Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher

“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings,” wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in his Child’s Garden of Verses. Stevenson’s versatility and range of imagination can be imagined when we consider the distance between that gentle and ever-charming volume and the thrilling, sometimes macabre stories he wrote for an older audience. Like tonight’s “The Body Snatcher.”