Books like The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson reads as dark, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe · 1841

Same classic feel

58% genome match

Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]

Ambrose Bierce · 1924

Both explore morality

59% genome match

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897

Same classic feel

83% genome match

Wieland

Charles Brockden Brown · 1798

Same horror feel

57% genome match

Kwaidan

Lafcadio Hearn · 1904

Both explore morality

54% genome match

Lord of the Flies

William Golding · 1954

Same classic feel

64% genome match

The monstrumologist

Richard Yancey · 2009

Both explore morality

55% genome match

Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1993

Same classic feel

54% genome match

Carmilla

Sheridan Le Fanu · 1871

Same horror feel

49% genome match

50 great horror stories

John Canning · 1969

Same horror feel

52% genome match

The rescue

Joseph Conrad · 1920

Same classic feel

53% genome match

The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural

Bill Pronzini · 1981

Same horror feel

52% genome match