitious novella blends polar adventure with alien horror.

H. P. Lovecraft

A professor trades letters with a farmer who claims winged beings from another planet are hiding in the hills of Vermont. A slow-burn story of alien contact told through letters, recordings and growing dread.

H. P. Lovecraft

A professor loses five years of his life, and his dreams suggest an alien mind lived in his body while his own was sent millions of years into the past. Lovecraft at his most science fictional.

H. P. Lovecraft

A recluse in a remote house fights off pig-like creatures from a pit, then drifts across time to watch the death of the solar system. Hodgson's strange novel opened the door to cosmic and alien horror.

William Hope Hodgson