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Englishman Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on the open ocean. When a passing ship takes him aboard and revives him, things are starting to look less gloomy for the young scientist. Yet little does he know things about to get much worse. He is taken to an abandoned island occupied only by Dr. Moreau, a disgraced English scientist for his unethical treatment of live creatures. Prendick finds that the Doctor has been up to old habits, using...
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A trio of vicious World War One veterans descend on the farm in the Adirondack mountains where one of them grew up and his father now lives alone. They happily embark on wreaking drunken havoc at the old man's place and in the nearby town. But when a naive mail-order bride arrives, she ignites a tinderbox of resentment, lust and betrayal among the men that explodes into brutal depravity, bloody violence and shocking death. - back cover