Cassandra (1876) The Channel Tunnel; or, England’s ruin, London, William Clowes and Sons No further information available at present

Guthrie, T.A. (1882) The Seizure of the Channel Tunnel No further information available at this time.

Walter Wood (1907) The Tunnel Terror – attributed to Pearson’s Magazine March 1907 Set in 1920 a mistaken belief that the Germans are invading through the recently completed Channel Tunnel results in a mob blowing up the British end of the tunnel. The story is described in Everett Franklin Bleiler & Richard Bleiler’s Science-fiction, the […]

Anonymous (1882) Submarina: or Green Eyes and Blue Glasses – The Channel Tunnel. Danger to England or No Danger!, London: Yates, Alexander and Shepheard, 21 Castle Street, Holborn,E.C A strange tale, from 100 years ahead, of the debates around the danger of a channel tunnel. Extract: As to the unmitigated disastrousness of the scheme of […]

The “Demure One” [pseud.] (1882) The Battle of Boulogne: Or How Calais Became English Again: Another Version of the Channel Tunnel Affair  1882 was a significant year for the student of apocalyptic writing. It is then that more apocalyptic books were published in England than at any other single time before 1914, and it was […]

Grip (1882) How John Bull Lost London or The Capture of The Channel Tunnel – London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington A French invasion through the Channel Tunnel. Includes the Battle of Guildford and the Capture of London. Full text at: https://archive.org/details/howjohnbulllost00gripgoog

Vindex (pseudonym) England Crushed; The Secret of the Channel Tunnel Revealed: Being the Literal Translation of a Secret Despatch Recently Revised and Adopted by an August Federal Cabinet, Divulged to Vindex This was the work of a conspiracy theorist, and although it is not in the form of a fictional narrative, it carries the same […]

C. Forth (1883) The Surprise of the Channel Tunnel Little information about this other than a brief entry in Norman Longmate’s (1991) Island Fortress: The Defence of Great Britian 1606-1945: 1883, saw the publication of C. Forth’s The Surprise of the Channel Tunnel, the normal work of imaginative fiction, notable only for its ending. After the […]

F.M. Allen [pseud. of Edmund Downey] (1900) London’s Peril A plan by the French to invade through a Channel Tunnel. “Then it is understood. The secret which I possess, and which I desire to sell,” said M. Dupont, “is known to very few, and to nobody else, in all human probability, who could or would […]