The Island of Dr. Moreau

A cautionary tale of the horrors that can ensue when man experiments with nature, from the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells.

A lonely island in the Pacific. The sinister scientist who rules it. And the strange beings who dwell there....

This is the scenario for H. G. Wells’s haunting classic, one of his most intriguing and visionary novels. Living in the late nineteenth century and facing the impact of Darwin’s theory of evolution, Wells wrote this chilling masterpiece about the chara...