In seeking to discover his inner self the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886 this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories The Merry Men & Other Tales & Fables. The Merry Men is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks & madness; Markheim the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; Thrawn Janet a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; Olalla a study of degeneration & incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; Will O'the Mill a thought-provoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; & The Treasure of Franchard a study of French bourgeois life.