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The Island of Doctor Moreau: The Mark of the Beast (part 2 of 2)

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Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.96K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The secret of the island is out, and Doctor Moreau is close to his greatest achievement. Will Edward Pendrick make it home, and, if he manages to get away from the island of horrors, what sort of man will he be when he returns?

Adapted from "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H.G. Wells.

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0:00.0

Now that everything was out in the open, Pendrick could start piecing things together.

0:17.2

Montgomery was freer in his talk with Pendrick and talk he did.

0:21.6

The leopard man was the one that went after Pendrick that one night.

0:25.6

He was a problem.

0:27.6

Like Moreau had said, some of the beast folk were slipping.

0:32.6

The reason they didn't slip all the way was, well, Moreau.

0:43.9

He is a god to them, and for all intents and purposes, Montgomery took another swig of brandy,

0:53.2

he is. He made them. He is all-powerful. The man's a genius, and the beast folk are not that,

0:56.7

not yet. We have high hopes for the Puma, though.

1:03.5

And Maling here. Maling brought in a slightly overcooked rabbit and some potatoes. That religious awe you saw in the beast folk? Montgomery tore into the rabbit. That wasn't an accident. Montgomery

1:10.3

came up with those chance.

1:12.6

If they could keep the beastfolk from crawling on all fours and chasing stuff and blood,

1:17.3

oh man, the blood, they get one taste of it. Pendrick asked about the weird little volleyball things,

1:26.5

the small monstrosities with the tiny teeth.

1:30.0

Montgomery nodded, yeah, those were kind of practices.

1:34.2

Also, the beast folk could have children, though they didn't usually tend to live too long.

1:39.0

When Montgomery could snag one, Moreau would shape the child into something resembling a human. For some reason,

1:45.9

the beastful hid their young, though. Who knows why? Moing was the most docile and human-looking,

1:52.2

the closest to a success. Over the next several days, any time Pendrick ventured out of the enclosure,

1:59.5

he couldn't help but study the people, if they could be called that.

2:04.7

The humanity in their faces, no matter how strong, couldn't hide the mark of the beast.

2:12.6

Some, though, it was uncanny.

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