The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most famous pieces of English literature, and is considered to be a defining book of the gothic horror genre. The novella has also had a sizable impact on popular culture, with the phrase 'Jekyll and Hyde' being used in vernacular to refer to people with an outwardly good but sometimes shockingly evil nature.