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Jekyll and HydeJekyll and Hyde
A respectable doctor brews a potion that frees his darker self, the monstrous Mr Hyde, in a foggy London mystery about the two natures warring inside one man.
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A near-perfect short shocker whose central idea is now so famous you may not realise how taut and eerie the original is. One evening’s read that stays with you for years.
SettingLondon, 1880s
Respectable Victorian gentlemen led carefully partitioned lives, propriety by day, secret appetites after dark, in a fog-bound London that hid as much as it revealed.
On screen & beyond
- Rouben Mamoulian’s film with Fredric March (1931)