The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

‘He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change – he seemed to swell – his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter…’

Dr Henry Jekyll is a brilliant man, an upstanding citizen and a scientist of some renown.

Mr Robert Hyde is a bully, violent and brutish, increasingly grotesque and uncontrollable.

So why is Mr Hyde seen at Dr Jekyll’s house? Why is Dr Jekyll paying compensation for Mr Hyde’s violent crimes? And why has Dr Jekyll made Mr Hyde the sole beneficiary of his will?

As Jekyll’s friend and lawyer tries to discover how two wildly different men came to be entangled, he discovers a truth beyond anything he could have imagined.

Robert Louis Stephenson’s iconic gothic novella has been adapted and remade again and again, as it examines the very nature of good and evil, virtue and sin, and the dark desires of the human psyche: Id and Ego. Alongside The Picture of Dorian Grey, it looks at the outward personas and inner corruption of man. It’s a staple of classic horror literature, perfect for fans of Dracula and Mike Flanagan’s horror adaptations.

Troubled by the strange behaviour of his friend, Dr Jekyll, a young London lawyer decides to investigate. But the truth, as he discovers that Jekyll and the brutal Edward Hyde are one and the same is more terrible than he could possibly have anticipated…