Hello again R. L. Stein Story Club members. I'm Ivy, your host with the most and keeper of those strange and spooky tales from the hidden vault of R.L. Stein. Today is another chilling tale.

This historically creepy tale story club members might make you think about the monstrous

side of human nature. It's one I call hide and seek. The year was 1888. After his father's

untimely death, Hank Jekyll went to live with his aunt Margaret. She lived in the outskirts of London.

His father, the famous Dr. Henry Jekyll, had experimented

with chemicals that transformed him into Edward Hyde, a truly evil man. After Hank's father, as Hyde,

hurt and even killed a few people, the police had tracked him down. His father drank poison to

stop Mr. Hyde from hurting anyone else for good. But in killing his

evil alter ego Edward Hyde, Dr. Henry Jekyll had also killed himself. So, his son Hank, now an

11-year-old orphan, was taken in by his father's cousin, Margaret Green. She had no kids of her own,

so she welcomed the young Hank into her life. Hank had previously gone to an upstanding academy in the city, the best that money could

buy.

However, the Greens were not as wealthy as Dr. Henry Jekyll had been, so Hank had to go to a public

school.

And every day, Hank was terrorized by this huge boy named Tommy the Terrible.

His real name was Thomas Turnbull, but that's what everyone called Tommy,

because he was so mean. He was the strongest boy in school and bullied everyone. Hank had complained

about Tommy's mistreatment of him to the school administration, but nobody would do anything about it.

The Turnbull family had a lot of political influence in the area, including at the school,

so the headmaster could

not expel Tommy the Terrible. Every day, it seemed, Tommy the Terrible would shove or trip Hank.

One day, he almost made Hank fall down a flight of stairs that would have injured or killed him.

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