... the perfect setting for a gothic novel as it enhances the feeling of terror and mystery. Dracula also contains a flavour of gloom and horror by using weather as an important kind of metaphor. Stoker uses "dark rolling clouds...heavy air...oppressive sense of thunder..." to put forward some elements of mystery, danger and supernatural, by doing so we can instantly tell that something bad is going to happen. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The stark contrast between the elegant new town of Edinburgh, where he grew up, and the slums of the old town may have given him a perspective for creating the setting for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". As a child Stevenson was often in poor health, and he experienced intense nightmares. He later said that many of his ideas for his writing came to him in his dreams Since his mother was often ill, his ...

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