The Shadow Out of Time

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 meteorite lands on a remote farm and leaves behind a color no human eye has seen, one that slowly poisons the land and the family living on it. Lovecraft's favorite of his own stories.

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 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