Robert Louis Stevenson island fiction and non-fiction is among the most valuable and collected of the 19th century body of work that addresses the Pacific area. Literary works Musical works About Websites Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", and "A Child's Garden of Verses". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by
Horror film Hand", "The Black Cat" (based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story), "The Suicide Club" (based on the Robert Louis Stevenson short story collection) and "Der Spuk" (which translates to "The Spectre" in English). The film is described as the "critical link between the more conventional German mystery and detective films of the mid 1910s and the groundbreaking fantastic cinema of the early 1920s." Robert Wiene's "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" ("The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari") (1920) became a worldwide success and had a lasting impact on the film world, particularly for horror. It was not so much the story