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"The Body Snatcher, The Suicide Club, and Other Tales" is a thrilling collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's lesser known novellas and short stories. In this volume you will find the following captivating tales: The Suicide Club, The Rajah's Diamond, The Pavilion On The Links, A Lodging For The Night, The Sire De Maletroit's Door, Providence And The Guitar, The Merry Men, Will O' The Mill, Markheim, Thrawn Janet, Olalla, The Treasure Of Franchard, The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices, The Misadventures Of John Nicholson, The Body-Snatcher, and The Story Of A Lie.

"The Body Snatcher and Other Tales" is a collection of three ghoulish tales by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the first story, «The Body Snatcher», we find Fettes and Wolfe Macfarlane engaged in the dubious business of stealing corpses for a famous unnamed professor of anatomy. In the second story, «The Bottle Imp», we learn of a magic bottle that contains a wish-granting imp. The only catch is that the bottle must be sold at a loss or its owner's soul will burn for eternity in Hell. In the third and final story, «The Merry Men», we have the tale of Charles Darnaway who is in search of the sunken treasure of a Spanish Armada ship that he believes crashed long ago against the «Merry Men», a series of breakers that roar a hundred feet high off the coast where his Uncle Gordon lives. Fans of the macabre will be delighted by this collection of Stevenson's more frightening tales.

Sophie Seacove is a storyteller. She tells stories of what the world would be like if madness hadn't taken over. If her parents hadn't sold her off as a servant to pay for their stupid vacation. If she wasn't now trapped in a decaying mansion filled with creepy people and surrounded by ravenous sea monsters. The mansion has plenty of stories, too: About fantastical machines, and the tragic inventor who created them. About his highly suspicious death. And about the Monster Box, a mysterious object hidden in the house that just might hold the key to escaping this horrible place-and to reuniting Sophie with her family. But not everyone wants Sophie to have the Monster Box. Sophie needs to use her brains, her brawn, and her unbreakable nature if she wants to make it off this wretched island…and live to tell this story.