![]() Stevenson woke up from the dream with two or three scenes already sketched out, including the first transformation scene, which is where he was in the story when Fanny woke him up. ![]() In a desperate situation physically and fiscally (the Stevenson’s were deeply in debt), and prescribed cocaine to manage his bleeding lungs, between the fever, the pain, his creditors and the drugs, Stevenson himself was likely not in the best mental state when he had the now-famous nightmare. Rather than being grateful, however, Stevenson chastised his bride, barking: “Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.”Ī longtime sufferer of consumption (see: Why Tuberculosis was Called “Consumption”), Stevenson was convalescing from a bout in Bournemouth, England with wife, Fanny, when he had the fever dream. ![]() In the fall of 1885, poet, essayist, travel writer and novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson, had a nightmare so terrifying that his tossing about impelled his wife to wake him up. ![]()
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