Many innovations were created in the 1850s and 1860s. This was the time when submarines were invented, the first elevator was created, and solar flares were discovered. Through all these world-changing discoveries, one author was beginning his illustrious career. Robert Louis Stevenson is a famous British author who wrote many fictional novels. His most notable works include Treasure Island, The Garden of a Child's Verse, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Most of these stories contain traces of his life under pressure and misunderstood. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was heavily influenced by Stevenson's nightmares, illnesses, and fascination with good versus evil. Throughout his life Stevenson had a vivid imagination and eventually contracted peculiar but interesting dreams. One night, he is said to have had a terrible nightmare. “…having a nightmare. It woke him up. He was in fact having a nightmare, but when he woke up he complained that he had not reached the end of what was proving to be a fascinating story” (“Robert” Magill, 1860). The dream was described as a dream about a transformation scene that was implanted in the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His imagination was easily detectable in the story. Like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, many settings in Stevenson's other novels were once figments of his imagination ("Robert" Rollyson, 885). There is indisputable evidence that Stevenson's dreams influenced the writing of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the sixth chapter of the novel, Enfield and Utterson are taking their weekly Sunday walk and pass the door that the men once saw Hyde... in the center of the paper... Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson.» Bipolar world. np, January 5, 2014. Web. March 7, 2014.“Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Novels for students. Ed. Elizabeth Thomason. vol. 11. FarmingtonHills: Gale, 2001. 196-197. Print.Meyers, FW “Letter to Robert Louis Stevenson.” Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage. Ed. Paolo Maixner. London: Routledge and Kegan, 1981. 219-222. Rpt. in Criticism of nineteenth-century literature. Ed. Cherie D. Abbey. vol. 14.Kansas City:Gale, 1987. 315-316. Press. "Robert Louis Stevenson". Magill's survey of world literature. Ed. Frank N. Magill. vol. 6.New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993. 1854-1860. Press. "Robert Louis Stevenson". Notable British novelists. Ed. Carl Rollyson. vol. 3. Pasadena: SalemPress, 2001. Press 883-885.Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York: First Printing by Signet Classics 1987. Print.