A shipwrecked man is stranded on a remote island where a renegade physiologist surgically transforms animals into grotesque half-human 'Beast Folk,' who eventually revert to savagery.
Books mentioned in The Island of Doctor Moreau (1)
L'Homme qui Rit by Victor Hugo: “Victor Hugo gives an account of them in ‘L’Homme qui Rit.’”
Books that mention The Island of Doctor Moreau (2)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: “Some music will be drawn from an abortive opera based on The Island of Doctor Moreau, whose Viennese production was canceled by the war”
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “...The First Men in the Moon, and The Island of Doctor Moreau.”