''Tales and Fantasies'' is a short story collection by

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...

. The book was published posthumously in 1905. It contains three stories, which were not published as a part of a collection during Stevenson′s lifetime: * "The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story" (1885–87). First published in '' Yule Tide'', 1887, later in the ''Edinburgh Edition'', 1897. * "

The Body Snatcher "The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). First published in ''The Pall Mall Gazette'' in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of real-life surgeon Robert K ...

" (1881). First published in the Christmas 1884 edition of the ''

Pall Mall Gazette ''The Pall Mall Gazette'' was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921, '' The Globe'' merged into ''The Pall Mall Gazette'', which itself was absorbed in ...

'', later in the ''Edinburgh Edition'', 1895. * "The Story of a Lie" (1879). First published in '' New Quarterly Magazine'' in 1879; later in ''The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson'', vol 3, 1895.

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