Wells tells a good story but I also think he uses his story as vehicle for exploring a number of big issues. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however – and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge. Forced from the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend, Kemp. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin – the new guest at The Coach and Horses – is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. Below is the blurb from the Penguin Classics edition (2005) of the novel to remind or introduce you to the story’s premise: However, apart from the fact it is a really good read, I think a case can be made for it also being a psychological crime narrative of sorts, which tracks the journey one man takes into criminality and madness, whilst pursuing a scientific experiment. I’m probably chancing my arm writing a post about Wells’ The Invisible Man (1897) on a crime fiction blog, as it is a work of science fiction.
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