Dr Jekyll creates a potion whereby he can divide the good and evil parts of his personality and thus free the good side to work for the benefit of mankind without the distraction of his baser instincts. Unfortunately, he undertakes the experiment while the depraved side of his nature is in the ascendancy and turns into the repulsive Mr Hyde, whose very presence ‘emanates with foulness and decay’, and who bears the ‘signature of Satan’ on his face.

Hyde eventually commits murder and begins to dominate the tortured Jekyll, inhabiting the Doctors’ body more and more - and then Jekylls’ supply of the drugs to make his potion and effect the transformation start to run out!

The idea for this horror story came to Stevenson in a nightmare. Part thriller, part mystery the novels construction was also notable, for the action is described by three of the protagonists.

This terrifying tale was hailed as a literary landmark when it was first published in 1886.

Collection	Narrator	Length
Victorian	Peter Joyce	3 hrs 15 mins

Media	Compact Disc
Media Qty	3
Audio Format	CD-DA
Book Code	VI-128CD
ISBN	978 1 86015 066 1
Price	£11.99

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 –1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer born in Edinburgh. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were distinguished lighthouse designers and engineers. It was from this side of the family that he inherited his love of adventure, joy of the sea and for the open road. He was encouraged to play outside, where he proved to be a wild and carefree child, and by the age of eleven his health had improved so that his parents prepared him for the University of Edinburgh by attending Edinburgh Academy, planning for him to follow his father as a lighthouse engineer. He soon discovered he had neither the scientific mind nor physical endurance to succeed as an engineer. When his father took him for a voyage he found - instead of being interested in lighthouse construction - that his mind was teeming with wonderful romances about the coast and islands which they visited. After finishing his degree his father finally allowed him to decide on a career in literature.

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