The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Longmans, Green & Co., 1886)
audiobook read by Ian Holm (Canongate, 2007)
Stevenson’s gothic horror novella holds up well, despite the plot twist being well and truly out of the bag for modern readers. The story’s original publication as a ‘shilling shocker’ reflects the sensationalist speculative element rather than any dearth of literary quality.