Tres fantasías góticas

This volume brings together three of these fables in which horror arises when man persists in breaking the laws of nature. "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896) and "The Invisible Man" (1897) belong to the genre of "mad doctors" or "mad scientists" and perfectly illustrate the Goya idea that the dreams of reason produce monsters. In the first, a castaway tells us how he met Dr. Moreau, an enlightened physiologist who experiments with animals on a lost islet. In the second, a physicist discovers an optical property that makes someone who ingests a certain substance invisible. The third, "The Croquet Player" (1936), is an allegorical story that tells the apparent collective madness of the inhabitants of a swampy area with a disturbing past.