![]() Reading it plunges us back into 19 th century London and lovers of the inimitable stylistic flourishes of Victorian literature won’t be disappointed. The story of Jekyll and Hyde has gone so far into the realm of common folklore that it’s easy to forget its pulp origins as a penny dreadful. ![]() We’ll start this list of doppelgänger stories with a classic. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Here are nine doppelgänger stories that will make you afraid of the mirror. Doppelgängers, split personalities and evil twins only begin to touch on the ways authors have explored the horrors we can find in ourselves. But no subgenre of horror literature illustrates the two-sided coin of self-hatred and narcissism better than stories about doubles. Much horror literature plays on our fear and fascination with the person we see in the mirror: a fear of what we’re hiding or don’t know about ourselves, a fear of who we’ve been and who we could become. ![]()
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