Remixed Classics (Kalynn Bayron) Books in Order

Kalynn Bayron's entry in the Remixed Classics line sits inside a bigger idea. The series invites authors from a wide range of backgrounds to take famous older books and rebuild them through a different lens. These are not sequels or stitched-together shared plots. The through line is the act of reclamation itself, taking stories from the old canon and asking who was missing from the center.

Bayron's choice is Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and she leans hard into the fog.

Her novel, My Dear Henry, moves the story into Victorian London and follows Gabriel Utterson, a Black queer teen law clerk trying to understand what has happened to his closest friend, Henry Jekyll. Their lives were knocked off course by scandal and separation, and Gabriel returns carrying old hurt, old longing, and a stubborn need for answers. When Hyde enters the picture, familiar and unsettling all at once, the book turns into a gothic mystery about secrecy, desire, and the parts of a person the world teaches them to hide.

That makes Bayron a strong fit for this project. The original Jekyll and Hyde is already obsessed with split selves, performance, and the fear of what lives underneath respectability. Bayron keeps that tension, but she shifts the emotional center. In her version, the monster story is tangled up with loneliness, social judgment, and the pressure of moving through a world that is already ready to misread you.

London matters here.

This is not a decorative backdrop with a little fog laid over it. The city sharpens the stakes. Reputation matters. Whispers matter. Safety matters. The Gothic machinery is still in place, but Bayron uses it to ask different questions about visibility, shame, power, and the cost of dividing yourself to survive.

If you are browsing Bayron's corner of Remixed Classics, that is the main thing to expect. This is a standalone retelling, not a long-running series with cliffhangers, but it carries the same mission as the larger line. It takes a book people think they know and opens a door to a more personal, more haunted, and more emotionally immediate version of the story. Readers who like queer Gothic, classic literature with a fresh point of view, and mysteries where the emotional stakes matter as much as the plot will probably feel right at home here.