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This new edition brings a fresh perspective on Stevenson’s dark, celebrated evocation of duality: polite society undermined by the weakness deep within itself.Three of Stevensons other dark tales reveal him to be a shrewd and skillful storyteller ‘The Body Snatcher’, ‘The Pavilion on the Links’, ‘The Story of a Lie’.Flame Tree Collector’s Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors without whom the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best and most influential writers into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction, a short biography and a glossary of Gothic, Victorian and Literary terms.