A combination of fever dreams and cocaine led to one of the greatest horror stories of all time. Robert Louis Stevenson was dying of tuberculosis when he wrote “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” He almost trashed it, but after nine days of frantic writing he had defined the gothic novel and given us a metaphor for people with split personalities: Jekyll and Hyde.

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A combination of fever dreams and cocaine led to one of the greatest horror stories of all time. Robert Louis Stevenson was dying of tuberculosis when he wrote &ldquo;The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.&rdquo; He almost trashed it, but after nine days of frantic writing he had defined the gothic novel and given us a metaphor for people with split personalities: Jekyll and Hyde.
If you have a story you&rsquo;d like me to take a deeper dive into and share, just DM me. On Facebook it&rsquo;s Patty Steele and on Instagram Real Patty Steele.

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The Backstory: Gothic Horror: Giving Birth to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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