
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · Gothic horror
A respectable London doctor is being seen with a brutal, deformed associate, and his lawyer can't work out the connection. The reveal is, at this point, common knowledge — but the dread of the chase to it, and the moral weight underneath, is why the names became shorthand.
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