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The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Lewis Stevenson Author:Michael Hayes Choosing settings as far away as the Scottish Balweary and Samoa and yet as near as the dreamed landscape of the wakeful, self-deluding mind, Robert Louis Stevenson sets in motions elements that combine to make seven of the finest examples of the supernatural genre. Whether writing of the lush horror and cannibalism of the mysterious Isle ... more »of Voices, of the supreme and deadly greed of an Icelandic wife in The Waif Woman, of the dangerously risky pact with the powers of hell in The Bottle Imp, the avenging ghost of The Body Snatchers, the family curse of Olalla, the satanic possession of Thrawn Janet, or Markheim's famous battle of conscience between the forces of evil and good, Stevenson roams the strange, improbable terrain of inner terror, suspense, romance, and adventure with the language, insight and intensity that established him as one of the finest writers in English. « less