Brander Matthews 2 hr 20 min read

A garland of clever tales blending the fantastic and the everyday, from a distinguished man of letters of turn-of-the-century New York.

Brander Matthews's 1896 collection mixes fantasy and social-SF stories with the polish of a leading American critic and storyteller. Witty, urbane, engaging. Read it for well-crafted period tales that slip the strange into the ordinary streets of Manhattan, from a notable figure of nineteenth-century American letters.

In its time

Published in 1896, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).