Twelve Stories and a Dream

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Twelve Stories and a Dream Author: H. G. Wells Release Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #1743] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM *** Produced by Aaron Cannon, Stephanie Johnson, and David Widger TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM By H. G. Wells Contents 1. FILMER 2. THE MAGIC SHOP 3. THE VALLEY OF SPIDERS 4. THE TRUTH ABOUT PYECRAFT 5. MR. SKELMERSDALE IN FAIRYLAND 6. THE STORY OF THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST 7. JIMMY GOGGLES THE GOD 8. THE NEW ACCELERATOR 9. MR. LEDBETTER'S VACATION 10. THE STOLEN BODY 11. MR. BRISHER'S TREASURE 12. MISS WINCHELSEA'S HEART 13. A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON 1. FILMER In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men—this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work. But the inexorable injustice of the popular mind has decided that of all these thousands, one man, and that a man who never flew, should be chosen as the discoverer, just as it has chosen to honour Watt as the discoverer of steam and Stephenson of the steam-engine.