โAn ingenious revisionโ of Robert Louis Stevensonโs classic Gothic story told through the eyes of the fiend (The New York Times Book Review).
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Mr. Hyde is trapped, locked in Dr. Jekyllโs house, certain of his inevitable capture. As the dreadful hours pass, he has the chance, finally, to tell his side of the storyโone of buried dreams and dark lusts, both liberating and obscured in the gaslit fog of Victorian Londonโs sordid backstreets.
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Summoned to life by strange potions, Hyde knows not when or how long he will have control of โthe body.โ When dormant, he watches Dr. Jekyll from a distance, conscious of this other, high-class life but without influence. As the experiment continues, their mutual existence is threatened, not only by the uncertainties of untested science, but also by a mysterious stalker. Hyde is being tauntedโpossibly framed. Girls have gone missing; a murder has been committed. And someone is always watching from the shadows. In the blur of this shared consciousness, can Hyde ever truly know if these crimes were committed by his hands?
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Narrated by Hyde, this serpentine tale about the nature of evil, addiction, and the duality of man โdelivers a new look at this enigmatic character and intriguing possible explanations for Jekyllโs behaviorโ (The Washington Post, Five Best Thrillers of 2014).
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โHyde brings into the light the various horrors still hidden in the dark heart of Stevensonโs classic taleย .ย .ย .ย a blazing triumph of the gothic imagination.โ โPatrick McGrath, author of Asylum
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โEarthy, lurid, and unsparingย .ย .ย .ย a worthy companion to its predecessor. Itโs rich in gloomy, moody atmosphere (Levineโs London has a brutal steampunk quality), and its narratorโs plight is genuinely poignant.โ โThe New York Times Book Review, Editorsโ Choice