While Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has become one of the defining myths of modern literature, it remains far stranger than its reputation suggests.

It is anything but a simple horror story. It really is a meditation on the instability of identity, the pressures of Victorian respectability, and the terrifying possibility that good and evil are not opposites but inseparable parts of the same self. Its influence stretches across horror, psychology, crime fiction and modernist literature, yet its clipped, propulsive prose still feels remarkably contemporary.

This edition also gathers several of Stevenson's finest shorter works, including The Body Snatcher, The Bottle Imp, Markheim and excerpts from the unfinished Weir of Hermiston. Together they showcase the breadth of Stevenson's imagination, moving between Gothic horror, moral fable, supernatural fiction and psychological suspense. An excellent introduction to one of the nineteenth century's most inventive storytellers.

2010 Arcturus Publishing paperback edition with an introduction by Brian Busby. Light shelf wear to the covers, with a clean, unmarked interior and a firm binding.