Not content with founding pretty much every science fiction sub-genre known to humanity, H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was also a dab hand at writing fantasy and horror short stories.

A painter encounters a devilish critic in The Temptation of Harringay (1895), a sinister body-swap takes place in The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham (1896), paranormal investigators dabble in astral projection in The Stolen Body (1898), Lovecraftian beings observe us through dimensional peepholes in...