Short Stories About Mad Scientists: The classic Sci Fi stories that created the mad scientist character

by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, M R James

Overview

Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and notions come from these darker impulses. Their thoughts become muddled, their path more for themselves than for us.

In this volume our classic authors including Jack London, H P Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, M R James, Edward Page Mitchell and many others bring a whole raft of experiences to stories that are fraught with consequences, for them, for us, perhaps for both.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803546544
Publisher:	Copyright Group
Publication date:	01/01/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	162
File size:	251 KB

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.