<div>The most infamous of horror stories&mdash;a disturbing examination of man&rsquo;s capacity for evil One pitch-black London morning, a ghoulish little man tramples a young girl and continues heedlessly on his way. Caught by a passerby and returned to the scene of the crime, the man is forced to pay &pound;100 in restitution. He produces ten pounds in gold and a check for the remainder. Curiously, the check bears the signature of the well-regarded Dr. Henry Jekyll. Even stranger, Dr. Jekyll&rsquo;s will names this same awful and mysterious little man, Mr. Hyde, as the sole beneficiary. Troubled by the coincidence, Dr. Jekyll&rsquo;s attorney visits his client. What he uncovers is a tale so strange and terrifying it has seeped into the very fabric of our consciousness. An immediate success upon its publication in 1886 and a cultural touchstone to this day, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most disturbing stories ever told. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

<div>Robert Louis Stevenson&rsquo;s classic tale of pirates, treasure, and daring deeds on the high seas Jim Hawkins, son of an English innkeeper, finds a map promising buried treasure and feels the call of adventure. Enticed by the promise of untold wealth, Jim goes to sea as a cabin boy. The Hispaniola and its crew, under the leadership of Long John Silver, sail the Spanish Main seeking hidden riches. But the voyage is far from tranquil, and before the ship drops anchor, a mutiny plot is discovered. Robert Louis Stevenson&rsquo;s timeless yarn takes readers on a perilous journey to an island far from home. This world, populated by peg-legged pirates, swashbuckling sailors, and pet parrots is as thrilling now as it was over a century ago. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Treasure Island

<div>Two brothers will do whatever it takes to hide a body and inherit a fortune in this laugh-out-loud crime caper Elderly Joseph and Masterman Finsbury are the last survivors of a tontine established in their youth. Their nephews, Morris and John, have one simple goal: Keep Uncle Joseph alive longer than Uncle Masterman. If they succeed, the brothers will be set for life. If they fail, the fortune goes to cousin Michael&mdash;and poverty will be their fate. When the siblings regain consciousness after a train wreck, they discover that Joseph&mdash;or a man dressed exactly like him&mdash;died in the crash. Not to worry; Morris has a plan. Instead of burying the body where anyone might dig it up, they&rsquo;ll ship it around the world until Uncle Masterman dies. It seems foolproof, until the incorrect package arrives at the first destination and Morris and John have to find poor, dead Uncle Joseph before somebody opens the wrong box. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Wrong Box

<div>An uncanny thriller from the acclaimed author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Medical school students Fettes and Macfarlane are charged with the unenviable task of receiving and paying for the institution&rsquo;s research cadavers. When Fettes recognizes the dead body of a woman he saw alive and well just the day before, he suspects murder. Macfarlane, however, insists that the authorities would never believe they had nothing to do with her death. Reluctantly, Fettes agrees to keep quiet, but soon regrets his decision when another familiar corpse turns up&mdash;and takes on a life of its own. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Body Snatcher

<div>Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark&mdash;by authors from H. G. Wells to Willa Cather. Before movies, television, and teams of high-tech &ldquo;ghost hunters&rdquo; running around darkened houses, there was only one sure-fire way to scare people: ghost stories. Some of the greatest names in literature have expertly crafted haunting tales that put the reader in a whole other world in which every shadow holds a new fear&mdash;where the lines between the living and the dead are erased and the spirits are always willing. In this collection of over forty ghastly ghost stories are works from celebrated names including Edgar Allan Poe, Saki (H. H. Munro), Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Washington Irving, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, and many more. As frightening and unforgettable as they are fun, The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told are sure to keep you up night after night after dark and stormy night.</div>

The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told

<div>A timeless anthology of chilling tales known to torment the mind and stir up nightmarish visions that can never be unseen. Ghosts, murder, demonic possession, and psychological terror: these are just some of the subjects explored by the unparalleled writers in this superb collection. Lovers of the supernatural will discover the true masters of the genre, and readers of classic literature will see another side of their favorite Victorian, French, and American authors. In &ldquo;La Grande Bret&ecirc;che&rdquo; by nineteenth-century French writer Honor&eacute; de Balzac, a doctor discovers an abandoned manor with a disturbing history. Victorian master Thomas Hardy&rsquo;s &ldquo;Three Strangers&rdquo; proves just how hard it is to judge a man&rsquo;s character, even when a life is at stake. In Robert Louis Stevenson&rsquo;s suspenseful trilogy &ldquo;The Suicide Club,&rdquo; a detective delves into a dark association whose members are intent on losing their lives. And in &ldquo;Green Tea,&rdquo; by the incomparable ghost-story writer Sheridan Le Fanu, a detective of the occult investigates the case of a clergyman haunted by a demon in the form of an ethereal monkey. This anthology includes twenty-two stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Willa Cather, Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Bront&euml;, and many other masters of mayhem and darkness.</div>

Stories of Terror and the Supernatural

<div>The author of Treasure Island delivers a &ldquo;colorful plot and tense family drama . . . You couldn&rsquo;t ask for more fun in a novel&mdash;it even has pirates&rdquo; (The Guardian). During the Jacobite Risings of 1745, two Scottish brothers battle for the family inheritance in what &ldquo;is commonly regarded as [Robert Louis Stevenson&rsquo;s] greatest full-length work&rdquo; (The Atlantic). &ldquo;[The Master of Ballantrae] has the adventurous spirit of Treasure Island, the romantic 18th-century Scottish setting of Kidnapped, the obsession with doubles and divided selves that makes Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde such a resonant parable, and a climactic image as horrific as that in The Body Snatcher. Its blend of historical romance, travel fantasy and gothic nightmare makes it deeply pleasurable.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;If a strong story, strongly told, full of human interest, and absolutely original in its situations, makes a masterpiece, then this may lay claim to the title.&rdquo; &mdash;Arthur Conan Doyle</div>

The Master of Ballantrae

<div>&ldquo;A story of love and adventure set in the Wars of the Roses&rdquo; from the nineteenth-century Scottish author of Treasure Island(Adirondack Daily Enterprise). A spirited historical adventure set during the British Middle Ages, The Black Arrow was originally serialized in 1883. As England is torn apart by civil wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, Richard &ldquo;Dick&rdquo; Shelton seeks justice for the murder of his father. Believing that the Black Arrow outlaws are responsible for his death, Dick embarks on a journey through Tunstall Forest, where a fugitive heiress will help him uncover a shocking betrayal, discover just where his loyalties lie, and steal his heart . . . &ldquo;The plot moves at a snappy pace&mdash;there are outlaws, secret passages, battles, hairs-breadth escapes, storms at sea, and more as Richard battles to regain his rightful inheritance&mdash;to say nothing of the girl he loves.&rdquo; &mdash;Vintage Novels</div>

The Black Arrow

<div>&ldquo;A thrilling adventure story, gripping history, and fascinating study of the Scottish character&rdquo; from the author of Treasure Island (The Guardian, &ldquo;The 100 Best Novels&rdquo;). Just as newly orphaned David Balfour discovers his scheming uncle is trying to steal his inheritance, he&rsquo;s kidnapped by a sea captain with plans to sell him into slavery in the Carolinas. Before long, the ship is hampered by strong winds and rough seas, throwing David together with Alan Breck Stewart, a roguish Jacobite with a score to settle. Surviving shipwreck, assassins, and subterfuge forges their friendship, uniting the two young men on a rip-roaring journey that will take them across the Scottish highlands. &ldquo;Kidnapped is [Robert Louis Stevenson&rsquo;s] masterpiece, an unforgettable novel of action that would inspire writers as varied as Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, Graham Greene and Muriel Spark. . . . An astounding action adventure in which Stevenson&rsquo;s command of narrative, prose that&rsquo;s pared to the bone, is never less than enthralling.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian, &ldquo;The 100 Best Novels&rdquo; &ldquo;One of the great pleasures of reconsidering Stevenson was rereading Kidnapped. I came back to it hesitantly, nervously, expecting to take my seven-year-old self to task, and found from the beautiful, stately opening pages, wherein David Balfour leaves his home for the last time, that I was captivated. Alan Breck remains a wonderfully jaunty character, and I was struck afresh by Stevenson&rsquo;s gift for describing landscapes that both shape and reveal the actions of the characters.&rdquo; &mdash;The Atlantic</div>

Kidnapped

<div>The author famed for Treasure Island and other novels shares his own real-life adventures.Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson is best known for his popular adventure classics and suspenseful tales, such as Treasure Island and TheStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But in his day he was also famed for his own globetrotting life as he traveled far and wide, in spite of health problems&mdash;and for his many essays. This volume collects his writings on a wide variety of subjects, from &ldquo;Books Which Have Influenced Me&rdquo; to &ldquo;On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places,&rdquo; and offers an entertaining and enlightening look at one of the nineteenth century&rsquo;s most intriguing literary figures.</div>

Essays

<div>The author of Treasure Island shares true stories of his travels in the Pacific in these portraits of nineteenth-century Tahiti, New Zealand, and beyond.Setting sail from San Francisco in June 1888, the author of Kidnapped and other classic adventure fiction embarked on a journey of his own. Having endured periods of illness and isolation in his earlier years, Robert Louis Stevenson was determined to see the far corners of the world. His extensive travels took him to the Hawaiian Islands, the Gilbert Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Samoa, where he would eventually settle. This collection of Stevenson&rsquo;s writings recounts these wondrous years of nineteenth-century South Seas exploration.</div>

In the South Seas

<div>A short thriller and a comic crime novel by the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explore murderous greed in nineteenth-century Scotland.The Wrong Box: Two elderly brothers, Joseph and Masterman, are the last surviving members of an investment agreement known as a tontine. All their two nephews have to do to inherit everything is make sure Joseph outlives Masterman. But that&rsquo;s easier said than done. Robert Louis Stevenson cowrote this comic crime novel with his stepson Lloyd Osbourn.The Body Snatcher: Inspired by the notorious Burke and Hare murders, this chilling short story tells the tale of two medical students in charge of receiving human cadavers for dissection in their anatomy class. When one of them begins to suspect murder is afoot, the other starts acting increasingly suspicious&mdash;until both find themselves in a terrifying predicament.</div>

The Mysteries of Robert Louis Stevenson

<div>Two historical adventure novels from the author of Treasure Island, as well as a rare travel memoir of his experiences in the Pacific Islands.The Master of Ballantrae: In this tragic tale of a family divided by the eighteenth-century Jacobite rising, two brothers join opposing sides of the conflict. The story follows their epic rivalry from Scotland to the high seas and the American wilderness.Kidnapped: This adventure novel, inspired by true events in eighteenth-century Scotland, tells the tale of young David Balfour&mdash;who is betrayed by his uncle and kidnapped onto a ship, and survives shipwreck with his friend, the famous Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart.In the South Seas: In the 1890s, Robert Louis Stevenson chartered a ship to the Pacific Islands and recorded his experiences and observations. This autobiography of his journey offers a rare window into the author&rsquo;s real, adventurous life.</div>

The Essential Robert Louis Stevenson Volume Two

<div>Three beloved nineteenth-century classics featuring pirate adventures, sparring knights, and gothic chills.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: In this timeless gothic horror novella, the upstanding Dr. Jekyll is plagued by his association with the mysterious and murderous brute Mr. Hyde&mdash;until the shocking truth of the doctor&rsquo;s dual nature is revealed.Treasure Island: This classic adventure novel tells the story of young Jim Hawkins, who finds a treasure map and gets wrapped up in the devious plots of the notorious pirate Long John Silver.The Black Arrow: This romantic adventure novel, set in fifteenth-century England, follows the chivalrous Dick Shelton as he avenges his father&rsquo;s murder and saves his love, Joanna, with the help of a band of outlaws known as the Black Arrow.</div>

The Essential Robert Louis Stevenson Volume One

<div>A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it screams . . . This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind—or by a passing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre, each is illustrated with exquisitely eerie artwork.</div>

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