Fictional story elements introduced in the 1890s

Ruritania is a fictional country, originally located in Central Europe as a setting for a trilogy of novels by Anthony Hope, beginning with The Prisoner of Zenda (1894). Nowadays, the term connotes a quaint minor European country or is used as a placeholder name for an unspecified country in academic discussions. The first known use of the demonym Ruritanian was in 1896.

fictional castle in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula

fictional machine from Wells "The War of the Worlds"