A Hebridean uncle who has gone strange watching the breakers he calls the Merry Men take ships; Markheim, a murderer met by something in an empty shop; Olalla; Will o' the Mill; the Sire de Maletroit's door. Stevenson gave up engineering and the law, spent his life outrunning tuberculosis, and drew the map of Treasure Island for his stepson before writing a word. This 1887 collection holds his darkest short work.