Morlocks

Noun

Morlock (plural Morlocks)

1. A member of a troglodyte cannibalistic race described in H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine (1895).
2. (broadly) A brutish troglodyte.
   • Thus civilian morale became a key issue in war preparations, which were undertaken in a spirit so fretfully suspicious that centralised mass shelters were not constructed for fear of encouraging a deep shelter mentality that would turn London's population into a race of modern Morlocks.2004, Laura Marcus, Peter Nicholls, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, page 437