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1Spoilers for the book abound below.
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3* TheReveal: Morlocks are not the castaway mutants and Eloi are not the rulers of a surface Utopia. Morlocks feed and tend to the childlike, innocent Eloi so that they can sneak into their houses at night, take them down to their tunnels, and eat them alive. ''[[SapientEatSapient Eloi are LIVESTOCK]].''
4* The first encounter of the Time Traveler with the Morlocks. [[TheDarknessGazesBack Their eyes glow in the dark.]] Not really scary, and then we see their [[SlasherSmile smile]]. And nothing more.
5* Perhaps the most scary part about the Morlocks are just how much more human they seem compared to the Eloi. So what does that say about ''[[HumansAreBastards us]]?''
6* The fate of Weena.
7* The Time Traveller's journey past the Eloi and the Morlocks at the end of the book. For the first time in the book, he is completely cut off from any form of humanity. As he contemplates the complete end of humanity, the only life forms around him are giant crabs and something in the shadows that we don't get to see.
8** Said something in the shadows is a hopping, approximately football-sized object that utterly terrifies the Time Traveller. Scholars who are familiar with H.G. Wells's satirical idea of the future humans as nothing but overgrown brains with some kind of manipulatory organ attached recognize this as the exact opposite: a ravenous stomach without a brain.
9* The Grey Man, a chapter from the original serial publication not included in the book, presents a disturbing leap forward from the future of the Morlocks and Eloi. The Time Traveler arrives on a sparse field full of gray rabbit-like creatures. Curious, he picks up a rock and stuns one to get a closer look. What he finds are signs of the creature's ancestry: a round head with forward-facing eyes and five digits on each foot. Before he can get a closer look, another animal- a giant centipede-like creature- emerges and sends the rabbit-like creatures skittering off. The Time Traveler speculates that, with the extinction of most other forms of life, perhaps humanity gradually evolved to fill the vacant niches.

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