Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century

Introduction: The First Century of Science Fiction - essay by Isaac Asimov

The Sandman - novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)

The Mortal Immortal - short story by Mary Shelley

A Descent Into the Maelstrom - short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of A Descent Into the Maelström)

Rappaccini's Daughter - novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Clock That Went Backwards - short story by Edward Page Mitchell

Into the Sun - short story by Robert Duncan Milne

A Tale of Negative Gravity - novelette by Frank R. Stockton

The Horla, or Modern Ghosts - novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)

The Shapes - novelette by J. H. Rosny aîné (trans. of Les Xipéhuz)

To Whom This May Come - short story by Edward Bellamy

The Great Keinplatz Experiment - short story by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the Abyss - short story by H. G. Wells

The Thames Valley Catastrophe - short story by Grant Allen

The Lizard - short story by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

A Thousand Deaths - short story by Jack London