Morlock

Name: Morlock

AKA: Thing

Location: Earth - 802,701 A.D.

Novel: The Time Machine

Author: H.G. Wells





Natural History:
The Morlocks are a race of ape-like, nocturnal creatures that inhabit tunnels in the earth full of machinery.

These small creatures, perhaps four feet high, are dull white, with strange large greyish-red eyes and chinless faces. They have flaxen hair on their heads and down their backs. They can move on all fours very quickly and can nimbly climb like a spider down the large shafts that lead to their underground lair.

Thought to have evolved underground, the Morlocks' eyes are abnormally large and sensitive, just as are the pupils of the abysmal fishes, and they reflected light in the same way. In their tunnels, the smell of freshly-shed blood permeated the air - and it was found they are carnivorous!

Perhaps at one time the Morlocks fed on small beasts, such as rats, but as they grew scarce they moved on to larger and more readily available prey - the Eloi, the child-like surface dwellers. The Morlocks used them as cattle! What was once a single race, now evolved into two - with one now consuming the other!

For some reason, the Morlocks were very interested in the Time Machine and stole it. For what purposes, we do not know.

"I struck another light, and waved it in their dazzled faces. You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment." 
-The Time Traveller