Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

From the deepest corners of his own psyche, Robert Louis Stevenson penned his masterwork on the dualism of good and evil in human nature. His wife had roused him from the nightmare by hearing his cries. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona—the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde—has lost none of its ability to shock. Its terrifying, realistic police procedural storyline portrays Jekyll's desperation as Hyde takes over his soul and gives voice to our own anxieties about the violence and evil that reside within of us. Written prior to Freud's identification of the ego and id, Stevenson's timeless masterpiece exhibits an extraordinary comprehension of the inner battles inside the psyche and continues to be the utterly horrifying material of our worst dreams.