The Body Snatcher and Other Stories
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by Roy McMillan
4/5
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About this audiobook
A dark night, a graveyard and the suspicion of murder... 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’s trademark of carefully chosen music.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and travel writer. Born the son of a lighthouse engineer, Stevenson suffered from a lifelong lung ailment that forced him to travel constantly in search of warmer climates. Rather than follow his father’s footsteps, Stevenson pursued a love of literature and adventure that would inspire such works as Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent collection of stories, most of which have you sitting on the edge of your seat wondering what the next twist will be. A couple of the longer stories are a little slower to start, but the author more than makes up for this by the conclusion.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Robert Louis Stevenson was a master storyteller. This fabled collection of stories ranges from the macabre to an innocent tale of unexpected consequences.A Lodging for the NightThis is a story of contrasts with a little historical context sprinkled in. Contrast in the lives of two individuals. One is a thief who is party to a crime. The other is a respectable citizen of society. Rich and poor, exposed and protected. Master Francis Villon was an actual French poet / thief that lived in Paris from roughly 1431- c1463. His famous line from one of his poems was “Where are the snows of yesteryear?” It is snowing on a dark night and no one is on the streets except for a patrol company. The scene is set in a small house at the back of St. John’s cemetery. A man is murdered and robbed of his money. Francis Villon flees the scene. He eventually ends up at a nobleman’s house who takes him in and feeds him. A discussion ensues and the difference between the two becomes agonizingly apparent and Francis is eventually escorted out of the house.“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.” Francis is portrayed as the starving artist. Stevenson seems sympathetic to the plight of this artist.The Sire De Maletroit’s Door “When things fall out opportunely for the person concerned, he is not apt to be critical as to how or why, his own immediate personal convenience seeming a sufficient reason for the strangest, oddities and revolutions in our sublunary things.”A young cavalier goes out one night to visit a friend. Upon his return he stumbles into an unexpected arrangement of strangeness turned love.The Suicide Club
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/52.5 - 3 stars
These stories weren't bad but weren't anything special really either. I liked the Bottle Imp the most. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I whipped through this, as it is only 19 pages long. It’s Robert Louis Stevenson, so of course it’s well written. The evil done in The Body Snatcher is threefold: murder, desecrating graves in order to steal bodies, and corrupting the morals of others. It’s more a commentary on the lows people will stoop to in order to advance their own ambitions than a horror story, although Stevenson does try to swing it towards the supernatural with his twist at the end. One man’s hardness and self interest infects another more principled man into accepting the immoral actions they undertake. MacFarlane in this short story equates the ability to silence moral qualms in order to get ahead to acting like a lion rather than a lamb. Perhaps at the time it was written, not long after Burke and Hare were in the news, it was shocking, but I found it a little tame.