Amazing Stories, April 1926

# Catalog Description

Amazing Stories, April 1926, is a specialized fiction magazine dedicated to "scientifiction"—stories blending scientific fact with imaginative narrative. The issue contains six featured works: Jules Verne's "Off on a Comet," depicting characters transported to space near Saturn; H.G. Wells's "The New Accelerator," concerning a substance altering time perception; G. Peyton Wertenbaker's "The Man From the Atom"; George Allen England's "The Thing From—Outside"; Austin Hall's "The Man Who Saved the Earth"; and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar," a psychological horror tale. The magazine includes an editorial by Hugo Gernsback defining scientifiction as pioneering American literature combining romantic narrative with scientific speculation, citing Poe, Verne, and Wells as foundational authors whose predictions often anticipated real inventions.