ANN VERONICA

THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON

The gripping tale of man's first journey to the moon, undertaken by one Mr. Bedford, a bankrupt businessman, and the eccentric scientist Mr. Cavor. Here they discover a sophisticated civilization, dominated by an insectlike race they call the Selenites.

THE INVISIBLE MAN

A young scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility feels initial joy at his newfound freedoms and abilities. But it quickly turns to despair when he realizes the many things he has sacrificed in the pursuit of science. While he struggles to create the formula that will restore his visibility and his connection to other people, murder and mayhem ensue.

THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU

Edward Prendick, a naturalist, is shipwrecked on the island retreat of notorious vivisector, Dr Moreau. In a laboratory called the House of Pain, Moreau manufactures 'humanised' animals known as the Beast People, whom he controls through fear - until the terrifying day when one of his degraded victims turns against him.

THE SLEEPER AWAKES

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. When he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover a hierarchal society in which more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.

THE TIME MACHINE

When a Victorian scientist invents a machine that allows him to travel to the year A.D. 802,701, he encounters a highly evolved society of people called Eloi, and the brutish Morlocks who lurk in tunnels beneath them. His discovery leads him to a horrifying insight into the fate of mankind.

WAR OF THE WORLDS

H. G. Wells' classic vision of interplanetary warfare and a Martian invasion of Earth, and the resulting panic and destruction.