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Supernatural Tales
ISBN: 9781847495204
240 pages
RRP: £8.99 Original price was: £8.99.£7.19Current price is: £7.19.
Alongside his celebrated Gothic horror story ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, this volume contains all of Robert Louis Stevenson’s supernatural tales, showcasing both his mastery of the genre and his interest in the otherworldly and the weird ways the human brain can distort reality.
Also included are ‘The Body Snatcher’, the chilling tale of an avenging ghost; ‘Olalla’, one of the great horror stories in the English language and possibly one of the best werewolf stories ever written, and ‘The Waif Woman’, in which Stevenson tries to recreate the style of an Icelandic saga and explore the destructive effects of greed.
Contents: ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, ‘Markheim’, ‘Thrawn Janet’, ‘Olalla’, ‘The Bottle Imp’, ‘The Isle of Voices’, ‘The Body Snatcher’, ‘The Waif Woman’
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Also available the Supernatural Short Stories Collection
Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in Edinburgh in 1850, to strict Calvinist parents, Robert Louis Stevenson was a famous Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer. His ill health meant that he spent the latter part of his life voyaging the world, in an attempt to find a climate that suited his health, and this contributed to the exoticism of much of his work. He finally settled in Samoa, and died in 1899. Revered during his lifetime, and often harshly underrated since his death, Robert Louis Stevenson is today recognized as one of the the great writers of the nineteenth century, having influenced authors such as Graham Greene, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov.
