The release date for the English version of 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror' by
Robert Louis Stevenson is Feb 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"He raised the glass to his lips and took a single sip, his features melting and changing to a black face."
The concept of the split personality originated from Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological dream, which was published as a "shilling shocker." A terrifying examination of humanity's most fundamental potential for evil, the tale of respectable Dr. Jekyll's peculiar friendship with "damnable young man" Edward Hyde, the search for a murderer through fog-bound London, and the shocking disclosure of Hyde's actual nature are all told. The other two tales in this anthology, "The Body Snatcher," a graphic fictionalization of the adventures of the infamous Burke and Hare, and "Olalla," a story of vampires and contaminated family blood, provide further testimony to Stevenson's ingenuity within the Gothic genre.
Robert Mighall has written a scholarly introduction to this edition that covers crime, class, and the relevance of the story's London location. An article on the novel's scientific settings and the evolution of the concept of the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality is also included.