"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase «„Jekyll and Hyde“» entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil.
Stevenson had long been intrigued by the idea of how human personalities can affect how to incorporate the interplay of good and evil into a story. While still a teenager, he developed a script for a play about Deacon Brodie, which he later reworked with the help of W. E. Henley and which was produced for the first time in 1882. In early 1884, he wrote the short story «„Markheim“», which he revised in 1884 for publication in a Christmas annual. According to his essay, «„A Chapter on Dreams“» (Scribner's, Jan. 1888), he racked his brains for an idea for a story and had a dream, and upon wakening had the intuition for two or three scenes that would appear in the story Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Biographer Graham Balfour quoted Stevenson's wife Fanny Stevenson:
In the small hours of one morning, I was awakened by cries of horror from Louis. Thinking he had a nightmare, I awakened him. He said angrily: «„Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.“» I had awakened him at the first transformation scene.
Famous works of the author Robert Stevenson: Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."



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"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. «The Willows» is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the River Danube. Throughout the story, Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment —river, sun, wind— with powerful and ultimately threatening characteristics. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which «moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible.»
Among the most significant works Algernon Blackwood: The Empty House, Jimbo: A Fantasy, The Wave, The Promise of Air, The Garden of Survival, The Bright Messenger, Dudley & Gilderoy: A Nonsense, The Doll and One Other, Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre, The Centaur, The Wendigo.



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