Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

As befits the first subject of this article it has a bit of a bipolar personality. We wish to examine the Hyde of Jekyll and its affect on his descendants.

## **Terminology**

For simplicity's sake.

A persona created by drinking the formula will be referred to as a "Hyde" unless they have a name, usually one they give themselves. Some Hydes are more animalistic and so don't give themselves names.

Once a "Hyde" has been created, the original untransformed persona will be referred to as a "Jekyll".

## **The Nature of Hyde**

What exactly was Jekyll's Hyde? Was it his evil side manifested as a wholly different person brought out by an elixir of his concoction? Yes, it was that. Yet as our research hopes to demonstrate,  the elixir, fueled by Jekyll's schizophrenia tapped into some latent ability of Jekyll's to cause this transformation.

Mr. Hyde was not merely an evil reflection of Jekyll, he was apparently a physical reflection of his psyche. The narrative of *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*shows Hyde starting out as a slightly brutish, shorter and younger man than Jekyll. People who met Hyde immediately felt a sense of loathing and disgust and had the distinct sense that he was somehow deformed, yet not a deformation was apparent. Yet as the transformations continued and as Jekyll reveled in his evil side more than he actually reviled it, the shape and face of Hyde became even more bestial. Jekyll eventually no longer needed the potion to transform. He once went to bed and woke up in the Hyde form. He awakened noticing the change in his hand first of all. He described the hand as "lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor, and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair."

In another version of the case, written by the distinguished medical man, John H. Watson, Hyde is again described as evoking an immediate loathing and giving the impression of deformity yet none can be seen. Watson describes Hyde has having a black hump of hair, large teeth and conjoined batwing like eyebrows. Written in 1918, Watson's account may have been influenced by stage and film adaptations of the Jekyll and Hyde tale which came about between his writing of the tale and the events themselves but this is unlikely, Although the joined eyebrows are quite intriguing. It may be also that Hyde never actually looked exactly the same each time he manifested, beyond being a small man. That too would change in time.

Jekyll eventually needed the elixir to remain Jekyll and keep the Hyde persona dormant. It became ever more difficult to keep Hyde caged, even with more frequent applications of the elixir.

Although Mr. Stevenson painted Mr. Hyde as the embodiment of depravity, we are never privy to any of Hyde's darkest secrets. We only witness two acts of brutality done by this man Stevenson seems to believe was the distillation of pure evil. These entailed the trampling of a young girl and paying his way out of trouble and the brutal beating and murder of a man on the street.  Granted, they are despicable acts yet  more heinous acts by men had been committed in the past and would be in fact committed in just a year or so hence. Also given this account is from the Victorian era, any number of things could be considered deprave, from running around naked to Homoesexuality.

Although the murder of Sir Danvers Carew is seen by Stevenson and by Watson as a random act of brutal murder demonstrating Edward Hyde's bestial nature, there is some slight evidence that the murder was not a random act but rather a deliberate act on the part of Henry Jekyll using the Hyde persona.

A book entitled *Jekyll, Alias Hyde*by Donald Thomas looks at the case from another viewpoint. This version of the case purports that Jekyll and Hyde were always two separate people, in other words Jekyll did not transform at all. Hyde was a short, strong man who blackmailed Jekyll with certain information about his affair with the lawyer Utterson's wife. Yet Hyde eventually became Jekyll's tool as Jekyll gained a hold over the drug addicted Hyde.  While I must disagree with most of the conclusions reached by the author, believing that while his thesis is certainly meritous, it further muddies the waters and provides Dr. Jekyll with additional proof of his apparent death. It also goes along with what Jekyll wanted people to believe about him. While I would not say that the author was deliberately providing false information, it is entirely possible that his researches into the facts of the case were aided by the Jekyll estate. To provide the thesis with some basis in reality certain facts were leaked to the author Donald Thomas. These included some mention of Dr. Jekyll's earlier life prior to the events of 1884-87.

## **Biography**

It should be remembered that Dr. Jekyll was an expert at hiding his past, of covering his tracks so expertly that even the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes uncovered nothing more than a innocuous encounter Dr. Jekyll had with a prostitute during his schooldays in Edinburgh. Yet there are several allusions that Dr. Jekyll lived a secret life of vice which disgusted and filled his pious side with shame and guilt. Now it could very well be that these so called vices were all imaginary but if so he must have possessed an unusually lurid and prurient imagination. Nor does it explain some of the mysteries that surround his background, such as the incident in 1871 which caused his brother Leonard Jekyll to forgo the Jekyll name and reassume his birth name of Harrison Lane. However due to a lack of information at this time we cannot ascertain Dr. Jekyll's actvities in his youth.

We know his mother's name was Samantha her maiden name appears to have been Glendon. You may recognize the name, it the same name as the eminent explorer and botantist Wilfred Glendon who died under mysterious circumstances in London in 1935. Glendon was related to the Talbots and they were both distantly related to  Leon Carrida, Anthony Rivers, Count Inre Wolfstein, Waldamer Daninsky, and Lajos-Dracula’s servant Andreas. If you recognize the names you will also note that they all shared a similar curse as well as a similar heritage, lycanthropy. Yet they all share a unique form of lycanthropy, they were among the few of the many lycantropes who were humanoid in appearance.

According to *Jekyll, Alias Hyde.* Dr. Jekyll had an affair with the wife of his long time friend, Gabriel Utterson. This affair bore fruit the the person of Dido Utterson. Mrs. Utterson went mad shortly after the birth of her daughter, Dido. This madness was postpartum depression coupled with an overwhelming guilt and shame for having borne a child out of wedlock. Utterson insisted that his friend, Henry Jekyll, an expert on diseases of the mind watch over his wife during this time.

Dr. Jekyll had two love affairs that produced progeny; he also had progeny from his activities as Mr. Hyde.

Dr. Jekyll's first child was Dido Utterson, born 1870 to Mrs. Amelia Utterson, the wife of his very good friend. Gabriel Utterson was unaware of Jekyll's perfidy and Dido was raised as his daughter.

Mrs. Utterson died in March, 1871 approximately eight months after giving birth to her daughter. Her death was most likely a suicide. Henry Jekyll was devastated. He blamed himself for her death. He wrote to his brother detailing his actions and seeking advice. His brother was not the most understanding sort, he disowned Henry and his sins and turned his back on the Jekyll name. Henry Jekyll sought solace by escaping from his life and assumed a new identity, that of Samuel Parr. As Samuel Parr, Jekyll worked as a surgeon-general with the Queen's army in Africa. As Samuel Parr, Jekyll was present at Isandhlwana. Some accounts state that he bolted at the first sign of the onslaught, other accounts state that he had already left the area and was well on his way to Roarke's Drift before the fighting began. What appears to have happened was that Parr/Jekyll did indeed depart prior to the fighting began but before the Zulu's had arrived. His anxiety to leave was to avoid seeing one Danvers Carew.

Why did Henry Jekyll wish to avoid seeing Sir Danvers Carew? It appears that Danvers Carew was Utterson's brother-in-law, Mrs. Utterson's natal name having been Carew. Carew knew Jekyll, knew the truth of the story behind Mrs.Utterson's last child and the circumstances of her death. He laid the blame squarely on the shoulders of Dr. Henry Jekyll. Fortunately for Jekyll, their paths did not cross at that particular time, although Carew later became aware of the Parr/Jekyll imposture.

### **Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:1883**

Slim and Tubby were the psuedonyms of the two immortal bumblers who would later meet Frankenstein,Dracula, a Wolfman and the Invisible Man. Their guise in this year of 1883 was of two  American's attached to the London Police Force to learn law enforcement practices.

Here are the events of the film:

The film opens with a Dr. Samuel Poole being stalked, clubbed and choked by the bestial appearing Mr. Hyde in a dark alley. A reporter Bruce Adams discovers the body. The papers state that another Hyde Park Murder has been committed. The next day the reporter visits Hyde Park to investigate for clues. A suffragette demonstration catches his eyes and he watches one of the suffragettes with particular interest. The Suffragette rally turns into a riot and among the police called to the scene are Slim and Tubby. Their "rough" handling of a well connected high born lady gets them arrested. In actuality the high born lady was resisting arrest and physically assaulted Slim and Tubby, whose attacks on the woman were little more than verbal threats. They shared their jail cell with Bruce Adams who questioned them about the Hyde Park murders.

Bruce also spent time talking to the interesting suffragette who was in another cell. Her name was Vicky Edwards, she was twenty years old and a dance hall entertainer. She and the other Suffragettes were bailed out of jail by Henry Jekyll. Henry Jekyll is Vicky Edwards guardian. Bruce Adams rides along with Vicky and Dr. Jekyll in Dr. Jekyll's carriage to Dr. Jekyll's house and then with Vicky to Vicky's theatre. Dr. Jekyll is not pleased with this development. He desired Vicky and had been waiting for her to have reached her maturity before making her his wife.

After Bruce and Vicky have departed, Dr. Jekyll enters his library and opens a secret passage behind a book case. This leads to a laboratory in his basement. Inside the laboratory is a wide array of chemical apparatus with ongoing experiments or chemical manufacturing. A few cages are filled with laboratory animals. Working in the lab is a brutish large man whom Jekyll calls Bately. Bately is a deaf mute. He shows Dr. Jekyll the paper with the story on Dr. Poole's death. Dr. Jekyll says that he had to kill him since  had mocked his theories. Jekyll then retracts the statement and says, He did not kill him. Mr. Hyde did.

Dr. Jekyll injects himself with his serum and transforms into Mr. Hyde. He wishes to dispose of Bruce Adams and travels to the theatre where Vicky Edwards is performing.

Tubby and Slim have the idea to capture the "Monster" and be reinstated on the London Police Force. Their "investigation" leads them to the theatre where Vicky Edwards is performing and talk their way inside.  Mistaking a peformer wearing a Javanese mask for the monster they follow him and accidentally run into the real Mr. Hyde. Their inept attempts to capture him lead to a public confrontation. Bruce Adams joined Slim and Tubby as they chased after Mr. Hyde up the stairs to the roof. A fruitless chase across the rooftops has the men decide to split up and chase after Mr. Hyde.

Tubby was tired of the chase and decided to go home. He entered a building through a skylight but tripped and fell, he grabbed onto some electrical wires as he fell ripping them from their mounts. Amidst dangling live wires Tubby lands next to a wax dummy of Frankenstein's Monster. The loose electrical wires touch one of the neck bolts of the Frankenstein's Monster. It becomes animated and steps forward.  In the dim light he thinks it is Hyde and runs screaming away. The building he has landed in is a wax museum which also contains exhibits of George Washington, Dracula and Buffalo Bill.

Tubby is then chased by the real Hyde but locks himself into an iron maiden to escape from Hyde. Hearing footsteps from outside the museum Hyde steps back into the shadows. Slim hears Tubby's screams for helps and breaks into the wax museum. He frees Tubby who tells him that Hyde is in the museum. Slim ordered Tubby to capture Hyde while Slim went for the police.

Tubby managed to lock Hyde into a jail cell which is part of the wax museum's exhibit. As he runs for the police, Hyde transforms back into Dr. Jekyll. The Inspector is enraged that Tubby locked up one of London's most prominent Physicians. Jekyll claims that he had been walking by the wax museum and accosted by Tubby.

Although Tubby declares that Dr. Jekyll must be Mr. Hyde he is disbelieved. Dr. Jekyll refused to press charges against Tubby and actually offered Slim and Tubby a job walking him home and guarding him for the night.

After he showed Tubby and Slim to their room for the night, Jekyll visited his lab. He told Batley that Tubby had seen him as Hyde. Batley made a throttling motion. Jekyll wanted to keep Tubby as a human experimental animal so told Bately not to kill him.

Nervous Tubby was unable to sleep in Jekyll's house. He spent some time snooping around the house and stumbled onto the hidden passage behind the library. He discovered the lab with the odd experimental animals, weird chemicals and giant hulking lab assistant. Batley attempted to throttle Tubby. Their struggle caused some chemicals to explode. The noise brought Slim and Jekyll to the library. Tubby told Slim all about the lab. Jekyll admits to the lab but claimed that he worked alone.

Slim, Jekyll and Tubby looked at the lab. Jekyll claimed that the odd behavior of the lab animals is due to his experiments with brain switching.

As Slim examined the lab, Jekyll excused himself and went into another room. Tubby drank what he believed was a glass of water. Meanwhile in the other room Jekyll told Bately that Slim and Tubby had to be eliminated immediately. Before Bately could act however Tubby sneaked out of the laboratory through a door leading to an alley. Slim chased after him. They decided to visit a pub to get a drink to calm their nerves. The substance that Tubby drank turned him into a giant anthropoid mouse. Slim is oblivious to the transformation until the other pub patrons panicked.

They hurried to the police station and told the Inspector that Jekyll had turned Tubby into a mouse. The Inspector believed that they had been drunk and threw them out of the office.

Tubby and Slim enlist the aid of Bruce Adams and Vicky Edwards to prove Jekyll is Hyde. Bruce and Vicky visted Jekyll's house with Slim and Tubby to prove to the two that Jekyll is innocent.

Jekyll showed Bruce and Vicky the room in the basement which had been turned into a wine cellar. Jekyll, Bruce and Vicky returned upstairs while Slim and Tubby stayed behind to find clues to the where the laboratory had disappeared. They found a bottle of wine named Moselle, which Slim thought was the stuff that had turned Tubby into a mouse. Tubby drank the bottle of wine but only transformed into an inebriated state.

As Slim and Tubby sampled Jekyll's wines, Bruce Adams asked Jekyll for Vicky's hand in marriage. Jekyll agreed. He told Bruce that they had many arrangements to discuss. Bruce left Jekyll's home so Vicky and Jekyll could discuss the matter. Once Bruce had gone, Jekyll declared that he would not agree to this marriage, Vicky would be Jekyll's bride and no one else's. He told Vicky he would change Adams into a monster and when he killed him, the police would think that Adams had been the killer.

Vicky struggled with Hyde knocking the loaded syringe out of his hands. It fell and lodged in the sofa cushions. Without having taken any of his serum, Jekyll transformed into Mr. Hyde. Vicky screamed. Tubby, Bruce, Slim and Bately came running into the room. In the melee, Bately was shot and killed and Tubby fell onto the hypodermic needle. Tubby transformed into a Hyde creature unnoticed by anyone and jumped out of the the window. Slim thought this was Hyde and chased after him. Jekyll went out the front door chased by Adams.

Tubby and Hyde ran in opposite directions and were chased throughout the city. Slim eventually captured the transformed Tubby and dragged him back to the Police Inspector's office. While Tubby was being subdued he bit several police officers including the Inspector.

Hyde circled back to Jekyll's house. He grabbed Vicky and carried her upstairs to one of the bedrooms. His intended rape was not consummated as  Adams burst into the bedroom with a gun. Hyde jumped out of the window. He crashes to the sidewalk three floors below and dies, transforming back into Jekyll.

Tubby transformed back into his natural state. The Inspector decided to throw the book at the two. However the Inspector and the many police officers that Tubby had bit transformed into Hyde creatures and chased Tubby and Slim.

This was the cinematic version of the events, so what really happened? We know that Dr. Jekyll was not exposed as Mr. Hyde until 1885 and he was not an active murderer, this would come much later as his darker side took greater control of his personality.

1882 and 1883 were the early experiment stages of Jekyll's formula. He had created a formula that affected the areas of the brain that controlled inhibition. He has also created an early version of his transformation formula in which he was able to physically transform into Mr. Hyde, who was not yet the bestial creature depicted in stage and film. The formula only transformed Jekyll and only for short periods of time. Yet even Hyde was not a murderer at this time, it even took Hyde time to work up to murder. Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde were not the Hyde Park Murders(Hyde Park was still known as Serpentine Park at the time) but they were involved.

In a scenario later duplicated by Lorenzo Cameron and other like madmen, Dr. Jekyll was not an active murderer but he was an orchestrator of murder. In fact, Dr. Jekyll was not even involved in the murders, Mr. Hyde was. The actual murderer was Dr. Jekyll's hulking, mute assistant Bately. Bately was told who and when to kill by Mr. Hyde, since the good Dr. Jekyll could not bring himself to order a man to kill another man and Hyde could not do so yet as he wasn't strong enough.

Although Jekyll's initial formula only worked on himself, transforming him into his "evil" side, it did have some effect on other people as later demonstrated by James Utterson. It removed a persons inhibitions and also had the effect of heightening their potential for violence and suggestibility so that they would more inclined to carry out their more violent impulses. By playing on how these people who scoffed at Jekyll's theories were ruining the Doctor, Mr. Hyde was able to steer Bately into murdering them.

Jekyll was the guardian of Vicky Edwards who would have turned twenty-five that year. His affair with Sarah Lanyon had ended badly in 1881 with her disappearance. His eyes turned towards his young ward Vicky Edwards. Most accounts of Jekyll's do not even mention Vicky Edwards. Victoria Edwards was the daughter of one of Dr. Jekyll's classmates from medical school. Her father died when he caught a disease from one of his patients. Her mother became invalid from the shock of her husband's death. In 1868, Henry Jekyll was working with mental patients and became acquainted with Mrs. Edwards. He was able to revive her health although it was never very strong. Jekyll aided her as best as he was able, feeling an attraction towards the woman. She had however vowed never to marry again. Mrs. Edwards inherited a small estate. Jekyll was named Vicky Edwards guardian in 1871 after her mother died. Unable to take care of a young girl, Jekyll placed her in the best girls schools. Vicky Edwards also stated that Dr. Jekyll always gave her what she asked for, this was simple enough since the money was from Vicky Edward's estate.

When Jekyll perceived a threat to his plans with Vicky Edwards, he transformed into Mr. Hyde and directed Bately to kill Bruce Adams at the theatre Vicky Edwards was performing. Mr. Hyde accompanied Bately. It was Bately that Tubby, Slim and Bruce Adams chased, his brutish features making him seem like a monster. It was Bately that chased Tubby in the wax museum. However when Tubby was locked in the iron maiden, Bately escaped and returned to Jekyll's house. Mr. Hyde had transformed back into Dr. Jekyll. Hearing the commotion in the wax museum he investigated and found himself dragged through the dimly lit building and locked in a jail cell.

When Tubby declared that he knew that Jekyll was a monster, Jekyll realized that he would need to summon Dr. Hyde to remove this threat.

On those occasions in the film when we see Dr. Jekyll plotting with Bately to kill someone, it is actually the Mr. Hyde personality, who at the earliest phase of their transformations, looked like a slightly younger version of Dr. Jekyll.

The incident with Tubby transforming into a mouse was true. Hyde had worked with Dr.Alphonse Moreau and they had a sort of pet project between the,, combining physical transformation with the work on animals but Dr.Jekyll's seeming demise put that to an end.

Mr. Hyde did indeed plan to keep Tubby as an experimental lab rat, it stands to reason that he also meant to keep Slim as well. Who would really care about the disappearance to two discredited former police officers? Dr. Jekyll slipped Tubby and Slim a powerful narcotic so that he and Bately could easily cage them. The powerful narcotic would have placed normal men into a drug induced coma, however while Tubby's and Slim's physiology was affected it did not put them to sleep but rather put them in a psychoactive state. When they wandered off and drank at a pub, the alcohol reacted with the powerful drug in their system; They were indeed inebriated and hallucinating when they visited the police inspector.

The sudden transformation of the laboratory into a wine cellar is easily explained. Tubby and Slim had been drugged before Tubby ever found the lab. It was quite simple for Jekyll to simple alter their route slightly so that they traveled down a nearby set of steps into a small room which was indeed a wine cellar.

Tubby and Slim stayed behind because Jekyll had humiliated them. They retaliated by grabbing some of the more expensive wines and drinking them down.

Bruce Adams did ask Jekyll for Vicky Edwards hand. Jekyll agreed. When Bruce left Jekyll did indeed make a counter proposal, although it was not the demanding selfish one that Jekyll makes in the film. Vicky is flattered but turns down Jekyll's proposal. He accepts it graciously. Vicky left the library and Dr. Jekyll summoned Bately to the library. He injects Bately with some of his serum and hands Bately a filled syringe. Rage and humiliation has made Jekyll transform into the Hyde personality without recourse to the serum, possibly the first time this ever happened.

He planned to have Bately abduct Bruce Adams and inject him with the serum. They would then induce the uninhibited and violence prone Adams  to commit a murder.  Adams would then be exposed as the Serpentine Park Killer and discredited. Vicky would gladly marry Jekyll then.

Vicky walked back into the library as Bately took the syringe from Jekyll. She recognized this man as the one she had seen at the theatre whom Tubby and Slim had recognized as the Serpentine Park Killer. Believing that Bately was attacking Jekyll, Vicky screamed and attacked him. The syringe was knocked into the sofa in an upright position with tip up. Bruce Adams, Tubby and Slim came running into the room. In the melee that followed, Bruce Adams pulled a gun and fired at Bately. He missed and hit Tubby. Tubby was knocked onto the sofa by the force of the bullet that hit his stomach. The hypodermic needle hit him in the posterior and broke off.

Tubby was inebriated from all the wine had had just drunk, he had been shot in the stomach and was in severe pain, he had sat on an needle which broke off in his skin, he had also been injected with a chemical that removed his inhibitions and heighted his violent impulses. In short the chemical in his system along with the rage and pain he felt made Tubby revert to his neolithic behavior. Screaming in his native guttural language he leaped out of the window and began attacking those not of his tribe. Slim followed after him, well aware that it was Tubby he was following but needed to catch him before the idiot made everyone aware of their Secret.

Bately took off in a panicked state, pursued by Adams. His brutish appearance, violent mannerisms and growling attempts to speak made it very plausible to the public that he was the Serpentine Park Monster. Bately eluded all attempts to capture him and made his way to Jekyll's house for sanctuary. Dr. Jekyll however knew that Bately's use had come to an end. Since the poor brute could not speak and because he had indeed committed the  murders, Jekyll had no compunctions against turning him in. He ordered Bately to surrender to the police.

Bately instead grabbed Vicky Edwards and carried her upstairs. Jekyll followed as the panicked Bately held Vicky hostage as he stood next to a window while trying to think of a way out of this situation. Bruce Adams arrival on the scene distracted Bately and gave Jekyll an opportunity to grab Vicky Edwards from Bately's grasp. The sudden movement threw Bately off balance and he tumbled out of the window to his death.

Vicky Edwards did indeed marry Bruce Adams and Dr. Jekyll used his bitter regret to further refine his researches.

The scene where Tubby bit the police officers did indeed happen but they did not stay as "Hyde's" for long due to only a small amount of exposure.

After Tubby recovered from his "fit" Tubby and Slim spent a month or so in prison. After which they returned to  which was their adoptive  homeland for the last four hundred years.

### **Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde: 1884-1885**

In 1884, Jekyll had been in line to get a seat on the board of governor's for the Hosptial of Military Incurables. Sir Danvers Carew had sent Jekyll a personal note requesting that he withdraw his name for consideration. If not Carew as a governor of the institution in question would feel compelled to bring to public attention certain matters which Dr. Jekyll would most certainly wish to be kept silent.

Two days after Jekyll received this note, Sir Danvers Carew was met on the street by Edward Hyde. Hyde provoked an altercation and then on the slightest pretense, beat Sir Danver Carew to death with Henry Jekyll's walking stick.

Henry Jekyll for all his brilliance allowed his growing anger to displace his caution and reason. This murder set off an investigation that caused Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll to be hounded and investigated by Scotland Yard and by the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes. The additional tension of the the cover up of Jekyll's transformations and the fear of exposure, imprisonment and death further unhinged Dr. Jekyll's none too stable mind. Having trouble controlling his transformations and having run out of the particular salt that he needed to create his elixir, Dr. Jekyll decided to end his life and by extension free the world of Edward Hyde. He was by this time becoming truly schizophrenic referring to his other persona as a wholly different person. Yet as his "Full Statement of the Case" demonstrates he switched back and forth between referring to Hyde as a seperate person and as himself as Hyde.

In front of none other than Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Jekyll transformed into Hyde and then drank a vial of carbolic acid. The acid however did not have an immediate effect. Hyde turned on Holmes and Watson and received gunshots through his midsection and chest. This was in 1885. He was believed dead. Some accounts even state that he was buried.

Dr. Jekyll's had a second child: Edward Lanyon Jekyll, born in 1885. He was the result of Dr. Jekyll's love affair with Sara Lanyon**.** Sara Lanyon was the sixteen-year-old daughter of Jekyll's college Dr. Charles Lanyon. Unwilling to shame her family or Jekyll, when she discovered she was pregnant Sara Lanyon disappeared for parts unknown. She sent a tear-stained letter to Jekyll telling of her love for him and telling him about the child to be. Months later he was informed by a short message that he had become the father of a boy named Edward Lanyon Jekyll.

Prior to his "death" in 1885, almost immediately upon hearing about his son, Jekyll had made discreet arrangements with Gabriel Utterson to create a trust fund for his son. Jekyll would acknowledge him as his child. His son would receive a yearly income from some of his rental properties that would be transferred to him upon his reaching maturity he was also to receive properties in Edinburgh and Ireland.

These arrangements were made apart from the rest of Jekyll's estate and so were not numbered among his assets and holdings when he was declared dead.

### **The Jekyll Legacy:1885**

In *The* *Jekyll Legacy* it is revealed that Jekyll had left all of the estate to Edward Hyde but had scratched that name out and replaced it with Utterson's. This reflected the fighting of Jekyll's alters fighting for dominance. Since Utterson was an honest man and having recalled Jekyll had mentioned relatives in Canada did the right thing and made an effort to see if there were any blood relatives to Jekyll that could also inherit.

The truth of the matter is a bit more complex than that. Jekyll swallowed carbolic acid and was shot twice in the chest by Dr. Watson. He was entombed in the family crypt. Imagine Gabriel Utterson's shock when a month after he was buried, Henry Jekyll stopped him on the street and asked to meet with him privately.

Jekyll told Utterson that he had gone into shock but had not been truly dead. However, he was still wanted by the police for the killing of Sir Danvers Carew since Mr. Hyde had, at gun point, forced Jekyll to write that ridiculous statement. Hyde was still at large and Jekyll feared for his life. He was going to live on the continent for a while and needed to arrange things so that he would have an income yet it would still appear as though he were dead. His reputation was in tatters anyway. Utterson would be named the nominal heir but in reality he would inherit a quarter of the estate for payment for the legal arrangements. One quarter would go to various accounts stipulated by Jekyll and the remaining half would be divided between any of Jekyll's relatives and Dido Utterson.

When asked why Jekyll wished a separate arrangement for Dido, Jekyll smiled and said being the youngest, she had always seemed more like a daughter to him. Utterson accepted this statement at face value at first. Jekyll mentioned that he had a brother in Canada but had not communicated with him for years, so Utterson might inquire there for relatives. Jekyll said that he had recently begun to understand why his brother had so hated the Jekyll name and had believed it was cursed. He hoped that by changing his name his brother had exorcised his demons. Jekyll feared that his demons were there to stay.

Utterson met with Henry Jekyll again and brought with him Jekyll's last will and testament. Jekyll crossed out the statement making Hyde his heir and wrote in Utterson's name. Utterson made all of the necessary arrangements including creating bank accounts under various names for Jekyll. This he claimed was to prevent Hyde from finding him.

In his last communication with Jekyll, he made a point of inquiring how Dido Utterson was faring. Gabriel Utterson began to wonder if some of the vile whispers that had surrounded Jekyll and his late wife might have some validity.

Gabriel Utterson hired a consulting Detective, he tried to hire Sherlock Holmes, who had some familiarity with Jekyll but he was too busy. While the detective he did hire, Consulting Detective Blake did not uncover solid evidence that Amelia Utterson had had an affair with Henry Jekyll, he did return with some pretty damning testimony. This had been acquired from various mutual acquaintances of the Uttersons and Jekyll and from employees of the Sanitarium where Amelia had gone after she had her breakdown. The same Sanitarium where Utterson had insisted that Jekyll be named attending physician. He decided to keep his word to Jekyll but not use extraordinary measures to do so.

When Hester Lane appeared in 1885 to claim her part of the inheritance so as to avoid questions about  her portion of the estate Utterson told her that the estate had some suffered some reversals and so was not as quite as large as it had been. It had been in fact reduced to the home that Jekyll had lived in, which was a combination home, laboratory and doctor's office. She later sold the residence for a substantial amount of money. She gave to Utterson all of Jekyll's belongings that were still in the home, especially his scientific journals and notes. Utterson placed them into the safety deposit trust for Jekyll's son.

### **Exile in Paris: 1885-1898**

Jekyll emerged from his grave. He inherited some of his familial trait of Lycranthropy and survived Watson's bullet, reviving sometime later. He was a wanted man and fled to Paris. He has spent his time on the continent, giving into his vices. Hyde had grown into a behemoth and was even more murderous than before. Again this manifestation was most likely a projection of Jekyll's psyche. Jekyll felt dwarfed by the evil he had unleashed. Jekyll no longer needed the elixir to make the transformation, anxiety or anger will do it. It was a matter of the moment as to who controlled the body. although the transformations seemed triggered whenever Jekyll becomes angry or upset. This is something that will also be attributed to a certain descendant of Henry Jekyll. Once in the Hyde persona, it is quite hard for Jekyll to reassume control.

Hyde continued to grow massive. In Paris, he committed murders, which he had barely done before. This led him to be confronted by vampire hunter Gabriel Van Helsing in 1888. Hyde transformed into Jekyll during the battle and lost an arm, though it would grow back over time. He was forced to change his name to "Henri L' Anglais"

In 1890, Sara Lanyon came knocking on Utterson's door to claim her son's inheritance. She had grown into a rather strong willed and sharp minded business woman. Although Jekyll continued to contact Utterson occasionally, Utterson did not bother to tell him that his son had surfaced.

Gabriel Utterson was knighted shortly before his death in 1895. Having no male heirs he left his solicitation practice to a nephew he felt he could trust, John. He explained the situation about Dr. Jekyll with attention to the details of the arrangements he had made with him.

### **League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1898**

Henry Jekyll was a regular patron of prostitutes. However the murder of Anna Coupeau and others by an ape-figured monster made C. Auguste Dupin to fear that the case of Rue Morgue was open again.

After having gathered Allan Quatermain, Mina Harker was sent to find him. Jekyll saw her posing as a prostitute and took her into his apartment, when he transformed once more into Hyde and went to kill her. Quatermain and Dupin showed up and tried to best the monster, shooting his ear in the process, and Quatermain managed to feed it a bottle of Laudanum. Hyde lost his senses and fell through a window. The three companions reached the *Nautilus* and Jekyll/Hyde stayed in a secure room until recovering.

As Dr. Jekyll, he assisted the league in their first mission, finding the stolen Cavorite. He and Quatermain were send to Fu Manchu's lair. There, Jekyll almost transformed into Hyde when the two men were about to be unmasked as spies, but he managed to control himself. Later, when Mina and Allan infiltrated Fu Manchu's underground workplace, Jekyll/Hyde was send to create a distraction. Griffin infuriated Jekyll to such a degree that he became Hyde and begins slaughtering Manchu's henchmen. Hyde also assisted the league in their assault on Moriarty's airship, killing several of the professor's henchmen.

When witnessing the Martian Invasion, the stress of a Martian attacking them caused Jekyll to become Mr. Hyde once more, and he remained Hyde for the rest of the invasion. By this time he had developed a great respect for Mina. He would kill Griffin, an act that greatly horrified and disgusted Nemo.

Hyde played a crucial role in keeping the Martians from crossing the Thames while the army prepared the H-142. Bidding farewell to Mina, he danced out onto the bridge towards an oncoming tripod, singing *See Me Dance the Polka*. The machine attacked him with its heat ray, burning off all his skin and apparently killing him, but he survived, charging into its front leg and ripping it off. With the walking machine toppled, Hyde ripped open the top hatch and began eating the alien inside. The other tripods activated their rays and killed Hyde with a combined barrage, destroying the only bridge left on the Thames and stranding them on the South Bank.

Because of his sacrifice, Serpentine Park in London was renamed Hyde Park in his memory, and a statue of him was constructed in this park.

## **The Descendants of Henry Jekyll and Sara Lanyon**

### **The Utterson Hyde: 1908-1909**

Sir John was not as honest as his Uncle; he siphoned money from the unused Jekyll accounts and pilfered money from the Jekyll trust fund. Sara Lanyon had died of a stroke in 1900 while her son was in Edinburgh studying to be a Doctor. In 1905, When Edward Jekyll came to London, Utterson quickly befriended him. He brought Jekyll into his social circle that also included Dr. Curtis Lanyon, Jekyll's cousin. Lanyon might have overlooked Jekyll's parentage had Utterson's sister Lynn not taken a fancy to Dr. Edward Jekyll.

John Utterson researched the Hyde formula as best he could. While unsuccessful, he was able to obtain an experimental serum intended to replicate Hyde's formula. This serum isolated the traits that allowed Hyde to grow massive and monstrous. It was discovered within the remains of an Arctic fortress that had belonged to Fantomas during an attempt to begin a World War that was thwarted by the remnants of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 1899.Unlike what had happened with Jekyll, the two evil personas led to Hyde asserting dominance.

by 1908, "Hyde" was in total control of the body. He was living in Manhattan, his size, shape and ferocity were consistent with that of the Hyde portrayed in the *The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*. Hyde had committed heinous murders, he had also raped and impregnated a woman named Banner. A visitor to Manhattan, John Clayton AKA Tarzan aided the police in tracking the killer. Tarzan and a gorilla captured Hyde and tossed him off a bridge into the river. As he was falling, Hyde transformed back into Dr. Jekyll. Since he seemed to be resistant to death it is quite possible that he survived the fall. However, it has been shown that occasionally the body of a "Jekyll" will treat the personalities as different people, making it possible for one persona to die but the other to live. This appeared to have happened to the original Jekyll during the Mollusc invasion when he was hit by a Heat Ray, which is why Hyde was in full control for its duration. Utterson's "Hyde" was not seen again and is considered dead while Utterson was not.

### **Edward Jekyll: 1915**

In 1915, Edward Jekyll, now fiancé to Utterson's niece Lynn and a student of Royal Academy of Sciences, was expelled from the academy because of his peculiar and unorthodox experiments. Edward was unaware that he is actually Henry Jekyll's son, and when he inherited the Jekyll Mansion, Dr. Lanyon told him his tragic father's story.

Edward and Lynn moved to the old Jekyll Mansion for the preparations of their marriage, and soon, Edward felt unwelcome by his neighbors. Discovering his father's laboratory, Edward convinced himself to work on his father's experiments in order to clear the Jekyll name. He hired Michaels, Dr. Jekyll's old assistant, and began researching. Unfortunately, after Edward first tested the formula on himself, a Hyde-like man appeared in the house and murdered a number of people. Edward was charged for the murders, and thought insane. He was transferred to Dr. Lanyon's sanitarium where the murders continued. Edward began wondering if it was he who transformed into a murderer or someone else was trying to drive him to insanity.

It was actually Utterson. He wished for Edward Jekyll to perfect his father's formula for himself but also frame and remove Jekyll once his work was done. Utterson could no longer transform into the super strong Hyde and wanted the power and lack of restraint back.

Desperate Utterson broke into Edward Jekyll's house late one night and was stopped by him at gunpoint.  When Jekyll saw who the intruder was he was perplexed. Without thinking Utterson downed Jekyll's formula. It did not change Utterson into a Hyde creature but it did eliminate his inhibitions.

As Utterson launched into a plausible story that explained his actions to Jekyll, he suddenly stopped. Looking at Jekyll with contempt Utterson told Jekyll the exact truth of how he had stolen from Jekyll's trust fund. He then launched himself at Jekyll and attempted to throttle him. Jekyll managed to break free and Utterson ran off.

Jekyll informed the authorities of Utterson's confession. A check of Utterson's business accounts proved that Utterson had bilked Jekyll and other clients. Utterson committed suicide rather than go to prison. This incident ended Edward Jekyll's relationship with Lynn Utterson, which had been more platonic than romantic.

### **Dr.Jekyll and Sister Hyde**

Jekyll acquired full possession of his trust fund and began receiving an allowance from properties in Edinburgh and Ireland. Although the formula had not physically changed Utterson into his evil side, Jekyll persevered. He believed the reason that the formula had failed was because he had not used the particular salt his father had described. At the time he had created the formula Utterson had used, Jekyll was still working with wholesalers to lay in a supply of several sources of the odd mineral salt. Jekyll persevered because using the Jekyll name conferred upon him legitimacy so he wished to remove its taint. It was one thing to be a bastard, it was still another to be the bastard of a madman.

He also was intrigued by stories about the often overlooked property that the formula seemed to have, the restoration of youth. Hyde was according to many sources younger than Jekyll. He believed that the sudden restoration of his youth had flooded Jekyll with hormones. This sudden influx of hormones had made him sexually active and aggressive. This was why people had thought he had undergone a personality change.

Dr. Edward Jekyll took rooms at a house once owned by a doctor. The first floor was a combination of living quarters, laboratory and examination rooms. He provided low cost medical care for the less fortunate. The second floor contained a large apartment leased by the Spensers, a wealthy family fallen on hard times.

Through several wholesalers he was able to procure samples of the particular mineral salt that his father had used. He tried the formula with six of the different varieties before finding one that was effective. He did not test his formula on animals because he felt that that formula worked upon the areas the brain with higher cognitive ability. The sixth sample of salt was from the Tibetan region. He did not believe that it was effective for it took several hours for the transformation to occur.

The transformation took place at night shortly after moonrise. The thyophite in the formula kick started his latent werewolflike abilities. The thyophite radiation in the moonlight triggered the hormonal changes and caused his transformation. Dr. Edward Jekyll did not transform into a hulking, corrupt younger man he instead transformed into a beautiful, corrupt young woman. The werewolf-like qualities of the Jekyll family were shaped by their deepest desires.

Edward Jekyll was sexually confused, attracted to both men and women but mainly to men. As with his father his initial transformation was so traumatic that he blocked out conscious memory of it. In addition to becoming a woman, he had become ten years younger and very uninhibited.

While she was examining in intimate detail the contours of her new body, one of Jekyll's nosy neighbors opened the door. It was the handsome young man who gaped at the beautiful young woman  fondling her breasts in front of a mirror. Covering herself she shamelessly flirted with Howard Spenser. Had he not been called upstairs, she would have seduced him.

Jekyll suppressed all conscious memory of the transformation. Susan Spenser inquired about his sister. Noting his confused look, she said that her brother had mentioned meeting her. Jekyll examined his apartment thoroughly. A notebook contained a description of the transformation process and it also provided details on the form that Jekyll had taken that of a young woman approximately ten years younger than he. The note appeared to have been written in a feminine hand.

Jekyll was elated that the experiment was successful. He had transformed and regains some lost youth as well. He was a bit disconcerted that he had transformed into a woman. He was determined to try again, after all the restoration of youth was of paramount importance. His next few attempts at transformation were failures however, despite using the exact same solution.

He determined that the cause was an imbalance of female hormones. His initial transformation had leeched his body of necessary female hormones. Therefore he needed to replace them in order to transform. Some recent evidence suggests that Jekyll's conscious mind prevented the transformation from occurring. He could not accept the fact that he actively wished to be a woman. So as a defense mechanism his mind concocted an additional necessary element.

At first he used his position as a Doctor to gain access to the city  morgues and hospital morgues. However the women had to meet a strict standard, young and freshly dead with no serious illnesses. His removal of the female organs also elicited commentary. After these mutilations were noted, some morgue attendants would no longer allow him to examine any of the bodies for any amount of money.

Jekyll was desperate to continue his experiments. He wished to isolate the youth restoration factor without causing other physical transformations so he could benefit mankind. This is at least what he convinced himself rather than admit that what drove him was that he enjoyed being a woman and an uninhibited one at that. Jekyll made arrangements with a couple of Black Mariah drivers, they were morgue wagon drivers who drove around the city and picked up dead bodies. For a premium price they bring to his practice some suitable female corpses. He would remove the organs he needed and they would take the corpse to the morgue. Jekyll did not know and probably did not want to know that the morgue drivers began killing prostitutes so as to have a steady supply of the corpses.

Jekyll was spending his days working on various combinations of the formula seeking the chemical fountain of youth. He was distracted by this avocation by Susan Spenser, his young beautiful neighbor. She was very attracted to Dr. Jekyll and pursued him as assiduously as a woman in her position and time could. Jekyll responded timidly to her flirtations. Although he was attracted to her his response was mostly a reaction against his female counterpart's open sexuality in pursuing men. Rather than admit that Edwina Hyde's activity brought him pleasure, Jekyll forced himself to maintain a relationship with Susan Spenser.

At night Edwina Hyde would go out and frequent pubs, gambling halls and places of that sort. She would flirt and become very aggressively passionate with various men, although she always stopped short of actually having sex with them, often to the anger of her chosen partners. She was more of  a tease than actually promiscuous, although it was not that she did not wish to consummate the relationship, Edward Jekyll would prevent her from doing so, horrified as he was by the thought of actually having sex with a man, despite his absolute craving for it.

When she was about to do the deed, Jekyll would begin to interfere and Edwina would end up with a splitting headache. So she used one of the most common excuse for avoiding sex but with good reason.

Professor Robertson was a former Professor of Jekyll's from Bart's. Only a few years older than him, Robertson was also a good friend of Jekyll's. Robertson continually tried to persuade his young friend to not waste his youth spending his whole time in a laboratory, work and play had to go hand in hand, otherwise what was the point of living. Robertson was a bit of a Don Juan and  always tried to get Jekyll to join him his escorting the ladies about town. Jekyll admitted to him that some of his research revolved around female hormones.

During the course of his teaching duties, Robertson comes across several prostitutes with broken necks and who have had their sexual organs removed. The women were not butchered but had been surgically opened and stitched up. To his dismay and shock, Robertson recognized the style of cutting and stitching as that of his pupil, Edward Jekyll. He suspected Jekyll and took it upon himself to make certain that his suspicions were correct before bringing the matter to the police.

Robertson saw a beautiful young woman leaving Jekyll's house unharmed. He followed her into a pub. To his surprise she walked up to him and called him by name. She informed him that her name was Edwina Jekyll, Edward's sister. He had told her all about him. Professor Robertson took this opportunity to ask her about some of her brother's activities, telling her he was worried about what his obsession with his work might lead him to do.

To his delight, Edwina suggested that they retire to his rooms to discuss the matter more closely. Professor Robertson told Edwina that while he did not believe that Edward was personally involved in the deaths of these prostitutes, the trail could lead back to him. However Robertson also revealed that he was the one who had recognized Jekyll's surgical techniques and that he had not yet informed the police. He did wish to discuss the matter with Edward.

Edwina asked for some brandy. When Robertson returned with the glasses, Edwina was nude. She kissed him passionately. Robertson responded. Robertson had been with many women but never with so passionate a virgin. She matched his libido with her own and surpassed it. Falling asleep with post-coital lassitude, Robertson awoke and briefly saw the sharp point of a dagger he had gotten in the Dahomey pierce his heart. In his dying shock Robertson was certain that he saw a naked Edward Jekyll standing before him.

Edward Jekyll reacted with absolute revulsion at what is alter ego had done. She had sexual congress with a man and not just any man but one of his oldest friends. Like a Black Widow she had killed her sexual partner. When Jekyll was through vomiting he dressed in some of Robertson's clothing and ran out of the apartment, leaving the dress behind. It would be better if the police looked for a woman.

Jekyll did not even wish to dwell on the why Edwina had consummated her relationship with Professor Robertson. Yet it does bear some examination. The fact of the matter is that she did so because Jekyll allowed her to do so. This is because he had been attracted to Professor Robertson but had never allowed himself to explore those feelings. When Edwina had kissed Robertson it had been a dam of buried emotions bursting free.

Shocked by what he had done, Edward Jekyll put aside his work and began to actively pursue his relationship with Susan. To counter the memories of Edwina and Professor Robertson, Jekyll made an all out effort to woo Susan. It was not all that difficult. She made only a perfunctory resistance when he became sexually aggressive with her. After consummating their relationship however she began to discuss marriage plans, she apparently was under the apprehension that their sexual union was a form of betrothal.

After Susan left to discuss the arrangements with her family, Jekyll felt the urge to escape. Since his formula was depleted, Jekyll went to look for his two suppliers. He discovered that they were dead. They had been discovered killing a young girl, had been beaten and hung by an angry mob. Jekyll worried that they might have mentioned his name to the mob prior to their deaths.

As he returned to his home he discovered via newspaper that the police were seeking Professor Robertson's killer. They sought a woman or a man dressed a woman. This too caused him great distress.

Seeking to escape from his mounting pressures, Jekyll overindulged in alcohol. When he became intoxicated Edwina Hyde emerged for the first time without recourse to the transformation formula. She dressed in a gown and began to prepare to go out for the evening when Howard Spenser knocked on the door.

As the nominal male of the Spenser household his mother had insisted that he discuss with Dr. Jekyll the various arrangements for the marriage between Dr. Jekyll and Susan. Howard Spenser was informed that Dr. Jekyll had gone to the hospital to attend to a patient. She invited Howard in for a drink. Edwina seduced Howard Spenser, believing it was only fair if Edward had a Spenser so should she.

Howard Spenser crept up to his family's apartment late the next morning. Edwina still lay in bed sleeping. Edward Jekyll had not returned as of yet.

Edwina Hyde awoke and was shocked to discover that even though it was daytime she was still in possession of the body. She laughed triumphantly after a day had passed and still she remained in control. Edwina however had to keep lying to Susan Spenser as to the whereabouts of Dr. Jekyll. After two weeks however Susan was becoming increasingly strident and hateful. Edwina was in no mood to put up with her adolescent behavior due to feeling under the weather herself, she had been experiencing stomach pains and tenderness in her breasts.

Edwina told Susan that Edward had bolted at the prospect of marrying her. Susan reacted rather violently and Edwina was forced to strike her, knocking her to the floor. Susan screamed that Edward would never desert her, that Edwina was jealous, Edward had always told how jealous Edwina was of him.

Edwina Jekyll found herself in a legal quagmire. Susan had gone to the police with the accusation that Edwina had done away with Edward. The Police investigated this and upon discovering Jekyll's connection to Professor Robertson had begun to investigate the possibility she had committed that crime out of jealousy. Then a woman came forward and stated that Edwina Jekyll had often been seen in the presence of those two men who had been lynched for killing prostitutes.

Edwina Jekyll attempted to flee but was caught. She was quickly tried and convicted by scientific evidence of having killed Robertson. She was sentenced to hang; Robertson had been very well liked. However the hanging was to take place after her baby had been born. Edwina had found to her horror that the reason she could not change back to Edward because once she had conceived her body had been biologically locked into the female form**.**

Edwina had received a visit from Susan Spenser shortly before she was due to give birth. To her ironic surprise, Susan Spenser was also hugely pregnant. While weeping copiously Susan had told Edwina Jekyll angrily that she wanted to see Edwina that she had not successfully killed off Edward's legacy. He had left behind a child. Although Susan's family was making her give it up.

Two days after Edwina Jekyll gave birth to a baby boy she disappeared from the women's infirmary. It was all rather mysterious. According to guards the only person that was seen leaving was the young man from the foundling home who had come to pick up the baby. The foundling home claimed never to have sent anyone.

Edward Jekyll left London and fled to the property he had inherited in Ireland. He lived there for a while working on his formula without success. He named his son Howard Jekyll and raised him in Ireland and England. After his son had gone away to school, Jekyll began to take his transformation drug again. His assistant was Loomis, the son of the previous caretaker. Loomis the younger was a medical doctor. Having seen Jekyll's transformation into Edwina, he showed Jekyll his own ability to transform. Loomis and family were lycanthropes(also known as Werewolves). Loomis insisted that Jekyll must be part lycanthrope, a notion Jekyll thought absurd.

Edward Jekyll located his daughter by Susan Spenser by using private detectives and arranged for her to inherit this Irish estate. Loomis agreed to be the caretaker for the estate as his father had before him. Jekyll arranged for his son to inherit the properties in Edinburgh and London. Edward Jekyll, unlike others in his extended family aged normally, he also did not have very good recuperative powers, if he was injured in one form it carried over although it did heal quite a bit faster than a normal man's injury would.

Edward Jekyll was forty-two in 1927. He had not achieved his life's dream, he had never truly found anyone to love and he was revolted by his own sexuality. He would transform into a woman and lay with men to achieve sexual satisfaction, yet he was incapable of functioning as a man. In a fit of extreme depression, Edward Jekyll drank carbolic acid, followed by a silver nitrate solution. One of the two did him in.

### **Daughter of Dr.Jekyll: 1933**

In 1933, a lawyer informed Janet Smith that upon her reaching her majority she now inherited an estate in Ireland. Susan knew that she had been adopted but had no idea that her true parents were wealthy. She and her fiancée George Hastings arrived to take possession of the estate.

Almost upon arriving at the estate, Janet Smith began having nightmares in which she transformed into a monster and attacked young women. When young women were found dead as she had dreamed she was certain she was losing her mind. The kindly Doctor Loomis was very solicitous of her health, after she had revealed her dream to him he informed her that she was in fact the daughter of Dr. Jekyll the famous werewolf. She had probably inherited her father's curse. Dr. Loomis worked with her to discover a cure for her condition. The townspeople are blamed her for the deaths.

Almost upon arriving at the estate, Janet Smith began having nightmares in which she transformed into a monster and attacked young women. When young women were found dead as she had dreamed she was certain she was losing her mind. The kindly Doctor Loomis was very solicitous of her health, after she had revealed her dream to him he informed her that she was in fact the daughter of Dr. Jekyll, who he claimed was a famous werewolf. She had probably inherited her father's curse. Dr. Loomis worked with her to discover a cure for her condition. The townspeople blamed her for the deaths.

George Hastings was however quite suspicious of this whole business and of Dr. Loomis especially. He discovered in the past, that prior to Janet and George's arrival Dr. Loomis usually left the estate for a few days every month, usually around the time of the full moon. Hastings secreted himself in Janet's room. He heard Dr. Loomis hypnotizing Janet after giving her a sedative. Dr. Loomis gave Janet a detailed description of her next dream.

George Hastings quickly gathered up a few of the townspeople and told him what he had overseen. Most of the townspeople refused to believe an unkind word about the saintly Dr. Loomis but a few listened to Hastings. They managed to stop a hairy man beast from killing a young lady by shooting at it and driving it away. The townspeople followed Hastings to the Jekyll estate and they found Dr. Loomis dressed in tattered clothing. He started to convert to a wolf but weakened by blood loss he was overpowered. Realizing that it would be best to pretend to be dead, he did just that. Loomis had a young son named Samuel.

Janet Smith was exonerated of the crimes. She put the estate up for sale. She and George Hastings went back to live in America. Samuel Loomis went with them before going his own way.

Dr. Loomis also had to move on and went to the United States. He could no longer live in Ireland with his identity of being a were-wolf uncovered. He had tried to use Janet Smith to prove his theory that Jekyll was actually form of werewolf but had failed. He had previously taken great pains to cover up his tracks and had killed his victims where he did not live or he had chained himself up at night. Samuel Loomis would battle and kill his father. Afterwards he would become a psychiatrist. His life changed when he became the psychiatrist of Michael Myers. Myers would escape and become a serial killer, attempting to kill his sister Laurie Strode. Samuel Loomis would become obsessed with killing Myers, believing him to be pure evil.

In an odd bit of synchronicity Dr. Edward Jekyll's grandson and Janet Smith's nephew also encountered a werewolf.

### **The Toon Years: 1954-1955**

Henry Jekyll, the grandson of Edward Jekyll/Edwina Hyde and the son of Howard Jekyll had become a medical doctor and a psychiatrist. Yet he could not escape the stigmata of his famous name. Although he denied any desire to emulate his father or grandfather, he did in fact conduct medical research on ways and means to control human behavior. He believed that James Clark Wildman Jr. had proven that evil propensities could be eradicated through medical means, although Wildman would never reveal the exact method he had used. Wildman's disappearance in 1950 and an inability to recreate his methods had the effect of discrediting Wildman's findings.

Hoping to discern himself from his family name, Jekyll moved to a district of Angel Grove, near Toon Town, a land inhabited by Toons. This would provide more problems than Jekyll would have expected.By using tissue and blood samples of humanoid Toons. Jekyll began to use the materials from the Tooniverse to create a serum. However because he was using chemicals derived from "toonstuff", it had an off effect. The chemical portion did in fact turn Jekyll into a "Hyde" but a toon version of Hyde more monster than man. Because this formula was made of Toonstuff, any "Hydes" created would shift back and forth between their Jekyll and Hyde forms, usually unaware of the other. Given the nature of Toon Stuff, the transformations back and forth happened "with comedic timing". for instance if one Toon would see the Hyde and then run to get someone else, the Hyde would revert back to the "Jekyll" form, making the person appear to be a liar and then continue to change back and forth to keep up the "Joke". The Toon "Jekyll" seemed to be unaware they transformed, usually showing confusion once they reverted to normal.

Some smart aleck Toon kept painting over Dr. Jekyll's name and replacing it with Dr. Jerkyl. Dr. Jekyll went to get some paint remover and had only returned in time to see his formula affect other creatures in the Tooniverse.

Apparently two sentient Toon dogs named Spike the Bulldog (also known as Alfie) and Chester the Terrier had chased the Toon cat Sylvester into the laboratory. The cat drunk some of the formula and had been transformed into a Hyde type creature. The Cat attacked and scared Alfie, who ran from the lab. Chester (never seeing the Hyde form as Sylvester kept changing back and forth) urged him to return and face the cat since in his cat form Sylvester was far weaker than Spike. Sylvester returned to normal and fled but a fly had drunk the formula and turned into a giant Hyde fly. It tore the Toon dog to pieces as well. (*Dr.Jerkyl's Hide,* 1954,Warner Bros cartoon).

Jekyll learned of the incident from the toon dogs, Jekyll enticed Sylvester to visit his lab by leaving out a saucer of milk. He then took a tissue and blood sample from a piece of fish Sylvester ate. Jekyll made some modifications to his formula and drank some. Unfortunately it still turned him into a Toon Hyde. Sylvester would keep coming back and stay in the neighborhood as Jekyll kept feeding him. By coincidence, Tweety, a Yellow canary was in the neighborhood.

Sylvester chased Tweety into the lab. Tweety drank some of the formula and became a giant yellow Hyde. The bird kept reverting back and forth. As soon as the bird reverted to his normal self, Sylvester would chase and capture him. Whenever Tweety's fear of imminent death became overpowering he would revert back to the Hyde form and then chase Sylvester. The Tweety Hyde eventually ate Sylvester. Since Toons can't really died, Sylvester regenerated in a few hours after Tweety spat him out and convinced himself it had only been a dream.Until he saw Tweety reenacting similar actions he had taken earlier that day and became fearful the same events would play out. He ran for his life as far as possible. (*Hyde and Tweet,*1960).

Feeling that he would never achieve a break through without a test subject like Sylvester, Dr. Jekyll decided to get a rabbit. He carefully fed carrots to a rabbit at a nearby park for days before gaining the sentient rabbit's trust. This rabbit was actually the famous toon Bugs Bunny, who was trying to manipulate Dr.Jekyll into giving him free carrots. Dr.Jekyll was also tricking Bugs as he had pretended not to recognize him to use him as a subject. He even found it funny Bugs called him "Doc" because he was an actual Doctor.

He painted a glowing picture of the luxuries that the rabbit would have if he came to live with him. Dr. Jekyll lead the rabbit to his room, which was indeed luxurious and plied him with carrots, washed down with carrot joyjuice.

When the rabbit had passed out Dr. Jekyll took a blood sample that he added to his formula. He tried the formula once more. It still had the same effect, however his transformations from one state to another took place rather frequently. The strange monster that kept appearing terrified the rabbit. It is only after witnessing the transformation that the rabbit realized that the Doctor was the monster.

The Doctor promised not to drink anymore of the formula if Bugs would stay and even poured the formula down the drain. Jekyll noticed that the rest of the small amount of formula he had left was gone, he asked Bugs if he drank it. Insulted Bugs stormed out of the house. On his way back to his hole he transformed into a Hyde rabbit while still retaining his persona (Toonstuff was once more to blame as it "decided" it would be funnier if Bugs didn't notice). People ran screaming from him and he could not understand it. It is only after returning to his rabbit hole and seeing himself in a mirror that he realized what had happened. He returned to Dr. Jekyll and they found an antidote for Bugs Bunny's condition (*Hyde and Hare,* 1955).

After that Henry Jekyll believed himself to be done with the Hyde formula and toon Stuff. He really meant it when he had gotten rid of the Serum. He left Toon Town and went to England.

Henry Jekyll believed that a chemical treatment would leave the brain undamaged and still retain all its functions. However in the course of his experiments, people died. His assistant Sandra took care of the disposition of such failures. Dr. Jekyll was too focused on his work. It was his focus on his work and his rather dispassionate demeanor that lost him the love of his life, Justine. Although he suppressed the most of the high sex drive that ran in his family, he occasionally found release with his assistant Sandra. When Justine left England, Sandra was certain she would have Dr. Jekyll all to herself.

### **Calvin Zabo: 1963-2015**

While not related to Dr.Jekyll, Calvin Zabo had stumbled onto some of the Jekyll family's research. Zabo noticed only as a growing obsession with the legendary work of Dr. Henry Jekyll. He studied all he could on the subject  and began assembling supplies and equipment to recreate the experiment of Dr. Jekyll. Unlike Dr. Jekyll, Zabo did not have a fortune upon which to draw so he created one by embezzling money from his employers in a variety of ways.

Samuels would work as a medical researcher with purchasing authority but he would bilk his employers and then move on before the theft was discovered. He usually arranged to have evidence point to someone else should the thefts be discovered at a later date. However good he was at covering his tracks, his frequent job changes did not have the record of stability that many employers wanted.

In early 1961, Zabo interviewed for a medical research position with Dr. Donald Blake. Blake however was more diligent about checking references than most Doctor's Zabo had encountered. This may have had to with Blake having some secrets of his own. He was the host of the spirit of the Thunder God Thor, following his death in World War II where he had been summoned by the Nazis and forced to obey them until being killed by revived Kratos and Wonder Woman. The worship of the Nazis had also led to his appearance changing from red haired beared to a blonde hair blue eyed Aryan. Thor could only exist on earth through the use of a human host. This was Dr.Donald Blake. Mjolnir would be disguised as a walking stick until Blake needed to transform it and himself into Mjolnir and Thor respectively. If Mjolnir was separated from him for too long, Thor would revert to Blake. eventually this was no longer needed and Thor would gain a full physical form on Earth, allowing Blake to pursue his own life. At this time however, Blake was still a host of Thor. Blake was also something of a sleuth not unlike his relative Daphne Blake and discovered a disturbing pattern of monetary losses that often accompanied Zabo taking a position with a company. He mentioned to a few of Zabo' former employees that they ought to begin investigating and see if possibly there was a connection.

Dr. Blake turned Zabo down flat and had the audacity to lecture him in a round about manner about honesty and making up for misdeeds.

Zabo suddenly discovered that he could not get a good job with any reputable medical research firm, thanks to Dr. Blake's sub rosa blacklist and character assassination. He took a job testing cosmetics on animals. Left to his own devices he used the company facilities for his own research. He finally succeeded in creating a formula that he thought was a duplicate of Jekyll's.

Unfortunately their work had resulted in a partial fusion between the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personalities, making Dr. Jekyll less uprightly rigid and moral. The newer Hyde personality was primarily composed of Jekyll's desires for vengeance and violent rage. This Hyde was however not as intelligent as the previous versions of Hyde and much more prone to enacting fatal violence. The modern Hyde was the personification of Zabo's rage, a walled off section of the mind where the aloof Zabo's resentment, slights and grudges rested.

When the Hyde personality emerged, the first thing he wished to do was to avenge himself on the last person who had crossed him, Dr. Donald Blake. Hyde went to Dr. Blake's office but found that the Doctor was on a call. He amused himself by humiliating Dr. Blake's receptionist/nurse, stripping her and slapping her about. He was working himself up to raping her when Dr. Blake returned to the office.

Hyde battled with Donald Blake, finding the Doctor much stronger than he expected. Hyde managed to flip Blake out of a window where was certain to slam against the sidewalk three floors below. Hyde hurried down to make certain Blake was dead and if not, to finish him off. The body was gone! Returning to the office he also found the nurse/receptionist gone.

Zabo was aware of Mr. Hyde's activities and how Dr. Blake had apparently escaped justice. Discovering that Dr. Blake was not only alive but hale and hearty, Zabo began a smear campaign, starting false rumors that Blake was a junkie, an abortionist, a bigamist and a fraud. Although for the most part no one believed the rumors enough people did that Blake's practice suffered for it. Yet not enough to suit Zabo. Zabo wanted Blake's reputation tattered like Zabo's own reputation had been or failing that, Hyde wanted him dead. Dr. Blake managed to turn public opinion back to his favor by saving a child from a burning building, although admittedly with the help of Thor.

Zabo began to believe that this Thor had saved Foster and Blake from him the first time round. Zabo discovered that a dinner was being held in Blake's honor for some medical research he had made some stride in. Zabo decided to get revenge on Blake and Foster and also to draw out this mystery man so Hyde could give him his just desserts.

Drinking his new potion, Zabo once again transformed into Hyde. As Hyde he entered the restaurant where Blake's dinner was being held and kidnapped Blake and Foster at gunpoint. Forcing them into Blake's car he forced Blake to drive them to a large abandoned warehouse on the river. Hyde had previously ascertained that there was not anyone around and that there had not been any activity at the warehouse for some time.

Once inside the warehouse, Hyde discovered that the place had once been used to store many vehicles, or so the tire tracks and grease spots seemed to indicate. He tied Blake and Foster up and waited for Thor to appear. When Thor did not arrive after some time, Hyde explored the warehouse a bit further. It was very bare but for empty storage crates, dust and rats. However he found a trapdoor that lead down to a sub basement, the subbasement was very interesting because it lead into a small submarine pen. There was a small two or three person submarine suspended over the water by a hoist. The electricity did not work so Hyde smashed the hoist chain and dropped the submarine into the small watery holding area.

This submarine was probably left over from one of the many crime fighters that plagued New York in the  thirties and forties, which Hyde had only heard about by word of mouth. Had he been around of course they would have fallen to his mighty intellect and fists or so he reasoned. This Thor character was one of a new resurgence of such interfering do-gooders.

Hyde had a dim idea of using the submarine as a means of achieving vengeance on the medical firms that had wronged him. He could sabotage them and then disappear, using the sewer system to wend his way through the city. The slight flaw in his plan was that the submarine turned out to be inoperable. Its control panel had been gutted. In a momentary rage, he completely demolished the submarine's control panel. Hyde found the destruction intoxicating and arousing.

Eyeing the cushioned leather chairs, Hyde tore the leather cushions off and threw them on the submarine's floor. He reasoned that the submarine should protect him from the blast. He returned upstairs and informed Doctor Blake that if he had a means of contacting Thor, he should do so. He placed a time bomb next to Blake's chair and told him that if Thor did not rescue him by allotted time he would be so much confetti.

Hyde told Blake that if Thor wished to see him, he would be downstairs, entertaining Miss Foster. Hyde grabbed the screaming woman and carried her down to the submarine. He sustained several cuts and bruises from her, which infuriated and excited him. Hyde stripped her of her clothes and bound her with the torn pieces. She fainted but he slapped her awake. A loud banging cacophony resounded through the submarine. Hyde felt like a serial villain always being interrupted at just the right moment

Enraged he squeezed out from the Submarine's hatch and turned around. A bolt of electrical force accompanied by a hammer slammed into his chest .The blow seemed to have the concussive force of a locomotive While still electrified he fell into the water. The shock greatly drained his strength. He clambered out of he water and rolled over on the dock. He saw Thor standing there.

As Hyde pushed himself to his feet,Thor swung the hammer around. The hammer began to crackle and spark. When thrown the hammer looked like a streak of lightning flying directly at Hyde's chest. It hit him with another electrical concussive blow. This sapped even more of Hyde's strength. Since the time bomb was going to go off in a few moments, Hyde decided discretion was the better part of valor and dove into the submarine pen. Hyde swam down to its exit and out into the river.

Weakened by the ordeal, Hyde let Zabo take all of the pain and fatigue and faded back into Zabo.

Returning to his apartment and laboratory, Zabo spent a few days recovering from the electrical shocks that he had received. His hatred for Blake and Thor filled his thoughts. He received a, visitor, a tall man with a shaven skull and a goatee.

Without preamble the bald headed man told him that he knew Zabo was the mysterious man who had abducted Dr. Blake and Miss Foster from the awards banquet. Before Zabo could offer a denial, the man told him that his price for silence was cooperation in destroying Blake and Thor. Zabo listened. The man did not give his name but rather a cover name of Cobra. He claimed to be a member of an organization to which Blake and Thor had some enmity towards.

Cobra said they would invade Blake's office and make him summon Thor. Cobra and Hyde would take Thor's hammer away from him and kill Thor and Blake. Cobra waited on the street for Hyde to join him. Zabo drank his potion and became Hyde.

Donald Blake once again proved to be stronger than he seemed. He was able to hold off both Hyde and Cobra and make an escape out of his office, locking a reinforced door office door behind him.

By the time Hyde and Cobra had broken down the door and exited into the main hallway of Blake's building, Blake was long gone. Standing in the hallway was Thor. They barely had time to register the fact before the sparkling hammer knocked them down like bowling pins. Bowling pins however did not usually contort from an electrical discharge.

Cobra was shocked to insensibility. Hyde shook off the effects of the hammer's blow and charged Thor just as he was catching the hammer. He caught the mystery man off balance and managed to knock the hammer from his grasp.

With his rage enhanced strength, Hyde managed to get some good blows in against Thor, whose strength seemed to be waning. However strong as Hyde was he was not a scientific fighter with centuries of martial experience. Despite Hyde's advantages in weight and strength, Thor defeated Hyde with unarmed combat techniques, flipping him far enough away and hard enough into a wall so that Thor had a momentary respite which he used to retrieve his hammer. Hyde fell with a hammer blow to the head.

Calvin Zabo's hatred of Blake and Thor had blindly led him into a fate he had previously avoided. He was branded a criminal. Both he and Cobra were arrested and held over to stand trial. Zabo had all the more reason to hate Donald Blake and Thor.

When a man named Loki, obviously using another code name, paid for Cobra and Hyde's bail, he instructed them to kidnap Jane Foster once again. This Loki was certain would draw Blake and Thor to save her. Both Cobra and Hyde believed that this plan was overly used and prone to failure but Loki insisted. Hyde once more captured Jane Foster in front of Dr. Blake, threatening to snap her neck like a chicken bone if Blake did not send Thor to a certain address.

The location where Jane Foster was held was a secluded house in Westchester County that Loki had booby-trapped. Thor arrived and was trapped in a room that was flooded with tear gas. While Thor choked and coughed, Hyde who wore a gas mask attacked him. The hammer's electricity field ignited the gas causing an explosion that knocked Hyde into another room. Cobra was knocked back against an electrical grid in another part of the house and was knocked unconscious. Jane Foster was in the room adjacent to the explosion and was seriously wounded.

Thor used his Donald Blake's medical knowledge to stabilize Jane Foster and then called for an ambulance and the police. Thor disappeared and Dr. Blake appeared on the scene. The police captured Cobra and Hyde. Jane Foster was rushed to a hospital.

Calvin Zabo irrevocably embarked on a life of crime when he and the Cobra escaped from the police vehicle injuring the officers inside.

Over the next few years Calvin Zabo worked with the Cobra, although not necessarily the same one. The Cobra were members of a Thuggee type sect from India who worship the sacred Naga. A member of Cobra was assigned to aid Hyde in committing crimes in return for which, Hyde would aid the Cobra in carrying out various missions. The Cobras assigned to Hyde were in his opinion, rather incompetent. Despite Hyde's great strength and the Cobras purportedly being trained to the peak of physical conditioning , Hyde and Cobra were met and defeated by men without innate superpowers such as the Daredevil and Captain America. Eventually Cobra ended their association with Hyde by leaving Hyde in prison while Cobra escaped.

Hyde spent quite a few years taking vengeance on the members of Cobra. He was thwarted in his vengeance on several occasions by Captain America and the Daredevil and a few times by Spider-Man. As his frustration and anger grew, as stifled rage blossomed. The Hyde persona was humiliated so many times that he began to regress and revert to Zabo and seeked to reform.

Zabo joined Doctors without Borders under the false identity of Calvin Johnson, where he met Jiaying while In China. Jiaying was a member of the Inhumans. They would meet in the early 1980's. On July 2nd 1988, they married and had a child, Daisy Johnson. In 1989, Calvin and Jiaying were discovered by Hydra, who were fascinated by Jiaying's immortality. Jiaying was abducted. Hydra experimented on Jiaying, removing all her organs, believing they had killed her, they dumped her body and left it for Calvin to find. His daughter was taken by SHIELD in his absence. Jiaying recovered and she swore revenge, having developed a hatred for humanity. Calvin became more and more unhinged and the two divorced. Zabo would become an enemy of SHIELD, eventually running into his daughter Daisy. When he was captured, he used his formula to go on a rampage before coming to the conclusion that Jiaying's planned Inhuman War with SHIELD was a mistake. Calvin aided the SHIELD team and saved Daisy's life by killing his wife and nearly himself. SHIELD chose to give him false memories, allowing him a fresh start and a happy life. He has yet to relapse and possibly never will.

After keeping his Hyde form restrained for so long, when he did unleash his Hyde it was nearly identical to his "Jekyll" form.

### **Dr.Jekyll and Mystery Inc: 1969**

The line of Jekyll's stemming off of Henry Jekyll's love affair with Sara Lanyon had at least one more descendant. This was the son of Janet Smith and George Hastings. Janet had told him about his "illustrious" heritage and he had decided to cash in on being Dr. Jekyll's only living relative. He soon found however that because of all the literary and dramatic representations of his ancestor's life most people regarded the name with suspicion rather than respect

Finding a small talent for prestidigitation, Robert Hastings worked at a variety of small carnivals and circuses using the stage name of Dr. Jekyll. He picked up acrobatic skills and other arts that he incorporated into his act. He had a variety of the vanishing act in which he disappeared and reappeared dressed in a Hyde outfit. Despite his moderate success, he had enough money to retire early. He claimed to have had invested wisely. He stated that he was going to devote the rest of his life to uncovering the truth about his ancestor.

Robert Hastings a.k.a. Dr. Jekyll took up residence in La Mirada, Florida. He chose the location for its beauty, its isolation, its nearness to Sarasota, (where many circus folk either retired or wintered) and because of its mysterious history( The Events of *Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein* occurred there).

Mystery Inc. was a private detection agency specializing in investigating odd mysteries and had exposed many hoaxes, debunked many con artists and demonstrated the trickery behind many supernatural occurrences. The investigation team consisted of four precocious teenagers and their dog.

An encounter with the Beast led to a chase which ended at the home of Dr. Jekyll, the great-grandson of Henry Jekyll. There the Mystery Inc. Investigators heard Dr. Jekyll's story of how he had been working to develop a super-vitamin and thought that his experiments had accidentally stumbled on his grandfather's formula. The only difference he said was that he turned into the ghost of Mr. Hyde (he never said why he believed his Hyde was a ghost.) and somehow winded up with jewels in his pockets.

The investigators followed a trail of clues led back to Dr. Jekyll's housekeeper Helga. They found a bottle of knock-out drops among Helga's possessions and thought that she may have been inducing Jekyll's mysterious blackouts. They also found part of a newspaper article that someone had tried to burn up. The charred paper showed that Helga was once a circus performer who did a human-fly act. Things were looking bad for Helga when Shaggy accidentally found a set of suction cups hidden in a bowl of fruit.

When the investigators caught and unmasked the Ghost of Hyde it was really Jekyll.  He was a washout as a scientist so he decided to turn to crime as he had before. He set things up so that it would look like Helga was committing the crimes and trying to frame him.

Helga had been an acrobatic performer in a circus in her youth. Further investigation revealed that the Dr. Jekyll was not a Doctor and that his name was not Jekyll. His circus past was also uncovered. Shaggy and Scoobert were nearly killed when they uncovered the cache of jewels hidden in the swamp and guarded by alligators.

Robert Hastings was revealed as the true jewel thief and was brought to justice. He had wished to frame Helga for personal reasons that neither would divulge. Daphne told the others that she had discovered despite Helga's twenty years maturity over Jekyll she and he were lovers and she had desired to end their relationship. He had taken it rather badly.

The Beast of La Mirada remained a legend until 1998. The Beast of LaMirada was Mr. McDougal of McDougal's House of Horrors who had been turned into a werewolf by the bite of Lawrence Talbot.

### **Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo: 1971**

Justine married Emmerich Belasko, an older businessman and avid hunter. An Immigrant from Hungary Belasko took his bride to see his homeland. Belasko and Justine went exploring in the woods, although warned by an innkeeper not to do so, since a monster prowled the woods. Belasko and Emmerich were attacked but not by a monster but rather by some greedy lowlifes who wished to rob Emmerich and rape Justine. Emmerich was killed and Justine was nearly raped but Waldemar Daninsky rescued her in the nick of time.

Daninsky took her to his family estate. Daninsky was a werewolf who inherited the tendency from his ancestor Inre Wolfstein through Andre Rojas, a descendant of Rex Rufus. The Daninsky's were not merely lycanthropes but were cursed ones. This particular curse originated oddly enough from a relative of Emmerich Belasko. Bela Belasko was the son of Dracula; he was also a werewolf.

Even though Justine was informed of Waldemar's curse she still fell in love with her rescuer. Justine believed that her friend Henry Jekyll could cure Waldemar. Then Waldemar and she could be together.

Henry Jekyll was quite disappointed that Justine had taken up with someone else so quickly after losing her husband. Someone other than him that is. He did not believe her story but agreed to help Daninsky, believing that once Daninsky was cured of his neurosis Justine would lose her fascination with him. He also thought that would be a great opportunity to test his grandfather's formula.

Waldemar Daninsky arrived at the Neurological Researches Clinic on time but the elevator he rode upon became stuck between floors. Another passenger, a nurse was stuck in there along with him. When the moon rose Waldemar transformed into a werewolf and slaughtered the nurse. Amidst the growls and screams the workmen managed to pry the elevator doors open. The Wolfman escaped and went on a killing frenzy.

After this incident Dr. Jekyll believed Justine's story and was certain he knew of a way to cure Waldemar. Moments before the full moon Waldemar would be injected with the transformation formula created by Jekyll's grandfather. Theoretically Waldemar would  change to a Hyde creature, the personality of which should overpower the bestial persona of the Wolfman. Jekyll would then inject Waldemar with an antidote for the transformation formula and Waldemar would be freed of both the Hyde and Wolfman.

The first time that they attempted the experiment it failed, Jekyll reasoned that this was because the Waldemar's blood contained too many wolf-like traits especially in the days leading up to the transformation. To get around this Jekyll replaced some of Waldemar's blood with some of his. They had the same blood type.

Sandra, Jekyll's assistant and mistress was jealous of Justine and angry with Jekyll. Even when Justine had married an older man and then took up with a monster, Jekyll still preferred Justine to Sandra. Sandra tried to interest Jekyll in the commercial opportunities that this formula could bring about if it were successful but Jekyll was noncommittal.To him the achievement was in the creation of a successful formula.

The experiment was partially successful. The combination of Jekyll's blood and Waldemar's innate lycanthropy allowed the formula to release Waldemar's Hyde. As Jekyll was about to give Waldemar the antidote for the serum, Sandra stabbed Jekyll in the back. She believed she could control Waldemar's Hyde. She sent Waldemar's Hyde to rape Justine and then had him string her up and whip her. Afterwards he raped her again.

Sandra soon discovered that Waldemar's Hyde did not take well to being controlled. He beat Sandra and raped her. When he was finished he left lying Sandra unconscious on a barn floor while he went out for a night on the town. While Waldemar was gone and Sandra lay unconscious,  Jekyll rose up from the floor. Jekyll was still alive but just barely. He managed to make his way to Justine's room and freed her. They escaped. Jekyll died on the way to safety. He managed to tell Justine that Waldemar's Hyde would fade without Jekyll's blood to sustain it. When the moon rose again, Waldemar would again be a Wolfman and Hyde would be gone for good.

Waldemar's Hyde displayed many of his lycanthropic tendencies of cruelty and bloodlust. Additionally he sought constant sexual satisfaction, which he combined with murder. He is known to have killed at least one woman, a prostitute whom he strangled after sexual intercourse.

When Waldemar's Hyde felt himself fading, he demanded more of the formula from Sandra but she did not know how to make it. In retaliation, he killed her. He went prowling the Soho nightspots looking for women. The Hyde faded moments before the moon rose. When it did the werewolf came forth. He rampaged through the nightclub and the Soho district before finding his way to this current lair.

Justine was waiting for him. He fought with her and nearly killed her but she managed to shoot him with a silver bullet. Justine expired, as did most of the women in Waldemar's life.

## **The Descendants of Henry Jekyll and Amelia Utterson**

We have deal with the descendants of Sarah Lanyon first because they were the ones that bore the Jekyll name. In this section we will deal with the descendants of Henry Jekyll through Amelia Utterson.  They had one daughter Dido Utterson born 1870.  She was raised by Gabriel Utterson, never knowing that Henry Jekyll was her father. It is possible she never discovered the fact.

Dido Utterson married in 1893 to Robert Farrell. He was a widower with a young son, also named Robert. Despite his modest family fortune, Robert Farrell was ambitious; he had an idea to become a writer but knew he would have to become independently wealthy to do so. His many business ventures while moderately successful did not provide him with the big boost of wealth he needed. In 1895 Dido gave birth to Ellen Farrell, the couple's only child. When the Klondike Gold Rush started in 1896, Robert took his entire family to New York where he bought a Long Island Mansion. Robert Farrell went to the Canadian gold fields and took his ten-year-old son thinking it would toughen him up.

Three years later he returned with a small fortune in gold but without his son. He and a few others had been trapped by a snowstorm; his son had volunteered to go for help but had never returned. He assumed that he was dead. This was unfortunately not the case. Young Bob Farrell had been "rescued" by a man named Beauty Smith who had forced him to work as a virtual slave to pay off his "debt"  of being rescued. Young Bob Farrell finally escaped from Beauty Smith after Weedon Scott  forcibly bought his prize-fighting dog. Smith became drunk in a tavern and passed out in the street.

Bob Farrell took the opportunity to escape from Beauty. He made worked his way down the Coast taking jobs as a logger, fisherman and cannery worker. He met a girl in  and settled down when he was but sixteen years old. His sons were David Farrell and Daniel Farrell. David became a newspaper man. Some of his exploits were broadcast in the radio serial, Front Page Farrell. Dan Farrell became a FBI agent during the heyday of the Bureau in the Thirties and Forties. He retired in the mid-sixties to head up Crime Magazine part of the Howard Publications.

### **The Hyena: 1917**

Robert Farrell never took up writing seriously as he had previously wished, the death of his son had taken away his desire. He instead became part of New York Society Life. Ellen Farrell was a debutante and reveled in the society life until the sudden death of her parents in a boating accident in 1916. She felt the need to get out of her regular environment and went to visit her father's cousins, the Strolvaus in . While staying at the Strolvaus' ranch, she flirted with another distant cousin of hers, also an American; a young man named Steve. He was about seventeen years old and was from Virginia. He had the worst case of race prejudice she had ever seen in a person and wondered why he had ever bothered to come to Africa .

This notion became steadfast when a hyena attacked Steve while he was riding with Ellen. He claimed that Senecoza was jealous. Ellen laughed at the idea.

One morning a month or so later, Ellen and Steve were out riding when twenty warriors surrounded them. Steve shot two of them and he was knocked from his saddle by a thrown war club to the head. Ellen's horse ran off in panic. He saw Senecoza rush up and seize his horse and hurry after Ellen. Steve was certain that he was hurrying after Ellen to rape her.

Steve was bound hand and foot and carried to Senecoza's. The natives informed them that Senecoza was the leader of a plot to drive the white men to the sea. He further hinted that Steve would eventually grace the cooking pot. Steve saw Ellen riding towards the encampment with Senecoza behind her. Her horse stumbled and fell, throwing her. Senecoza leapt from his horse and seized her in his arms. Ellen fought against him and he tore his jacket off to pieces, binding her with the pieces.

Steve took advantage of this to escape and killed his guard. He ran towards the nearest ranch to warn them of the impending attack. He found Ellen's horse riding free and rode it to Smith's ranch passing up the raiders as he did. He warned the ranchers and they fired upon the Masai as they approached the Ranch, killing many and scattering the rest.

After the raid had been thwarted, Steve went looking for Ellen. His horse colliding with another horse riding for the ranch. Ellen was bound hand and foot. Steve cut her loose and was attacked  by Senecoza, first by knife and then by a gun he had secreted in the bush.

He sent Ellen on her way to the ranch and went looking for Senecoza. She went only reluctantly. After Ellen had gone, a hyena attacked Steve. He shot it in the chest. It ran off. Senecoza was found the next morning in his hut, dead of a gunshot through the chest.

The surviving public record of this incident is Steve's account and so we have been left with a distorted and biased account. Steve viewed the African Native as something that had to be kept in his place, yet like all oppressors he always feared an uprising. This perspective colored his perceptions on the events that occurred.

Ellen Farrell also left an account and it differs in many particulars from Steve's however her account  may also be biased.

What appears to have been the truth of the matter is that there was indeed an uprising and Senecoza was the instigator of it, although indirectly. Steve was correct in assuming that Senecoza was not native the area, he was from Zanzarim. He had been educated in Europe and had returned to Africa with three goals in mind to educate Africans, to help African's achieve political and social equality and to end the insidious slave trade. He had been forced to leave Zanzarim because the Colonial government feared that educating the Africans would incite rebellions.

Senecoza's overly enthusiastic approach to teaching and political education did have the effect of inciting a few overly excitable and impressionable people to violent rebellion. Senecoza had thought that might be possible and had prepared for that eventuality. He was on the constant watch for it so he could quell any rebellion before it started. In this particular community his words were seen almost as sacred since he was widely regarded as a fetish man.

There was an incident in which a minor chief had a disagreement with Senecoza and was attacked and killed by a hyena. This was attributed to Senecoza. This minor chief was supplying Arabs from Zanzaibar with slaves from neighboring tribes. Senecoza had tried asking and bribing him to stop. The chief responded by trying to kill Senecoza.

Senecoza was distracted and did not see the danger signs of a rebellion until it was almost too late. His distraction was Ellen Farrell. Unbeknownst to Steve, Ellen Farrell had met Senecoza and found him intelligent and passionate as well as extremely handsome. Despite her social upbringing, Ellen found herself in a passionate love affair with the native African.

The natives that surrounded Steve and Ellen were the rebels, they were indeed going to rape Ellen and kill Steve. However not on Senecoza's orders but rather because they had misinterpreted what he had taught them. Senecoza arrived on the scene to rescue the woman he loved. He was chasing her runaway horse when Steve was captured. Ellen refused to return to the ranch without Steve and rode to rescue him. Senecoza demanded that she return to her ranch where she would be safe. She rode away from him. He chased and caught her tying her up so she would not run off again.

Steve escaped and alerted the ranches there was a general uprising of the natives. There were in fact the ten or fifteen men that Steve had encountered earlier. Senecoza had urged the Masai to send out warriors to stop the rebels lest they cause a general uprising that would bring swift and terrible retribution upon the Masai. The warriors were also supposed to reassure the ranchers that there was not a general uprising.

Steve's warning however ended up getting several of the Masai warriors looking for the rebels to be shot.

Senecoza had finally convinced Ellen to return to her cousin's ranch until they were certain that the hostilities were over. He kept her tied in case she was shamming. When he was taking Ellen to the ranch, his horse collided with Steve's. Steve quickly freed Ellen and told her to run away. Ellen took off running.

Senecoza saw her running straight into danger. With a scream of rage and hatred he attacked Steve. He hated Steve for being a superior white bigot, he hated Steve for getting dozens of Masai needlessly killed and he hated Steve for placing his woman in danger, where she could be attacked by scattered remnants of the rebels or slavers.

Steve killed Senecoza. A couple of months after Senecoza's death, Ellen returned to the United States  and checked into a private sanitarium. Ellen Farrell had brought back someone from her African vacation; she was pregnant by Senecoza. Ellen Farrell's daughter was born in 1918. She would later regret the decision but she elected to give the daughter up for adoption. Her main reasoning is that the little girl would be a constant reminder of Senecoza's tragic death that she could never publicly mourn. Times being what they were, a great deal of controversy would occur if unmarried, she brought home a daughter, especially a daughter that was quite African in appearance and coloration. We will return to the daughter and her descendants in a few moments.

As a method of dealing with her grief from the loss of her lover and the loss of her daughter, Ellen Farrell threw herself into the whirlwind of New York Society Life. Yet she remained spiritless. She found herself caught up in a romance in which she had no real strong feelings. It was however comforting, stable and would be approved of by society so lacking the energy or inclination to end it; she eventually accepted the proposal of marriage. Her new husband was Fred Buchanan of the Long Island Buchanans. Fred's cousin Tom was moderately famous due to the scurrilous slander written about his family in Nick Carroway's *The Great Gatsby.*  Despite Ellen's persistent drinking problem she became pregnant six years into their marriage.

Fred was elated, finally an heir. The son was born in late September 1929. Ellen developed a post-delivery infection and died about a week later. While Ellen lay dying, the world went to hell. Fred's fortune evaporated in the Stock Market Crash, they were destitute. He had even used the family estate as collateral and it too would be lost. When Ellen died, he slipped into a depression. When he found her diary and read how she had had an affair with an African and had delivered a secret child of this union. He looked at his own child with horror and disgust. With nothing to live for, Fred put a bullet in his head. He had written a short terse note in which he blamed Ellen for all their woes, also stated that the child was probably not his.

### **The Nutty Professor: 1963**

The Kelps, a couple who had just lost their second son, adopted the baby boy. They named the adopted child Julius. The Kelps were a very unhappy family. Winifred the mother was a shrill, demeaning, belittling. Yet she also was over protective in that she did not allow the boys to play outside the home, they grew up with very few social skills and without much exercise. They read as much as they could however. They were also on a tight budget because Mrs. Kelp used much of the money for her collection of movie magazines.

The adopted son Julius displayed an uncanny facility with chemistry. He won several prizes at Science Fairs. He skipped a couple of grades and went to college early. Julius managed to get an early doctorate and decided to take a job where he could teach and conduct research. Besides being very gifted, Julius was also the prototypical nerd or nebbish. His Mother's domination of his psychological and physical growth had made him into a physical weakling without much self-esteem.

When it appeared as though Dr. Kelp was going to fail the star quarterback of the football team, the quarterback roughed him up and crammed him into a shelving unit in the classroom. Dr. Kelp was rescued by a female student with whom he was seriously infatuated. Since there was only about five years difference in their ages, this should not be misconstrued as abnormal or untoward. Humiliated to the breaking point, Kelp told the University Dean about the incident. The Dean was less than sympathetic, being a big football supporter. He told Kelp to settle the problem like a man or take it like a man. He furthermore warned him that charges were filed against the boy that Kelp should start looking for another position.

Kelp tried all sorts of methods to build his muscles but his background had not given him the necessary wherewithal to put up with the pain and fatigue that the exercise caused. Nor did he have the patience for a long regime of physical training.

Julius Kelp turned to his specialty of chemistry to make a quick fix, he thought he could design a super-vitamin that would cause raid muscle growth. His efforts were promising failures. He began researching hormones in correlation with muscle tissue studies. This brought to his attention the work of Edward Jekyll. He made a modification of the formula of Edward Jekyll combined with his own super-vitamin formula. It was still a failure.

According to Jekyll's research there was a key element in the transformation formula's: the certain mineral salt. Using more advanced microscopic technology than had been available to Edward Jekyll, Julius Keelp examined several varieties of these mineral salts. He was astonished to find they contained microscopic bits of an unknown element. He recalled an unknown element that had achieved some notoriety in the early part of the century. Reading the accounts of Doctor Benet, Kelp learned that certain applications of radiation from Radium X built up healthy tissue whereas other applications destroyed tissue.

Kelp located at much personal expense a small quantity of the mineral salt containing minute amounts of Radium X.

He drank his concoction but it took several doses before the thyophite particles activated his latent theriomorphism. As with the other transformations the initial transformations took place at night at the time of full moon. Dr. Kelp's hidden desires were to be strong, to be handsome and sexy. His Hyde was shaped by pop culture. There were two famous crooners who were often partners and were known to be friends. They both had the reputation for being tough, manly, handsome and were pursued by women wherever they went. Julius Kahlbaum's subconscious formed Duke Mitchell and Johnny Fontaine into one persona. Kelp's first transformation was horrific, but only for the first time. Once he transformed again the process was quick and painless if a bit awkward, with Kelp's voice changing first. Kelp named his alter ego Buddy Love. Buddy Love functioned much like Hyde was originally meant to, rather than creating a split personality it was more of a release of inhibitions or altering the mind so that Julius became more confidant and charismatic. Unlike Hyde(and the second Buddy Love that will be discussed later) Buddy Love did not turn against Kelp or even begin to intentionally or unintentionally take over his body. Love was Kelp and his Serum similar to someone putting on a costume and playing a character. It helped that Kelp actively tried to bring Buddy Love back when he needed him rather than tried to destroy him and then tried to make the Serum last longer, giving Love no reason to antagonize him if they did become split personas.

Kelp, in his Buddy Love persona became extremely popular, even having a short career as a singer with a popular song "Black Magic". While he was performing the song he began to change back, with his voice becoming the weezy and grading voice of Kelp. He then stopped the performance and began to deliver an impassioned speech to everyone about human nature as he turned back to Julius Kelp in front of everyone.

Kelp eventually wrote a paper citing his belief that Radium X was the same substance that had transformed Dr. Jekyll but he was virtually ignored.

### **Dr.Black, Mr.Hyde: 1976**

A middle class African-American family adopted Ellen Farrell's daughter by Senecoza. Her adoptive father was a doctor based in Harlem. She was named Ida Mae. When Ida Mae was seventeen her head was turned by Jack Kelly. He was a handsome, smooth talking light-skinned man who claimed to be a salesman for lightening products. Over her parent's objections, Ida Mae eloped with Jack Kelly.

Jack Kelly as it turned out was a flim-flam man, the son of a conjure man from down Georgia way. He was also a member of Bumpy Johnson's gang. He was also a no account dog of a man who when things got hot for him-because he stole from Bumpy,  used her as a decoy and took off, taking with him their two year old son, b.1936. Ida Mae tracked him to California  but lost the trail after that. She could not find any trace of her baby.

Ida Mae went to nursing school in Angel Grove and met and married a young construction worker named Rudy Jensen. They had one sweet little girl named Anna Pearl. Anna Pearl Jensen married Cletus Klump.

Ida Mae's first child was foisted upon some of Jack Kelly's Californian relatives named Pride. Kelly went out to look for a job and never returned. The Pride's raised the boy named Henry as their own child. The Pride's were hard working fundamentalist Christians. Henry was thoroughly indoctrinated in this belief system, yet because of his strong theriomorphic heritage from Jekyll and from Senecoza, Henry Pride had a strong hormonal activity that manifested as a strong sexual drive and sexual aggressive. His (foster) father beat those urges out of Henry until he learned to suppress them on his own.

Henry became a medical doctor and a researcher. Because of his stoic, rather staid nature and his by the book outlook he was labeled by many of his fellow African-Americans as an Uncle Tom. When he was just thirty-six years old, Dr. Henry Pride found himself dying of liver disease. As a medical doctor he searched for a cure, although he subconsciously felt that it was divine punishment. Dr. Henry Pride also worked at a free clinic where he came in contact every sort of vice and degenerate behavior imaginable. This being the seventies, the women would often come in for treatment in the most revealing and suggestive of clothes. It was because of their overt temptations that Dr. Henry Pride had fallen into sin.

He made assignations with prostitutes and loose women and then once the act was accomplished he would pray for forgiveness.

When Henry Pride began his research into finding a cure it was during the peak of the Black Power era. His refusal to discuss politics or take part in community activities caused many of his co-workers and patients to call him an Uncle Tom, a label that wounded him. He had taken a great deal of abuse as a young man from racists while working his way through college and medical school. His reaction was to ignore their mouthings and continue to do the best job possible and show them how wrong they were by good works.

Henry Pride sought every avenue of cure available to him; he had all but lost hope when he discovered an article written in an obscure medical journal. The article was by Dr. Julius Kelp. Kelp theorized that a specific mineral salt was Radium X Dr. Pride dismissed Kelp's conclusion that the notorious and so far as Dr. Pride knew fictional Dr. Jekyll had used such a element.

Dr. Pride began reading up on Radium X, discovering that Dr. Felix Benet described how it could be used for a variety of medical treatments. 1974 were utilizing Radium X utilized on a small scale by various scientists, physicists and medical researchers. Dr. Pride was able to obtain a few granules from one of his former medical school classmates. He had only done so because of Dr. Pride's imminent death.

The experimental serum was taken over a period of a month. It seemed to be effective, Henry was experiencing a loss of symptoms, had more energy and his blood count becoming normal. However he soon began to feel sharp pains in his joints and bones, his muscles were subject to spasm and he experienced moments of great visual, auditory or olfactory clarity or enhancement. This led him to believe the serum was affecting his brain. This diagnosis was further evidenced by Henry's increased propensity towards anger and also an almost overpowering sexual desire.

As the full moon rose, Henry Pride could no longer control his evil compulsions and sought release from a prostitute. She knew Dr. Pride and despite conducting business with him was quite sarcastic with him. Asking him what an Uncle Tom wanted with a real Black Woman etc. When he took longer than his allotted time, she became abusive calling him a variety of racist names and phrases harping on the theme of his manhood and his supposed subservience to the White Power Structure.

Henry Pride's hyde came forth and savaged the prostitute and killed her. His theriomorphic form was quite interesting from a sociological and biological point of view. Because of his heritage from Senecoza the hyde form had something of the Hyena about it, yet because of his heritage from Jekyll it was also shaped from his subconscious. Imagine a stereotypical Racist presentation of the Savage Negro, color that paper white, give to it blond hair and blue eyes. Now add Hyena jaws and claws and you have some idea of what Dr. Henry Pride's monster from the id looked like.

Dr. Pride would continue to change at night whenever angry or overly aroused. He blamed prostitutes for his downfall and they became his primary targets. He assaulted them sexually, murdered and mutilated them and also cannibalized them. The police thought they were looking for a white man who killed African-American prostitutes and then savaged them with an attack dog.

One detective Lt. Jackson however was open minded enough to figure out what was happening. He shot and killed Dr. Pride in his Hyde form. Even Lt. Jackson was slightly shocked to see him revert to the form of Dr. Pride. In most of Jekyll's theriomorphic descendents the gunshots would have not brought about true death for their theriomorphic abilities of rapid tissue regeneration would have eventually repaired the damage. However because of the infusion of Senecoza's genes, which was from that of a theriomorph who was vulnerable in any form to any harm, Dr. Pride was truly killed.

### **The Klumps: 1996**

Thirty-three years after Dr. Julius Kelp's experiments a similar experiment was carried out. Ida Mae Jenson's grandson Sherman Klump was a biologist specializing in endocrinology was searching for a chemical treatment that would burn fat and allow a person to remain thin and muscular with a minimum of exercise. During the course of his research he came across Dr. Kelp's research and it resonated with him(an unpopular nerd scientist and subject of ridicule who turned to chemistry to create a way to become fit without exercise). He corresponded with Dr. Kelp by email. Dr.Kelp's double identity was publicly known and surprisingly both Buddy Love and Dr.Kelp were popular in France, Love because of his singing and attractiveness and Kelp because of his unintentional antics and clumsiness being found amusing there. Kelp and Klump met in person once, people who witnessed this had difficulty understanding what they were saying.

Klump's formula combined with Kelp's research did produce a formula that caused some weight loss but had the side effect of aggressive or increased sexual behavior. Kelp reluctantly admitted that the active ingredient in his formula was a form of Radium X. He sent Klump one of his remaining samples. Kelp had by now realized that there was a genetic component that caused the transformations and considering Klump's background and his that there was little possibility of any genetic similarities.

Sherman Klump was getting tremendous pressure from his Dean to publish or perish. Although his blood samples showed some promise that the formula worked, other human blood samples did not. Animal tests merely showed a marked increase in hormonal activity. In desperation Sherman Klump began drinking various mixtures of the formula. Because of his tremendous weight it took more than the normal amount of thyophite to work on him so it took longer than average for the formula to work. Yet Sherman Klump also needed an emotional and a radioactive trigger for the transformation to take place.

While out for a walk one evening, Sherman Klump saw the girl of his dreams in the arms of another man. Anger,  jealousy and the full moon provided the transformation triggers. Dr. Klump transformed himself into an idealized, sexually charged version of the current box office draw, Kitt Ramsey(the star of the film *Chubby Rain*). He was influenced by the filmed version of what he realized must have happened to Professor Kelp. The only problem was that he persona was more hostile than Kelp's had been. This persona, after it was killed "Buddy" by someone, remembered the story of Professor Kelp and called itself Buddy Love.

Although Klump's alter ego was harder to control than Kelp's had been, Sherman Klump eventually learned the same lesson that Julius Kelp had thirty-seven years before. Klump managed to cage Buddy Love and stop the transformations with beta blockers until he grew extremely nervous about his upcoming nuptials in 2000.

### **Return of Buddy Love: 2000**

Buddy Love started emerging to sow trouble. His fiancée however detested Buddy Love so Sherman Klump decided to get Buddy out of his system once and for all. He isolated the components of his brain chemistry and blood makeup that went into making Buddy Love and flushed them from his system.

The components of Buddy Love became a sentient, fluid form. A dog hair provided the fluid form of Buddy Love with genetic substance that allowed him to transform into a full grown adult. By isolating Buddy Love, Sherman Klump had accidentally succeeded in doing what Edward Jekyll had wished to do, find a youth restoration formula.
Buddy Love stole this formula from Sherman and attempted to sell it. However since it was comprised from a by-product of Sherman and Buddy's separation, there was only one sample.
Although Buddy and Sherman had no desire to be reunited they were forced to do so, neither of their bodies could withstand the separation process and both began to suffer cellular degradation. After Buddy had finally collapsed into the gelatinous state, Sherman drank him down. Sherman Klump was married shortly thereafter. Although as of yet we do not know if Sherman Klump has totally succeeded in suppressing his alter ego.