Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Leslie Klinger is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on gothic horror, as well as being an attorney who specializes in tax, estate planning, and business law.

He is a noted writer, literary editor, and annotator on the classic horror film genre and history of crime, including the Sherlock Holmes stories, the novels Dracula, Frankenstein, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, the Edgar-winning classic American crime fiction of the 1920s, as well as Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Comics and American Gods, and Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel, Watchmen.

He is currently the editor of the 16-volume Library of Congress Crime Classics series.

Les attended the University of California, where he received an A.B. in English, and also earned his J.D. from the University of California School of Law.

The reason is not apparent why this man had spells when, like a tempest, the impulse seized him to commit murder and deeds of violence.

Yet, at other moments, he displayed such gentleness he would hesitate to crush a fly, a two-sided man, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Literally, when you were describing it, I was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Like, this guy has a split personality, like, psychopathic side to him.

Ugh.

And the whole story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is about being able to hide in plain sight.

And Ro is nothing if not someone who is really good at hiding, blending in and wearing a false face.

This strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had been published by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886.

Yeah, I'm kind of there with you.

Out of the Robert Louis Stevenson books, I've absolutely read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I read that after I saw the musical on Broadway, and I was interested in it.

I also read, at the same time I read that Phantom of the Opera book, I attempted Les Mis, and I was like, I'm good.

So here's the reason I even brought up the Stevenson family tree.

Do you know... how many accounts I listened to about how David Allen Stevenson was the son of Robert Louis Stevenson, author of, yes, Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Yes, it is pronounced Jekyll.

Jekyll like treacle, not Jekyll like heckle, right? That's not how it's actually pronounced.

Yeah, he's a werewolf.

It's also, it says here the music video borrows heavily from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, depicting Ozzy as a mad scientist.

who ingests a substance in the laboratory, which causes him to transform into a

werewolf.

So it goes back quite a ways.

But it's something that we think of very much in 19th century literature, where it became very popular with Frankenstein and with Dracula, also the picture of Dorian Gray and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

These are many of the big influences on spooky stories that would

follow.