The Story of a Recluse

The Story of a Recluse is an unfinished work by Robert Louis Stevenson, probably written in the mid 1880s.

It tells the story of Jamie Kirkwood, an Edinburgh minister's son who finds himself waking up in a room identical to his own in the house of a mysterious man called Manton Jamieson.

[5] However according to Gray's biographer, Rodge Glass, the writer was unhappy with the final product.

[4] Gray, in turn, adapted his screenplay into a short story in the anthology Lean Tales.

It involved some alterations to the television play's plot, concentrating for the most part on a metafictional discussion of the reasoning by which Gray deduces how Stevenson's story should end.