There, the reader encounters life on the home front during German zeppelin bombardments, discovers the rampant anti-German sentiment in England at the time, and meets a plethora of soldiers from all sides. The first half of the story is loaded with the human element.

Wells is an engaging story, leaving the reader to wonder– along with the characters– if the ghosts of the opening story were real or not, even if that mystery is stretched out a little too long, pushing the mechanics of the plot to the second half and the most exciting parts to the last quarter. For all that Jane’s situation is complicated, it serves as more distraction than intrigue, taking attention away from H.G. Wells takes too much on– too many points of view, and an extra sub-plot that adds very little to the story save to give Jane Wells something to do in her country home, far from London or the front lines where the bulk of the action takes place. And so it’s frustrating that The Haunting of H.G. It is a requirement of thrillers and mysteries that they be tightly plotted, with nothing extra to slow down the action or take away focus from the primary plot. Wells passed on his own– better it should go to one of the lads about to go over the top…”

A pair of them, one holding a bucket and the other a ladle, went up and down the line, dispensing a spoonful of rum to each soldier in place. “The sight was so transfixing, the night air so refreshing compared to the stultifying atmosphere in the dugout, that he remained there, lost in thought until the dawn broke, and he became aware of the soldiers, roused by their officers to take up their positions, beginning to fix their bayonets and ready themselves for battle. Or does he? Meanwhile, back in London, Wells’s young lover Rebecca West investigates a mystery of her own, which leads her to a den of occultists and a conspiracy that could lead to England’s defeat in the war. In the trenches, Wells meets doomed soldiers and living dead men, but no ghosts. Wells to go to the front lines of WWI to find out if this strange story has any merit. After a strange story appears in newspapers about a platoon of soldiers in the trenches of France being saved from certain death by the appearance of ghosts, the British government recruits celebrated science fiction author H.G.

Selected stories of hg wells