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Invisibile Man: Griffin Iping

A mysterious stranger named Griffin arrives in the village of Iping covered in bandages and strange clothing. He rents a room at the local inn and works with chemicals and laboratory equipment, baffling the townspeople. Griffin reveals to his landlady that he has become invisible, but flees when the villagers try to apprehend him. He coerces a tramp named Thomas Marvel into assisting him, but their partnership ends when Marvel betrays Griffin to the police. Griffin seeks refuge with his former acquaintance Dr. Kemp and reveals that he became invisible by inventing a drug and testing it on himself, but now plans a "Reign of Terror" over England, which Kemp foils by alerting the

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Invisibile Man: Griffin Iping

A mysterious stranger named Griffin arrives in the village of Iping covered in bandages and strange clothing. He rents a room at the local inn and works with chemicals and laboratory equipment, baffling the townspeople. Griffin reveals to his landlady that he has become invisible, but flees when the villagers try to apprehend him. He coerces a tramp named Thomas Marvel into assisting him, but their partnership ends when Marvel betrays Griffin to the police. Griffin seeks refuge with his former acquaintance Dr. Kemp and reveals that he became invisible by inventing a drug and testing it on himself, but now plans a "Reign of Terror" over England, which Kemp foils by alerting the

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INVISIBILE MAN

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A mysterious stranger, Griffin, arrives at the local inn of the English village of Iping, West Sussex,
during a snowstorm. The stranger wears a long-sleeved, thick coat and gloves, his face hidden
entirely by bandages except for a fake pink nose, and a wide-brimmed hat. He is excessively
reclusive, irascible, and unfriendly. He demands to be left alone and spends most of his time in
his rooms working with a set of chemicals and laboratory apparatus, only venturing out at night.
While staying at the inn, hundreds of strange glass bottles arrive that Griffin calls his luggage.
Many local townspeople believe this to be very strange. He becomes the talk of the village (one
of the novel's most charming aspects is its portrayal of small-town life in southern England, which
the author knew from first-hand experience).
Meanwhile, a mysterious burglary occurs in the village. Griffin has run out of money and is trying
to find a way to pay for his board and lodging. When his landlady demands he pay his bill and
quit the premises, he reveals part of his invisibility to her in a fit of pique. An attempt to
apprehend the stranger is frustrated when he undresses to take advantage of his invisibility,
fights off his would-be captors, and flees to the downs.
There Griffin coerces a tramp, Thomas Marvel, into becoming his assistant. With Marvel, he
returns to the village to recover three notebooks that contain records of his experiments. When
Marvel attempts to betray the Invisible Man to police, Griffin chases him to the seaside town
of Port Burdock, threatening to kill him. Marvel escapes to a local inn and is saved by the people
at the inn, but Griffin escapes. Marvel later goes to the police and tells them of this "invisible
man," then requests to be locked up in a high security jail.
Griffin's furious attempt to avenge his betrayal leads to his being shot. He takes shelter in a
nearby house that turns out to belong to Dr. Kemp, a former acquaintance from medical school.
To Kemp, he reveals his true identity: the Invisible Man is Griffin, a former medical student who
left medicine to devote himself to optics. Griffin recounts how he invented medicine capable of
rendering bodies invisible and, on impulse, performed the procedure on himself.
Griffin tells Kemp of the story of how he became invisible. He explains how he tried the invisibility
on a cat, then himself. Griffin burns down the boarding house he is staying in along with all his
equipment he used to turn invisible to cover his tracks, but soon realises he is ill-equipped to
survive in the open. He attempts to steal food and clothes from a large department store, and
eventually steals some clothing from a theatrical supply shop and heads to Iping to attempt to
reverse the invisibility. But now he imagines that he can make Kemp his secret confederate,
describing his plan to begin a "Reign of Terror" by using his invisibility to terrorise the nation.
Kemp has already denounced Griffin to the local authorities and is watching for help to arrive as
he listens to this wild proposal. When the authorities arrive at Kemp's house, Griffin fights his
way out and the next day leaves a note announcing that Kemp himself will be the first man to be
killed in the "Reign of Terror". Kemp, a cool-headed character, tries to organize a plan to use
himself as bait to trap the Invisible Man, but a note he sends is stolen from his servant by Griffin.
Griffin shoots and injures a local policeman who comes to Kemp's aid, then breaks into Kemp's
house. Kemp bolts for the town, where the local citizenry comes to his aid. Griffin is seized,
assaulted, and killed by a mob. The Invisible Man's naked, battered body gradually becomes
visible as he dies. A local policeman shouts to cover his face with a sheet, then the book
concludes.
In the final chapter, it is revealed that Marvel has secretly kept Griffin's notes.

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