Written by H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells) - Audio book performed by James Adams - Unabridged Fiction - 5 LIBRARY EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 5.6 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (July 2009)

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The evil experiment of the demented scientist, Griffin, holds his countrymen in his power, but the scientist crumbles under his own evil plot in this chilling nightmare of believable horror. The result is a masterwork: a dazzling display of the unbridled imagination, psychological insight, and literary genius that made H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells) one of the most influential writers of his time.

On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why does he disguise himself in this manner and keep himself hidden away in his room?

Aroused by trepidation and curiosity, the local villagers bring it upon themselves to find the answers. What they discover is a man trapped in a terror of his own creation, and a chilling reflection of the unsolvable mysteries of their own souls.

In the tradition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein comes another undisputed classic of science fiction and horror to stir the imagination and conscience.

About the Author: HERBERT GEORGE WELLS (1866-1946), born in Bromley, Kent, England, was apprenticed to a dry goodsman and a druggist before he made his way to the Royal College of Science where he studied biology. The first great writer of science fiction, he was also a prophet, journalist, and spokesman for progress. Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.