The Complete Short Fiction of H.G. Wells

The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells,
edited by John R. Hammond [JRH1]

Contains 84 of the 88 short stories. Many of these are online (most frequently at eBooks@Adelaide), and I have included these links in the complete list below.

The Man with a Nose and Other Uncollected Short Stories of H.G. Wells,
edited by John R. Hammond [JRH2]

This is a subset of 22 stories from Hammond’s complete collection. It contains all of the stories from that collection that are not online yet.

Ackermanthology, 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts,
edited by Forrest J. Ackerman [FJA]

The only easy location that I’ve found for one of the four stories that are missing from Hammond: “The Final Men.”

H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction,
edited with critical commentary and notes by Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes [P&H]

Contains two early stories that are not in Hammond: “A Talk with Gryllotalpa” and “A Vision of the Past.” This collection is online at Google Books.

Fantasia Mathematica,
edited by Clifton Fadiman [CF]

Contains the final missing story, “Peter Learns Arithmetic.” Online at Google Books.

Complete Works of H.G. Wells,
Illustrated Delphi Classics Kindle edition

This appears to be the best electronic collection, including Wells’s longer fiction, The Chronic Argonauts, and at least the 84 Hammond short stories. It looks like it might also have the two Early Writings stories, too, but they have no online table of contents for me to check.

The Story List

1. “A Family Elopement” (1884) [JRH1,JRH2]
2. “A Tale of the Twentieth Century” (1887) [JRH1,JRH2]
3. “A Talk with Gryllotalpa” (1887) [P&H]
4. “A Vision of the Past” (1887) [P&H]
5. The Chronic Argonauts (1888, abandoned) [Several separate publications]
6. “The Devotee of Art” (1888) [JRH1,JRH2]
7. “The Flying Man” (aka “The Advent of the Flying Man”) (1893) [JRH1]
8. “Aepyornis Island” (1894) [JRH1]
9. “A Deal in Ostriches”(1894) [JRH1]
10. “The Diamond Maker”(1894) [JRH1]
11. “The Final Men” (1894) [FJR]
12. “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” (aka “The Strange Orchid”) (1894) [JRH1]
13. “The Hammerpond Park Burglary” (1894) [JRH1]
14. “The Lord of the Dynamos” (1894) [JRH1]
15. “How Gabriel Became Thompson” (1894) [JRH1,JRH2]
16. “In the Avu Observatory” (1894) [JRH1]
17. “In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story” (aka “A Bardlet’s Romance”) (1894) [JRH1]
18. “The Jilting of Jane” (1894) [JRH1]
19. “The Man With a Nose” (1894) [JRH1]
20. “A Misunderstood Artist” (1894) [JRH1,JRH2]
21. “Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation” (1894) (aka “Mr. Leadbetter’s Vacation”) [JRH1]
22. “The Stolen Bacillus” (1894) [JRH1]
23. “The Thing in No. 7” (1894) [JRH1,JRH2]
24. “Through a Window” (aka “At a Window”) (1894) [JRH1]
25. “The Thumbmark” (1894) [JRH1,JRH2]
26. “The Treasure in the Forest” (1894) [JRH1]
27. “The Triumphs of a Taxidermist” (1894) [JRH1]
28. “The Argonauts of the Air” (1895) [JRH1]
29. “A Catastrophe” (1895) [JRH1]
30. “The Cone” (1895) [JRH1]
31. “How Pingwill Was Routed” (aka “Routed”) (1895) [JRH1,JRH2]
32. “Le Mari Terrible” (1895) [JRH1,JRH2]
33. “The Moth” (aka “A Moth—Genus Novo”) (1895) [JRH1]
34. “Our Little Neighbour” (1895) [JRH1,JRH2]
35. “Pollock and the Porroh Man” (1895) [JRH1]
36. “The Reconciliation” (aka “The Bulla”) (1895) [JRH1]
37. “The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes” (aka “The Story of Davidson’s Eyes”) (1895) [JRH1]
38. “The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic” (aka “The Obliterated Man”) (1895) [JRH1]
39. “The Temptation of Harringay” (1895) [JRH1]
40. “Wayde’s Essence” (1895) [JRH1,JRH2]
41. “The Apple” (1896) [JRH1]
42. “In the Abyss” (1896) [JRH1]
43. “The Plattner Story” (1896) [JRH1][2]
44. “The Purple Pileus” (1896) [JRH1]
45. “The Rajah’s Treasure” (1896) [JRH1,JRH2]
46. “The Red Room” (aka “The Ghost of Fear”) (1896) [JRH1]
47. “The Sea Raiders” (1896) [JRH1]
48. “A Slip Under the Microscope” (1896) [JRH1]
49. “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham” (1896) [JRH1]
50. “Under the Knife” (aka “Slip Under the Knife”) (1896) [JRH1]
51. “The Crystal Egg” (1897) [JRH1]
52. “The Lost Inheritance” (1897) [JRH1]
53. “Mr Marshall’s Doppelganger” (1897) [JRH1,JRH2]
54. “A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels” (aka “A Perfect Gentleman”) (1897) [JRH1,JRH2]
55. “The Presence by the Fire” (1897) [JRH1,JRH2]
56. “The Star” (1897) [JRH1]
57. “A Story of the Days To Come” (1897) [JRH1]
58. “A Story of the Stone Age” (aka “Stories of the Stone Age”) (1897) [JRH1]
59. “Jimmy Goggles the God” (1898) [JRH1]
60. “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” (1898) [JRH1]
61. “Miss Winchelsea’s Heart” (1898) [JRH1]
62. “The Stolen Body” (1898) [JRH1]
63. “Walcote” (1898) [JRH1,JRH2]
64. “Mr. Brisher’s Treasure” (1899) [JRH1]
65. “A Vision of Judgment” (1899) [JRH1]
66. “A Dream of Armageddon” (1901) [JRH1]
67. “Filmer” (1901) [JRH1]
68. “Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland” (1901) [JRH1]
69. “The New Accelerator” (1901) [JRH1]
70. “The Inexperienced Ghost” (aka “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost”) (1902) [JRH1]
71. “The Loyalty of Esau Common” A Fragment (1902) [JRH1,JRH2]
72. “The Land Ironclads” (1903) [JRH1]
73. “The Magic Shop” (1903) [JRH1]
74. “The Truth About Pyecraft” (1903) [JRH1]
75. “The Valley of the Spiders” (1903) [JRH1]
76. “The Country of the Blind” (1904) [JRH1]
77. “The Empire of the Ants” (1905) [JRH1]
78. “The Door in the Wall” (1906) [JRH1]
79. “The Beautiful Suit” (aka “A Moonlight Fable”) (1909) [JRH1]
80. “Little Mother up the Morderberg” (1910) [JRH1]
81. “My First Aeroplane” (1910) [JRH1]
82. “The Story of the Last Trump” (1915) [JRH1]
83. “The Wild Asses of the Devil” (1915) [JRH1,JRH2]
84. ” Peter Learns Arithmetic” (1918) [CF]
85. “The Grisly Folk” (1921) [JRH1]
86. “The Pearl of Love” (1924) [JRH1]
87. “The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper” (1932) [JRH1,JRH2]
88. “Answer to Prayer” (1937) [JRH1,JRH2]
89. “The Country of the Blind” (revised, 1939) [JRH1,JRH2]. I haven’t found the revised version online. It’s final line is ...“but it must be very terrible to see.”