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===Short stories=== List of short stories sorted chronologically.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://robert-louis-stevenson.org/|title=Robert Louis Stevenson|website=robert-louis-stevenson.org|accessdate=8 December 2022|archive-date=8 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208073658/https://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> Note: does not include collaborations with Fanny found in ''More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter''. {| class="wikitable sortable" class="wikitable sortable" |- !Title !Date !Collection !Notes |- |"An Old Song" |1875 |Uncollected |Stevenson's first published fiction, in ''London'', 1877. Anonymous. Republished in 1982 by R. Swearingen. |- |"When the Devil Was Well" |1875 |Uncollected |First published in 1921, by the Boston Bibliophile Society. |- |"Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family" |1877 |Uncollected |Unfinished. Not truly a short-story. First published in 1982 by R. Swearingen. |- |"Will o' the Mill" |1877 |''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887 ||First published in ''[[The Cornhill Magazine]]'', 1878 |- |"A Lodging for the Night" |1877 |''New Arabian Nights'', 1882 |First published in ''[[Temple Bar (magazine)|Temple Bar]]'' in 1877 |- |"The Sire De Malétroit's Door" |1877 |''New Arabian Nights'', 1882 |First published in ''Temple Bar'' in 1878 |- |"[[The Suicide Club (short story collection)|The Suicide Club]]" |1878 |''New Arabian Nights'', 1882 |First published in ''London'' in 1878. Three interconnected stories: "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts", "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk" and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab". Part of the ''[[Later-day Arabian Nights]]''. |- |"[[The Rajah's Diamond]]" |1878 |''New Arabian Nights'', 1882 |First published in ''London'' in 1878. Four interconnected stories: "Story of the Bandbox", "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders", "Story of the House with the Green Blinds" and "The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective". Part of the ''Later-day Arabian Nights''. |- |"Providence and the Guitar" |1878 |''New Arabian Nights'', 1882 |First published in ''London'' in 1878 |- |"The Story of a Lie" |1879 |''Tales and Fantasies'', 1905 |First published in ''New Quarterly Magazine'' in 1879. |- |"[[The Pavilion on the Links]]" |1880 |''New Arabian Nights'', 1882 |First Published in ''The Cornhill Magazine'' in 1880. Told in 9 mini-chapters. Later included with a few suppressions in ''New Arabian Nights''. [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]] in 1890 called it the first English short story. |- |"[[Thrawn Janet]]" |1881 |''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887 |First published in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', 1881 |- |"[[The Body Snatcher]]" |1881 |''Tales and Fantasies'', 1905 |First published in the Christmas 1884 edition of ''[[The Pall Mall Gazette]]''. |- |"[[The Merry Men (short story)|The Merry Men]]" |1882 |''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887 |First published in ''The Cornhill Magazine'' in 1882. Later included with changes in ''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables''. |- |"Diogenes" |1882 |Uncollected |Two sketches: "Diogenes in London" and "Diogenes at the Savile Club". |- |"The Treasure of Franchard" |1883 |''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887 |First published in ''[[Longman's Magazine]]'', 1883 |- |"[[Markheim]]" |1884 |''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887 |First published in the ''Broken Shaft. Unwin's Annual.'', 1885 |- |"[[Olalla (short story)|Olalla]]" |1885 |''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887 |First published in ''[[The Court and Society Review]]'', 1885 |- |"The Great North Road" |1885 |Uncollected |Unfinished. First published in ''Illustrated London News''/''The Cosmopolitan'', 1895 |- |"[[The Story of a Recluse]]" |1885 |Uncollected |Unfinished. First published by the Boston Bibliophile Society, 1921. Later completed by [[Alasdair Gray]]. |- |"[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]" |1886 |Standalone, 1886 |Novella. Also referred to, more rarely, as a short novel.<ref>''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales'', Robert Louis Stevenson. Oxford World's Classics.</ref> |- |"The Misadventures of John Nicholson" |1887 |''Tales and Fantasies'', 1905 |Novella. With the subtitle: "A Christmas Story". First published in ''Yule Tide'', 1887 |- |"The Clockmaker" |1880s |Uncollected |One of two fables not included in the 1896 collection.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Parfect |first=Ralph |date=2005 |title=Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Clockmaker" and "The Scientific Ape": Two Unpublished Fables |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/366388 |journal=English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 |language=en |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=387–400 |doi=10.2487/Y008-J320-0428-0742 |issn=1559-2715}}</ref> |- |"The Scientific Ape" |1880s |Uncollected |One of two fables not included in the 1896 collection. |- |"The Enchantress" |1889 |Uncollected |First published in the Fall 1989 issue of ''The Georgia Review''. |- |"Adventures of Henry Shovel" |1891 |Uncollected |Unfinished. First published in the ''Vailima Edition'', Vol. 25. Published alongside three other short fragments: "The Owl", "Cannonmills" and "Mr Baskerville and His Ward". |- |"[[The Bottle Imp]]" |1891 |''[[Island Nights' Entertainments]]'', 1893 |First published in ''[[Black and White (magazine)|Black and White]]'', 1891 |- |"[[The Beach of Falesá]]" |1892 |''Island Nights' Entertainments'', 1893 |Novella. First published in ''[[The Illustrated London News]]'' in 1892 |- |"[[The Isle of Voices]]" |1892 |''Island Nights' Entertainments'', 1893 |First published in ''[[National Observer (UK)|National Observer]]'', 1883 |- |"The Waif Woman" |1892 |Uncollected |Unfinished. First published in the ''[[Scribner's Magazine]]'', 1914 |- |"The Young Chevalier" |1893 |Uncollected |Unfinished. First published in the ''Edinburgh Edition'', Vol. 26, 1897 |- |"Heathercat" |1894 |Uncollected |Unfinished. First published in the ''Edinburgh Edition'', Vol. 20, 1897 |}
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