
A shipwreck on the Pacific leaves a lone survivor adrift, clutching only a few stale biscuits and a shattered sense of reality. As the storm‑tossed dinghy drifts, his mind teeters between the horror of the wreck and the strange, distant memory of a vanished schooner called the Ipecacuanha. When he finally washes ashore on a remote volcanic isle, the island’s silence is broken only by the cries of exotic animals and the unsettling rustle of unseen creatures.
There, the survivor discovers a hidden laboratory run by a reclusive scientist who is reshaping the natural order, stitching together the bodies of beasts and men. The island becomes a stage for unsettling experiments, moral dilemmas, and a clash between primal instinct and fragile humanity. Listeners are drawn into the uneasy tension of a world where the line between animal and human is being deliberately erased.
Language
en
Duration
~4 hours (240K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Judith Boss and Andrew Sly
Release date
2004-10-14
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1866–1946
Best known for imagining time travel, alien invasion, and invisible men, this pioneering English writer helped shape modern science fiction. His stories are thrilling on the surface, but they also question class, power, progress, and the future of humanity.
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