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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

The WABAC Machine

The WABAC Machine

Join Sherman and Mr. Peabody and set the dial for at least 100 years ago.

For this challenge, read science fiction, fantasy, and horror published in 1919 or before. There's a lot out there, and if you read Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle as a kid, it is worth revisiting. On the pulp side, there is the early Edgar Rice Burroughs. For sheer weirdness, try L. Frank Baum. And the 19th and early 20th century remains the high point for horror fiction --M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen. Choose a classic or search out a hidden gem.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2019 – December 2019

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Sherman = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Mr. Peabody = 6 books + 2 reviews
 John Carter = 9 books + 3 reviews
 Captain Nemo = 12 books + 6 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.

charlesdee

charlesdee

After-Supper Ghost Stories:  and Other Tales
The Beetle:  A Mystery
The Diamond Lens and Other Stories
A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
The New Annotated Dracula
The Thousand and One Ghosts
crooow

crooow

3
2
1
daxxh

daxxh

The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer
Before Adam
The Castle of Otranto:  A Story - Translated by William Marshal, Gent.
Herland
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Thousand and One Ghosts
devilinlaw

devilinlaw

Dracula
The Invisible Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Time Machine
The Turn of the Screw
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Boats of the Glen Carrig
The House of the Seven Gables
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poison Belt
The Tempest
FKatterjohn

FKatterjohn

Allan Quatermain
Allan's Wife and Other Tales
Child of Storm
3
2
1
gallyangel

gallyangel

A Christmas Carol
The Feast of Bacchus
A Modern Utopia
Powers of Darkness:  The Lost Version of Dracula
The Self-Propelled Island
The Turn of the Screw
Gonzalo516

Gonzalo516

12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Hneite

Hneite

Aleriel:  or, A Voyage to Other Worlds
The Castle in Transylvania
A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
Flatland:  A Romance of Many Dimensions
A Ghost Story
In the Year 2889
The Iron Heel
The Master of the World
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
A Princess of Mars
The Scarlet Plague
The Sphinx of the Ice Realm
MaggieK

MaggieK

The House of the Seven Gables
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Lost Princess of Oz
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Tempest
Uncle Silas
The Worm Ouroboros
1
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

3
2
1
Slinkyboy

Slinkyboy

The Citadel of Fear
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
The Hill of Dreams
The Man Who Was Thursday:  A Nightmare
Queen Sheba's Ring
The Story of the Glittering Plain:  Which Has Also Been Called The Land of Living Men
Weesam

Weesam

After London:  or, Wild England
At the Back of the North Wind
Erewhon:  Over the Range
Journey to the Center of the Earth
King Solomon's Mines
Looking Backward, 2000-1887
The Moon Pool
The Poison Belt
The Shape of Things to Come
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Uncle Silas
The Water-Babies