Robert Louis Stevenson s immortal tale of personality and evil, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil Published as a shilling shocker , Robert Louis Stevenson s dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll s strange association with damnable young man Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde s true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity s basest capacity for evil.