H.G.WELLS (1866-1946) was much more than a creator of brilliant scientific speculations such as "The Machine of Time" (1895) or "The War of the Worlds" (1898) whose echo reaches to this day. He was also a man concerned with the evolution of human society and a great narrator of fables who face the reader with situations and characters in deep moral dilemmas.
This volume brings together three of these fables in which horror arises when man stubbornly in breaking the laws of nature. The island of Dr. Moreau (1896) and the invisible man (1897) belong to the genre of "Mad Doctors" or "crazy scientists" and perfectly illustrate the Goyesca idea that the dreams of reason produce monsters.

In the first, a shipwrecked tells us how he met Dr. Moreau, an illuminated physiologist who experiences with animals in a lost islet. In the second, a physique discovers an optical property that makes invisible to that which ingests a certain substance. The third, the Croquet player (1936), is an allegorical story that tells the apparent collective crazing of the inhabitants of a swampy zone with a disturbing past.

«Not only is what these fantasies of Wells refer; It is also symbolic of processes that are somehow inherent to all human destinations. The harassed invisible man who has to sleep as with his eyes open because his eyelids do not exclude light is our loneliness and terror; The convent of seated monsters that gangered on its night a servile creed is the Vatican and is Lhasa. And in "The Croquet player", which describes a pestilencial region of confusing swamps in which abominable things begin to happen, we understand that this region is the entire planet, "Borges said with his usual lucidity about these three unforgettable stories.