6 Curiosities of The Island of Doctor Moreau

One of the last -and most Martian- films of the interpreter of 'The Godfather continues to be analyzed and is celebrated today as "too strange and too memorable to be dismissed as garbage."

Rachel Holmes
7 min readAug 4, 2023
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H.G. Wells wrote The Island of Doctor Moreau in 1896 at the same time that he was writing other of his great works.

He was very prolific, and many of his novels went unnoticed depending on the success of others.

What happened with this strange novel about genetic experiments, which was already ahead of its time?

If someone has yet to read the novel or see one of the many movies, The Island of Doctor Moreau is about a shipwrecked man who arrives on a miserable island inhabited by a scientist.

He experiments on animals to turn them into human beings.

Years later, this novel's repercussion was incredible, although many continue associating it with H.G. Wells.

More than a century has passed since he wrote this scientific horror novel, and we tell you some curiosities about The Island of Doctor Moreau.

1 — The sad origin of the novel by H.G.Wells

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