H. G. Wells 2 hr 36 min read

Shipwrecked Edward Prendick washes up on a remote island where the sinister Doctor Moreau, by horrific surgery, is carving beasts into the semblance of men, creatures who strain, always, to revert.

H. G. Wells's 1896 novel is a foundational classic of science fiction and horror. Chilling, profound, unforgettable. Read it for one of Wells's darkest masterpieces, a nightmare of vivisection, the Beast Folk, and the thin, fragile line between human and animal, a savage parable of science, cruelty, and the reversion lurking within us all.

In its time

Published in 1896, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 36 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).