"The great horror stories of the 19th century—starting with Radcliffe, then entering the popular bloodstream with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)—represent the most significant contribution by British writers of the past century to the mass culture of this one."
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Reported in Peter Kemp (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations, 2nd ed. (2003), p. 127
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