Body-snatcher: No. 1 (Travelman Suspense S.) - Tapa blanda

This gruesome story was first published in the Christmas issue of the Pall Mall magazine for 1884 and, although it had been written some time earlier, Stevenson initially laid it aside 'in justifiable disgust, the tale being horrid'. One night Fettes, an old Scotsman at the George Inn, is shocked out of his drunken stupor by the sudden appearance of a shady figure from his past, Dr Wolfe Macfarlane. The sights of Macfarlane brings back terrible memories for Fettes, in particular the nightmarish events of a stormy night in the rustic graveyard at Glencorse.

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1984