Time travel stories date back to the 1700s. This anthology collects some of the earliest short stories that explore the fascinating subject of time through fantasy and science fiction. The 15 time travel stories here include popular classics and rarely-seen gems. This enjoyable collection is for the science fiction enthusiast who wants to investigate the roots of time travel, time slips, and other temporal anomalies.
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Rip Van Winkle (1819), Washington Irving
- Peter Rugg, the Missing Man (1824), William Austin
- An Anachronism, or Missing One’s Coach (1838), Anonymous
- A Christmas Carol in Prose (1843), Charles Dickens
- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844), Edgar Allan Poe
- An Uncommon Sort of Spectre (1879), Edward Page Mitchell
- The Clock That Went Backward (1881), Edward Page Mitchell
- Newton’s Brain (1892), Jakub Arbes
- John Bartine’s Watch (1893), Ambrose Bierce
- The Hour-Glass (1898), Robert Barr
- The New Accelerator (1901), H. G. Wells
- “Wireless” (1902), Rudyard Kipling
- Phantas (1910), Oliver Onions
- Accessory Before the Fact (1914), Algernon Blackwood
- Enoch Soames (1916), Max Beerbohm
