A man shows up at a local inn at Iping on a snowy winter night. He is donning a long-sleeved thick coat and a pair of gloves. His face, hidden under a wide-brimmed hat, is bandaged all over. He looks like a victim of a horrible accident. He lodges at the inn and requests to be left alone. While the villagers gossip about him, the mystery man is fervently busy mixing certain chemicals in his room. He is Griffin, an unlucky scientist, who has made himself invisible and is now desperately trying to find an antidote for his invisibility. He has little idea that the hand of fate is invisibly at work against him.

The Invisible Man was first published in 1897 and has since bewitched its readers. It has been widely translated and made into films and dramas on many occasions

About the Author

H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells) was born in Kent, England on 21 September 1866. Often called the Father of Science Fic- tion, a distinction which he shares with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells was the inventor of the Plausible Impossible in science fiction, a technique of portraying incredible as cred- ible. He was a prolific writer who not only wrote sci-fi but also explored other themes in writing. His other works include social realistic fiction and books on history and politics. He authored over hundred books of which many remain extremely popular today. He died in London on 13 August 1946.