![]() ![]() ![]() This is one horror/sci-fi story, one could find all manner of allegory, making it one of the more thought-provoking tales of this genre. Jekyll.Īs the good doctor proceeds with his experiments, he discovers he is almost addicted to his alter ego- who is gradually becoming the dominant personality and becoming more and more dangerous with each passing day. Hyde is put off by him, and do not understand his hold over the respectable and well-liked, Dr. Jekyll, is resentful of having to repress the darker side of his nature and happens across a solution- one that allows him to express this side of himself by becoming, through the aid of ‘medication’, Mr. Still, when it came to reading the book, unless it was a classroom assignment, I don’t think I ever voluntarily read it, and if I did read it somewhere back there, I honestly couldn’t recall it, which is why I decided to select it for my classic horror Halloween read, this year.Įveryone knows the setup for this short story. I did, later in life, watch a movie version of this tale starring Spencer Tracey, and an all- star cast, which was petty good. 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 just didn’t really care for all that much. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is an 1886 publication. ![]()
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