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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Three Short Stories with Varied Themes - Horror, Lunacy, and LoveBy Michael WischmeyerRobert Louis Stevenson is best known for , , and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but he also created a remarkably varied collection of short stories. This Dover Thrift Edition, titled The Body Snatcher and Other Tales, offers three tales: The Body Snatcher (1881), The Merry Men (1884), and (1890).In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century grave robbers provided stolen corpses to medical schools for dissection in anatomy classes. On occasion grave robbers took short cuts, apprehending and murdering individuals on lonely backstreets in London, rather than making a somewhat arduous and risky journey to a rural cemetery. The Body Snatcher is one of Stevenson's most popular short stories, and has been published in many anthologies, especially collections of horror stories.The Merry Men are not inebriated revelers and party-goers, but a local name for fearsome, pounding breakers along the rocky cliffs of a Scottish isle named Aros. This isolated location is the setting for a tale of greed and lunacy.The Bottle Imp is a clever tale of a genie trapped within a round-bellied, narrow-necked, milky white glass bottle. The imprisoned imp satisfies all that the bottle owner desires - love, fame, fortune. But there is a catch: for if a man dies before he sells it, he must burn in hell forever. Despite this ghastly premise, Stevenson has woven an intriguing tale of love and adventure, and of good and evil.

A dark night, a graveyard and the suspicion of murderhellip;The Body Snatcher is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most chilling tales. After many years, a chance encounter between two former medical students forces them to recall their sinister past and foul play that was better left buried. Perfect for long winter nights, these stories have been specially selected to create an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty. Read by Roy McMillan, with Naxos AudioBooks' trademark of carefully chosen music.

From Library JournalStevenson suddenly is quite popular again, with several of his books coming back into print. This bargain volume includes the cover story plus "The Merry Men" and "The Bottle Imp." In Stevenson's home town of , stealing corpses for sale to medical students became so prevalent that the city built high walls and even guard towers around cemeteries to keep the living citizens out and the dead in, so his story is based on truth. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.From the Back CoverRenowned as the author of such popular adventure stories as Kidnapped and Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson also wrote gripping tales of terror and the supernatural. Stevenson's considerable gifts as a teller of tales shine brightly in this choice collection of three of his best short stories.The Gothic tale of "The Body Snatcher" concerns a young medical student's dealings with grave robbers who provide corpses to dissect and studymdash;a practice that takes on increasingly sinister dimensions. Swirling seas, dangerous reefs, and inhospitable islanders provide the grim backdrop for a tale of greed, lunacy, and unbridled fear in "The Merry Men," the name given by the inhabitants of Aros to the fearsome breakers that pound their tiny Scottish isle. "The Bottle Imp"mdash;an intricately told tale of love and adventure, avarice and envy, and good and evilmdash;centers on a magical bottle that provides its owner with all he desires, but at a great cost.This exceptional collection of tales will thrill admirers of the author's craft as well as aficionados of classic horror stories.Dover (2001) unabridged republication of three stories selected from standard editions.

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