Morlock

Morlocks are one of the two fictional species of post-humans conceived by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novel The Time Machine (the other being the Eloi). The origin of the names is not established (with regard to Wells' inspiration or inspirations). In the Wells' story, the Morlocks are the novel's main antagonists. Since their creation by Wells, Morlock characters have appeared in many other works, including sequels, films, television shows, as well as in works by other authors (many of which deviate from the original description).

==Name origin== With regard to the choice of the name, one writer has made a specific association between Wells' "Morlocks" and the Morlachs, a rural people of Venetian Dalmatia, frequently demonized by Westerners in the 16th–18th centuries. Alternatively, one scholar suggests it likely that the name was a combination of the word "warlock" and the god Moloch, the Canaanite god of child sacrifice, which positions Eloi as analogous to children.