Harle Oren Cummins 1 hr 58 min read

A garland of tales resembling nothing so much as the creations of a disordered brain, strange, macabre, and fantastic stories born of a literary club's after-dinner cheese and imagination.

Harle Oren Cummins's 1902 collection gathers eerie proto-science-fiction and horror tales. Inventive, strange, of its era. Read it for an early American assortment of the weird and the wonderful, mad inventions, uncanny happenings, and dark fancies named for the indigestion-dreams of Welsh rarebit, a charming, little-known collection from the dawn of American science fiction.

In its time

Published in 1902, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 58 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Robert Emmett Owen