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The Magic Shop
The Magic Shop
A Peculiar Parish Edition by H.G. Wells
36 pages
“The shopman laughed at my amazement. ‘This is the genuine magic,’ he said. ‘The real thing.’”
A mysterious shopfront appears in Edwardian London’s Regent Street, its windows brimming with sleight-of-hand marvels. Crossing over the threshold, a wonderstruck boy and his skeptical father step into an eerie world of curious delights ruled over by a most peculiar proprietor. Entering the magic shop had been easy. Finding the way out will be a different matter entirely.
First published in The Strand Magazine in 1903, H. G. Wells’ short story reminds us of the precious and fleeting nature of childlike wonder. After all, as the shopkeeper says, “It’s only the Right Sort of Boy gets through that doorway.”
H.G. Wells (1866–1946) was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels—including The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds—earned him the title, alongside Jules Verne and Amazing Stories editor Hugo Gernsback, of “The Father of Science Fiction."
A Peculiar Parish Edition by H.G. Wells
36 pages
“The shopman laughed at my amazement. ‘This is the genuine magic,’ he said. ‘The real thing.’”
A mysterious shopfront appears in Edwardian London’s Regent Street, its windows brimming with sleight-of-hand marvels. Crossing over the threshold, a wonderstruck boy and his skeptical father step into an eerie world of curious delights ruled over by a most peculiar proprietor. Entering the magic shop had been easy. Finding the way out will be a different matter entirely.
First published in The Strand Magazine in 1903, H. G. Wells’ short story reminds us of the precious and fleeting nature of childlike wonder. After all, as the shopkeeper says, “It’s only the Right Sort of Boy gets through that doorway.”
H.G. Wells (1866–1946) was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels—including The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds—earned him the title, alongside Jules Verne and Amazing Stories editor Hugo Gernsback, of “The Father of Science Fiction."
