This review is just for the main story. I did not read the other offerings. This story is considered a classic and tells the tale of a man who has two different identities.

I believe most of us know the basics of the story. I know I did. But once again what I thought I knew is different from the act

Dr Jekyll – now there’s a scientist!

So, this is what Gothic Horror is all about. If this is an example of this genre, bring it on, give me more – I loved it, I couldn’t put the thing down.

There’s little point outlining the story in any great deal to you learned lot. This is a clever examination of

'O God!’ I screamed, and ‘O God!’ again and again; for there before my eyes–pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death – there stood Henry Jekyll!'

Initial Thoughts

I needed to read a story written prior to 1900 for an ongoing rea

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is an 1886 publication.

What a strange case, indeed!

This classic tale of horror is one that, of all the old movies, like Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein and all their various incarnations, I watched repeatedly growing up, I

i too would beat people to death with a walking stick on sight if i was sexually repressed.

The strange thing about the Jekyll-and-Hyde story, for me, is how true-to-life it all feels. From the moment one first takes up a copy of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and begins reading, it is as if one is reading a moral autobiography. There is, after all, good and bad within all of us – a fact o

The potion that makes you change! How many horror movies have swiped this idea! This is basically the template for the Hulk; Stan Lee admits that this work and Frankenstein helped influence him to create a 'monster' that was misunderstood - another example of 'cross-pollination' that happens when yo

حقا انها اشياء لا تشترى
فكلنا تزورنا الكوابيس و لكن هل نستخلص منها روائع روائية مثل ستيفنسون ؟

الفصام. .مرض منتشر أكثر مما نتخيل..و هناك شعرة منه بداخل كل منا !! قد يكون في صورة تقلبات مزاجية بسيطة أو حادة
..و قد يكون في تلك الصورة العبقرية المريعة التي رسمها ستيفنسون في قصته الفريدة..و التي بدأت بكاب