![]() Here the doctor works without restraints, accountability, or moral guidance, performing gruesome, cruel experiments designed to transform animals into humans. Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist, has fled to the island from England after his experiments in vivisection were exposed. Stranded on a remote, uncharted island, Prendick is nursed back to health after his ordeal at sea only to discover he has washed up on an isle of horrors. Originally published in 1896, Wells’s novel chronicles the story of the shipwrecked Englishman Edward Prendick. This month’s cover art, created by contemporary English printmaker and illustrator Kate Gibb―known for her colorful, detailed screen-printed artwork developed for musicians and fashion designers―was first featured on another cover, the 2005 reissue of a classic work of early horror and science-fiction, The Island of Doctor Moreau by English writer H.G. ![]() Digital image used with permission of the artist. Silkscreen by hand on paper, 19.7 in × 27.6 in/50 cm × 70 cm. Kate Gibb (1972–), The Island of Doctor Moreau, 2006. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |