The Island of Doctor Moreau

A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped creatures move in the gloom. In this island paradise, the horrific experiments of the infamous Doctor Moreau will reach their inevitable conclusion.

"A grisly Darwinian heart-of-darkness fantasy." —Daily Telegraph

"A master writer." —Guardian

"The Island of Doctor Moreau is one of those books that, once read, is rarely forgotten." —Margaret Atwood

"A dark and sinister fable about science versus nature. Beware the House of Pain!" —Times

"A lurid Darwinian nightmare . . . pushes unnervingly at the boundaries of what it is to be human and still reads as freshly as when it was first published." —Evening Standard