Merry Men

A story which shows Stevenson''s powder of vividly descriptive writing at perhaps its highest level, but one which, as a story, has been variously criticized. It was written in the Highlands in 1881, the year after his marriage, as one of a series of tales of horror ('' crawlers,'' as he called them), planned in collaboration with his wife. Aros of the story is the tidal islet of Earraid, famous u...