The Stolen Bacillus
by H. G. Wells
The Stolen Scepter and Other Events is a collection of fifteen fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the British writer H. G. Wells between 1893 and 1895. It was first published by Methuen & Co. in 1895 and was Wells' first book of short stories. All these stories were first published in various weekly and monthly periodicals. (source: Wikipedia)