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Hello, I'm Tim.
I've got a science fiction story for you today about some strange activities on a remote island where some odd-looking creatures live.
We'd better get started.
The story is about an upper-class man called Prendic, who has been shipwrecked.
A passing ship rescues him, and he is looked after by a doctor called Montgomery.
who is travelling with a cargo of animals to an unnamed island.
When they get there, an unfriendly man called Dr Morrow reluctantly allows Prendick to stay.
Prendick is curious about the research Dr Morrow is doing with the animals on the island.
One day he hears a puma which the doctor is experimenting on, cry with pain.
He goes to investigate and he comes across a group of bizarre-looking creatures who look almost like humans.
Strange.
He questions Montgomery about this the next day, but he cannot get a straight answer.
Next morning, he's even more curious about what he has seen.
With bated breath, he goes into one of Dr.
Moro's animal enclosures and discovers a strange half-human half-beast lying in bandages.