The Invisible Man Full Text

THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVALThe stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railw...

MR. TEDDY HENFREY'S FIRST IMPRESSIONSAt four o'clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the cl...

THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLESSo it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village. Next day his luggage arri...

MR. CUSS INTERVIEWS THE STRANGERI have told the circumstances of the stranger's arrival in Iping with a certain fulness of detail, in order that the curious impression he created may be understood...

THE BURGLARY AT THE VICARAGEThe facts of the burglary at the vicarage came to us chiefly through the medium of the vicar and his wife. It occurred in the small hours of Whit Monday, the day devoted...

THE FURNITURE THAT WENT MADNow it happened that in the early hours of Whit Monday, before Millie was hunted out for the day, Mr. Hall and Mrs. Hall both rose and went noiselessly down into the cell...

THE UNVEILING OF THE STRANGERThe stranger went into the little parlour of the "Coach and Horses" about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near midday, the blinds down, the d...

IN TRANSITThe eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of mil...

MR. THOMAS MARVELYou must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccent...

MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPINGAfter the first gusty panic had spent itself Iping became argumentative. Scepticism suddenly reared its head--rather nervous scepticism, not at all assured of its back, b...

IN THE "COACH AND HORSES"Now in order clearly to understand what had happened in the inn, it is necessary to go back to the moment when Mr. Marvel first came into view of Mr. Huxter's window.At tha...

THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS TEMPERIt is unavoidable that at this point the narrative should break off again, for a certain very painful reason that will presently be apparent. While these things we...

MR. MARVEL DISCUSSES HIS RESIGNATIONWhen the dusk was gathering and Iping was just beginning to peep timorously forth again upon the shattered wreckage of its Bank Holiday, a short, thick-set man i...

AT PORT STOWETen o'clock the next morning found Mr. Marvel, unshaven, dirty, and travel-stained, sitting with the books beside him and his hands deep in his pockets, looking very weary, nervous, an...

THE MAN WHO WAS RUNNINGIn the early evening time Dr. Kemp was sitting in his study in the belvedere on the hill overlooking Burdock. It was a pleasant little room, with three windows--north, west,...

IN THE "JOLLY CRICKETERS"The "Jolly Cricketers" is just at the bottom of the hill, where the tram-lines begin. The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic...

DR. KEMP'S VISITORDr. Kemp had continued writing in his study until the shots aroused him. Crack, crack, crack, they came one after the other."Hullo!" said Dr. Kemp, putting his pen into his mouth...

THE INVISIBLE MAN SLEEPSExhausted and wounded as the Invisible Man was, he refused to accept Kemp's word that his freedom should be respected. He examined the two windows of the bedroom, drew up th...

CERTAIN FIRST PRINCIPLES"What's the matter?" asked Kemp, when the Invisible Man admitted him."Nothing," was the answer."But, confound it! The smash?""Fit of temper," said the Invisible Man. "Forgot...

AT THE HOUSE IN GREAT PORTLAND STREETFor a moment Kemp sat in silence, staring at the back of the headless figure at the window. Then he started, struck by a thought, rose, took the Invisible Man's...

IN OXFORD STREET"In going downstairs the first time I found an unexpected difficulty because I could not see my feet; indeed I stumbled twice, and there was an unaccustomed clumsiness in gripping t...

IN THE EMPORIUM"So last January, with the beginning of a snowstorm in the air about me--and if it settled on me it would betray me!--weary, cold, painful, inexpressibly wretched, and still but half...

IN DRURY LANE"But you begin now to realise," said the Invisible Man, "the full disadvantage of my condition. I had no shelter--no covering--to get clothing was to forego all my advantage, to make m...

THE PLAN THAT FAILED"But now," said Kemp, with a side glance out of the window, "what are we to do?"He moved nearer his guest as he spoke in such a manner as to prevent the possibility of a sudden...

THE HUNTING OF THE INVISIBLE MANFor a space Kemp was too inarticulate to make Adye understand the swift things that had just happened. They stood on the landing, Kemp speaking swiftly, the grotesqu...

THE WICKSTEED MURDERThe Invisible Man seems to have rushed out of Kemp's house in a state of blind fury. A little child playing near Kemp's gateway was violently caught up and thrown aside, so that...

THE SIEGE OF KEMP'S HOUSEKemp read a strange missive, written in pencil on a greasy sheet of paper."You have been amazingly energetic and clever," this letter ran, "though what you stand to gain by...

THE HUNTER HUNTEDMr. Heelas, Mr. Kemp's nearest neighbour among the villa holders, was asleep in his summer house when the siege of Kemp's house began. Mr. Heelas was one of the sturdy minority who...

So ends the story of the strange and evil experiments of the Invisible Man. And if you would learn more of him you must go to a little inn near Port Stowe and talk to the landlord. The sign of the...