H.G. Wells 

A gothic science fiction classic about a mad scientist on a remote island with the power to create and destroy human beings

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo—a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau - a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilized world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments—with truly horrific results. 

Since its original publication in 1896, THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU has captivated readers' imaginations, standing alongside Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as one of humanity's greatest stories of the consequences of playing God.