Possible Clues:

• Idle race in an 1895 sci-fi story
• Race of people in an H.G. Wells novella
• Morlocks’ victims in “The Time Machine”
• "The Time Machine" tribe
• Morlocks' prey, in sci-fi
• Weena's race, in "The Time Machine"
• Nyctophobic fictional race
• Race in an H. G. Wells novel
• Peaceful, not-so-smart race in 'The Time Machine'
• Fictional futuristic race