The Agonizing Resurrection Of Victor Frankenstein And Other Gothic Tales (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Wells, the mad scientist of the title is keen to transform the animals living in the region of his tropical hideaway into humans. More finely, he wishes to extract from them their bestial traits and implant in them an ideal rationality. Those animals who have been artificially evolved, although not nearly to the degree the doctor would like, speak of Moreau’s laboratory as the House of Pain. This is a suitable designation for a place where unnatural and excruciating deeds are practiced. The name not only suggests the pain of the subjects as they have reason forced upon them, it betokens the pain of reason itself, a faculty every human animal came to possess in some measure when we were transfigured long ago in nature’s laboratory—that House of Pain which remains our home to this day. To a writer of horror stories, a creature whose business is the depiction of a variety of torturous encounters, the question may arise: Why not take Wells’s story another step or two down the path of pain?
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