Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Stevenson - Signet mm PB)

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN: 9780451532251

Binding: mass market paperback

Section: Weird Tales/Ghost Stories

"Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale."

Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious — during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona — the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde — has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekyll's desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul — and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us.