EVERYMAN

THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU H.G. Wells

Edited by Brian Aldiss

Biological experiments turn to nightmare in the Victorian Pacific

Prendick, a naturalist, is shipwrecked on the island retreat of notorious vivisector, Dr Moreau. In a laboratory called the of Pain, Moreau manufactures ‘humanised’ animals known as the Beast People, whom he controls through fear until the terrifying day when one of his degraded victims destroys him. Prendick is then alone with the blood-thirsty survivors…

A sombre fantasy in which Wells, on the eve of the twentieth century, issues a resonant warning against scientific obsessiveness, and the Faustian pursuit of evolutionary control.

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