Tolkien's ring from The Fellowship of the Ring? It should.) There are also a bunch of really fun horror stories from the 1800s about invisible monsters, like Fitz-James O'Brien's "What Was it? A Mystery" (1859), Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla" (1887), and Ambrose Bierce's "The Damned Thing" (1893). Long story short, the ring gets used for evil. In the Republic, Plato wrote a story about the Ring of Gyges that allowed the wearer to become invisible. In fact, we could trace the invisible guy back to Greek myths, too. The mad scientist is an idea that we can probably trace back to Daedalus from Greek myths (or at least to Frankenstein). Of course Wells didn't invent the mad scientist or the concept of invisibility. Only this time, instead of traveling through time or making animals into people, the main character of The Invisible Man – spoiler alert! – creates an invisibility formula. The Invisible Manwas published in 1897 and like many of Wells' other stories, it features an eccentric and possibly mad scientist-inventor.
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