Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Stevenson's truly chilling yarn about the suppressed duality of humanity in society is given an admirably accessible new treatment here. Mould has daringly retained the original structure and sequence of the tale, with its complex timeline and multiple narrators, and has presented a chain of rewritten episodes which capture the essence of Jekyll-and-Hyde's ordeal. The illustrations, set out in graphic novel format, are caricatural, but their crepuscular and slighly lurid richness is an ideal backdrop to this troubled text. The narrative, as in the original, is carried in recollections, letters, dialogue and straightforward storytelling. It is a delight to find a version of this much-abused story which is accessible to younger readers while remaining faithful to the complexities of Stevenson's ground-breaking masterpiece.