Theme: the unknown
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Risk
We are about to pay a visit to the very bottom of the crater. Others have done it and did not perish from that course. "That, however, is not the whol...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Encounter
It swam crossways in the direction of the _Nautilus_ with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather fee...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depths of Discovery
We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the _Nautilus_ then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,2...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Scientific Inquiry
What would become of us?" "Don't be alarmed at the heat, my boy." "How so?" "Neither you nor anybody else know anything about the real state of the ea...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Conflict of Knowledge
My uncle had completely defeated me with his scientific arguments. Nevertheless, I had still one hope, and that was, when once we were at the bottom o...
The War of the Worlds / Martian Physiology
They were huge round bodies—or, rather, heads—about four feet in diameter, each body having in front of it a face. This face had no nostrils—indeed, t...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Technological Terror
Just then a bubbling began at the back of this strange thing (which was evidently propelled by a screw), and it began to move. We had only just time t...
Dracula / Imminent Tension
Mate getting very impatient with them; feared some trouble ahead. * * * * * On 17 July, yesterday, one of the men, Olgaren, came to my cabin, and in a...
The War of the Worlds / Alien Encounter
Something was moving to and fro there, very quietly; every now and then it tapped against the wall, or started on its movements with a faint metallic ...
The War of the Worlds / Uncanny Encounter
It worried at the catch for a minute, perhaps, and then the door opened. In the darkness I could just see the thing—like an elephant’s trunk more than...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Mysteries
“No,” replied the Canadian; “for this is whole, and the other had lost its tail.” “That is no reason,” I replied. “The arms and tails of these animals...
The War of the Worlds / Encounters with the Unknown
But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks—like eye...