About Time

This anthology collects early fifteen stories (1819-1916) that demonstrate time travel time shifts and other temporal tampering before the golden age of science fiction took time travel stories to heart. Stories include the well-known and sometimes overlooked: Rip Van Winkle Peter Rugg Missing One's Coach A Christmas Carol A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (Poe) The Clock that Went Backward An Uncommon Sort of Spectre (Mitchell) Newton's Brain The New Accelerator (H. G. Wells) Wireless (Kipling) The Hour-Glass John Bartine's Watch (Bierce) Phantas (Oliver Onions) Accessory Before the Fact (Algernon Blackwood) and Enoch Soames. This is a useful collection for those investigating the early history of time travel fiction.