Tales and Fantasies is a short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. The book was published posthumously in 1905. It contains three stories, which were not published as a part of a collection during Stevenson′s lifetime: 'The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story' (1885-87), 'The Body Snatcher' (1881) and 'The Story of a Lie' (1879).