Supernatural Tales: Annotated Edition [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume contains all of Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural short stories, showcasing both his mastery of the genre and his interest in the otherworldly and the strange ways the human brain can distort reality.

They include The Body Snatchers, 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 tried to recreate the style of an Icelandic Saga and explore the destructive effects of greed.

Contents: The Body Snatchers, Thrawn Janet, Markheim, Olalla, The Bottle Imp, The Waif Woman, The Isle of Voices.

Publisher: Macmillan Publishers (MPS)
Published: 11/18/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847495204

About the Author
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.