H. G. Wells: "The Stolen Body," "The Valley of Spiders," and "A Dream of Armageddon"

The October 1925 issue of Weird Tales includes a full page ad heralding the coming appearance in the unique magazine of three stories by the "great English novelist" H. G. Wells. These are reprints, not new stories, but perhaps "The Stolen Body," "The Valley of Spiders" and "A Dream of Armageddon" were hard to find in 1925 and '26, so maybe their appearance in this American magazine was a big deal. Nowadays it is easy to find these stories, but I am going to read them in their Weird Tales versions, and you can join me by clicking the links in the previous sentence. "The Stolen Body" (1898)"The Stolen Body," which first appeared in the British magazine The Strand* in 1898, is the cover story of the November 1925 issue of Weird Tales, an issue with a more professional than average looking cover illo for Farnsworth Wright's magazine. With no sexy woman and no monster and not even some kind of armed foreigner, Andrew Brosnatch's cover looks like it would fit just fine on a mainstream…