The ‘double life’ that the book’s hero (the respectable doctor Henry Jekyll) finds himself leading was something that Stevenson himself knew all about: the confined invalid who pioneered the art of travel writing; the clergyman’s grandson who decadently slummed it in Edinburgh’s fleshpots; the Scottish writer spuriously known by a French middle name… Well, we all have something to hide – though few of our secrets are as dreadful as Dr. Jekyll’s. This dynamic graphic novel adaptation by Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal stays eerily faithful to the creeping chill of the London streets where Stevenson’s story was originally set.
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