While innumerable adaptations across a variety of media would have us believe that Dr. Hyde.Īs explained by Steven Padnick of TOR, there is no Mr. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale." Apparently, he had dreamed up until Jekyll's first transformation into Mr. "Why did you wake me?" a furious Stevenson asked. As detailed in Graham Balfour's biography, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, the indignant writer was not at all grateful for his wife's intervention. Distressed by her husband's cries, Stevenson's wife, Fanny, stirred the author from his fitful sleep. In the autumn of 1885, a feverish and heavily medicated Stevenson, suffering from a lung hemorrhage, screamed out in his sleep. When he had a touch of fever at night, and the room swelled and shrank, and his clothes, hanging on a nail, now loomed up instant to the bigness of a church, and now drew away into a horror of infinite distance and infinite littleness, the poor soul was very well aware of what must follow." It would be this fusion of chronic illness and dreams that fueled the writing of Strange Case of Dr. Writing of his childhood dreams in an 1888 essay, the author explains, "He was from a child an ardent and uncomfortable dreamer.
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