Fred M. White 2 hr 43 min read

The editor of The Daily Chat wonders why he came in at all, thermometer at 11 degrees and falling, the first sign of the Arctic winter that will grip London in the Four White Days.

Fred M. White's 1903-04 collection gathers linked disaster tales of catastrophes befalling London. Vivid, alarmist, prophetic. Read it for a pioneering series of urban-catastrophe stories, killer cold, poisonous fog, plague, and fire, that imagined the great modern city undone by disaster, decades ahead of the genre.

In its time

Published in 1903, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 43 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Warwick Goble