EARLY SCIENCE FICTION STORIES TELL OF ROBOTS, NATURAL DISASTERS, AND INVISIBLE CREATURE, IMMORTALITY AND TIME TRAVEL. The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving—El verdugo / Honoré de Balzac—The story of the Greek slave / Captain Marryat—The iron shroud / William Mudford—Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan LeFanu—The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe—The doom of the Griffiths / Mrs. Gaskell—Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford—Torture by hope / Villiers de L'Isle-Adam—The diamond necklace / Guy de Maupassant—The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling—Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson—Sleepyhead / Anton Chekov—His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow—The gravedigger's daughter / Léopold von Sacher-Masoch—An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce—Vengeance / Lorimer Stoddard—Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin—The squaw / Bram Stoker—A dreadful night / Edwin L. Arnold—The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram—Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells—The story of the Brazilian cat / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—The dead smile / F. Marion Crawford—A game of chess / Robert Barr.