Synopsis
Mr. Soulis, the young new minister of Balweary, doesn't believe in superstition and insists on sheltering Janet M'Clour who is thought a witch by the townspeople, especially after she has been struck by a twisting that makes her seem a walking corpse.
Notes
First published in Cornhill Magazine, October 1881.
Publications (95)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1887 |
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The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables | Chatto & Windus | Collection | |
| 1895 | The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables / Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Charles Scribner's Sons | Omnibus | 127 | |
| 1903 |
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Thrawn Janet; Markheim: Two Tales | Thomas Bird Mosher | Collection | |
| 1906 | Thrawn Janet; Markheim: Two Tales | Thomas Bird Mosher | Collection | ||
| 1906 |
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Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the Literatures of France, England and America | P. F. Collier & Son | Anthology | 245|2245 |
| 1909 | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables | Current Literature Pub. Co | Omnibus | ||
| 1911 |
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The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables / Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Charles Scribner's Sons | Omnibus | |5 |
| 1920 | Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories | Doubleday, Page & Company | Anthology | 191 | |
| 1923 | The Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Scribner's Sons | Collection | |6 | |
| 1925 |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Merry Men and Other Tales | J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton | Omnibus | |
| 1927 | The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables / Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Charles Scribner's Sons | Omnibus | ||
| 1928 | The Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson | Gollancz | Collection | 843 | |
| September 1928 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | 863 | |
| 1929 |
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The Omnibus of Crime | Harcourt, Brace & Company | Anthology | 816 |
| April 1929 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | 863 | |
| August 1929 |
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The Omnibus of Crime | Payson & Clarke | Anthology | 816 |
| May 1930 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | 863 | |
| September 1930 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | 863 | |
| October 1930 |
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Great Ghost Stories | Herbert Jenkins | Anthology | 214 |
| January 1931 | Great Ghost Stories | Herbert Jenkins | Anthology | 214 | |
| August 1931 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | 863 | |
| 1932 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Merry Men & Other Tales | E. P. Dutton | Omnibus | |6 | |
| 1932 | Thirteen Ghostly Yarns | Roland Swain | Anthology | 163 | |
| June 1932 | The Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson | Gollancz | Collection | 843 | |
| June 1932 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | 863 | |
| January 1933 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | 863 | |
| December 1933 | Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | 863 | |
| 1934 | The Devil in Scotland | A. MacLehose | Anthology | 77 | |
| 1934 | The Devil in Scotland | The Macmillan Company | Anthology | ||
| 1937 | The Omnibus of Crime | Garden City Publishing Co. | Anthology | 816 | |
| July 1939 | Great Short Stories of Detection: Part II, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | ||
| July 1945 |
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"Come Not, Lucifer!" | John Westhouse | Anthology | 231 |
| October 1945 |
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Novels and Stories | Pilot Press | Omnibus | 527 |
| 1946 |
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Strange and Fantastic Stories: Fifty Tales of Terror, Horror and Fantasy | Whittlesey House | Anthology | 684 |
| 1947 | Selected Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson | Random House | Omnibus | |12 | |
| January 1947 | Great Short Stories of Detection: Part II, Mystery and Horror | Gollancz | Anthology | ||
| August 1950 | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories | Coward-McCann | Collection | |10 | |
| August 1952 | 50 Great Short Stories | Bantam Books | Anthology | |19 | |
| 1957 |
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Best Horror Stories | Faber and Faber | Anthology | 231 |
| 1962 |
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Best Horror Stories | Faber and Faber | Anthology | 231 |
| 1963 | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Collection | ||
| March 1966 |
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Where Nightmares Are | Mayflower-Dell | Anthology | 138 |
| October 1966 |
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The Premature Burial and Other Tales of Horror | Corgi Books | Anthology | 27 |
| 1968 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Merry Men and Other Tales | J. M. Dent | Omnibus | ||
| 1968 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Island Night's Entertainments / The Merry Men and Other Stories | Heron Books | Omnibus | ||
| June 1969 | The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels | Doubleday | Omnibus | 349 | |
| October 1969 |
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Where Nightmares Are | Mayflower | Anthology | 138 |
| May 1972 |
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The Devil's Coven: Classic Stories of Scottish Witchcraft | New English Library | Anthology | 116 |
| 1973 |
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Where Nightmares Are | David Bruce & Watson | Anthology | 138 |
| 1976 |
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The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson | John Calder | Collection | 32 |
| November 1977 |
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The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson | Riverrun Press | Collection | |3 |
| February 1978 |
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The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson | Dell Laurel-Leaf | Collection | 35 |
| August 1978 |
|
50 Great Short Stories | Bantam Books | Anthology | 452 |
| September 1980 | Selected Short Stories of R.L. Stevenson | The Ramsay Head Press | Collection | 40 | |
| 1981 | The Oxford Book of Short Stories | Book Club Associates | Anthology | 99 | |
| 1981 | The Oxford Book of Short Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 99 | |
| March 1983 |
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Where Nightmares Are | Severn House | Anthology | 138 |
| December 1985 |
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Dark Banquet: A Feast of Twelve Great Ghost Stories | St. Martin's Press | Anthology | 15 |
| August 1991 | The Collected Shorter Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson | Robinson | Collection | 315 | |
| September 1991 |
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The Complete Shorter Fiction | Carroll & Graf | Collection | 315 |
| 1992 |
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories | Everyman's Library (UK) | Collection | |5 |
| 1992 | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 153 | |
| October 1992 |
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories | J. M. Dent | Collection | 223 |
| December 1993 |
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The Complete Shorter Fiction | Carroll & Graf | Collection | 315 |
| December 1993 | Tales from the Prince of Storytellers | Northwestern University Press | Collection | 317 | |
| December 1993 | Tales from the Prince of Storytellers | Northwestern University Press | Collection | 317 | |
| March 1994 | The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition | Henry Holt | Collection | 1:409|409 | |
| March 1994 | The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition | Henry Holt | Collection | 1:409|409 | |
| October 1995 | The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables | Project Gutenberg | Collection | ||
| July 1996 |
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories | J. M. Dent | Collection | 223 |
| 1997 |
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Ghost Stories and Other Horrid Tales | The Folio Society | Anthology | |
| 1998 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels | Da Capo Press | Omnibus | 349 |
| August 2003 |
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Great Ghost Stories | Fredonia Books | Anthology | |
| October 2003 |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories | Barnes & Noble Books | Collection | 201 |
| 2004 |
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The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 1079 |
| December 2004 |
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The Suicide Club & Other Dark Adventures | Tartarus Press | Collection | 203 |
| January 2005 |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories | Barnes & Noble Books | Collection | |3 |
| April 2005 |
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The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Kessinger | Omnibus | 144 |
| January 2009 | Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories | Project Gutenberg | Anthology | ||
| February 2009 |
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Scottish Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 526 |
| January 2010 |
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Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories | Dodo Press | Anthology | |
| February 2010 |
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The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce | Penguin Books | Anthology | 151 |
| April 2010 | The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson | Calder Publications Ltd | Collection | 32 | |
| November 2011 |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Terrifying Tales | Fall River Press | Collection | 134 |
| December 2012 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson Including Two Novellas 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde' and 'The Beach of Falesa', One Novelette 'Olalla' and Ten Short Stories of the Macabre and Unusual | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2012 |
|
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson Including Two Novellas 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde' and 'The Beach of Falesa', One Novelette 'Olalla' and Ten Short Stories of the Macabre and Unusual | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| September 2016 |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories | Sterling Publishing | Collection | 86 |
| September 2016 |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories | Alma Classics | Collection | 86 |
| July 2017 |
|
Great Supernatural Stories: 101 Horrifying Tales | Fall River Press | Anthology | 650 |
| September 2021 |
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Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology | Unbound | Anthology | |3 |
| September 2021 |
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Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology | Unbound | Anthology | |3 |
| March 2022 |
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Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology | Unbound | Anthology | |3 |
| August 2023 |
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Robert Louis Stevenson Collection | Flame Tree Press | Omnibus | 11 |
| October 2024 | Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the Literatures of France, England and America: Volume II: Ghost Stories | Project Gutenberg | Anthology | |2245 | |
| December 2025 |
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Supernatural Tales | Alma Books | Omnibus | |3 |