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These were gateway drugs into my reading addiction lol. I would read these, then head to the library to read the real version. Verne, RLStevenson, Dumas, and especially Melville were all introduced to me in this manner.
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Like A Troll On A Computer Screen - Week of 10/1/25
In which the geeks transform.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941) kicks off Horror Month!
#AllTheHorror #Horror25 #RLStevenson #podcast #podernfamily podcast.thefellowshipofthegeeks.net/2025/09/like...
Like A Troll On A Computer Screen - Week of 10/1/25
The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the 1941 film Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, kicking off Horror Month ‘25. Spencer Tracy, Lan...
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September 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Lloyd Osbourne printed several chapbooks on a toy printing press & hawked them around the sanatorium at Davos (& paid Stevenson royalties). You can find scans of the originals on the @natlibscot.bsky.social website
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Title page of MORAL EMBLEMS, by Robert Louis Stevenson, printed in a variety of serif and sans-serif fonts. Some letters are slightly under- or over-inked: MORAL EMBLEMS A Collection of Cuts and Verses by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Author of The Blue Scalper, Travels with a Donkey, Treasure Island, Not I etc. Printers: S. L. OSBOURNE & COMPANY. Davos-Platz
September 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
mjjaxn.bsky.social
Now I have done with it, down let it go!
All in a moment the town is laid low.
Block upon block lying scattered and free,
What is there left of my town by the sea?
-RLStevenson (and the cat)
September 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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“The necessity for marked characteristics in coast illumination increases with the number of lights…”

—One of Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser-known works, read before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on 27 March 1871, & awarded the Society’s Silver Medal
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The first page of a paper by Robert Louis Stevenson, entitled ON A NEW FORM OF INTERMITTENT LIGHT FOR LIGHTHOUSES (Read before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on 27th March 1871, and awarded the Society's Silver Medal.) The necessity for marked characteristics in coast illumination increases with the number of lights. The late Mr. Robert Stevenson, my grandfather, contributed two distinctions, which he called respectively the intermittent and the flashing light. It is only to the former of these that I have to refer in the present paper. The intermittent light was first introduced at Tarbetness in 1830, and is already in use at eight stations on the coasts of the United Kingdom. As constructed originally, it was an arrangement by which a fixed light was alternately eclipsed and revealed. These recurrent occultations and revelations produce an effect totally different from that of the revolving light, which comes gradually into its full strength, and as gradually fades away. The changes in the intermittent, on the other hand, are immediate; a certain duration of darkness is followed at once and without the least gradation by a certain period of light. The arrangement employed by my grandfather to effect this object consisted of two opaque cylindric shades or extinguishers, one of which descended from the roof, while the other ascended from below to meet it, at a fixed interval. The light was thus entirely intercepted. At a later period, at the harbour light of Troon, Mr. Wilson, C.E., produced an intermittent light by the use of gas, which leaves little to be desired, and which is still in use […]
August 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
phantastiknews.bsky.social
#Hörspiel am #Sonntagmorgen 🗣️
#HolyHorror - #DrJekyllundMrHyde
#komplettesHörspiel #RLStevenson
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Holy Horror - 3 - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
YouTube video by David Holy
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August 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Lloyd Osbourne’s “Davos Press” enjoyed success sufficient to pay Stevenson (very small) royalties. You can find scans of the originals on the @natlibscot.bsky.social website
#BookHistory
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An advert, printed on a toy printing press in a variety of serif and sans-serif fonts. The words NOTICE and ILLUSTRATED are in a bold display font. Some letters are slightly under- or over-inked. The text reads: NOTICE Today is published by S. L. Osbourne & Co. Ilustrated BLACK CANYON, or Wild Adventures in the FAR WEST. AN Instructive and amusing TALE written by SAMUEL LLOYD OSBOURNE PRICE 6D. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Although Black Canyon is rather shorter than ordinary for that kind of story, it is an excellent work. We cordially recommend it to our readers. Weekly Messenger S. L. Osbourne's new work (Black Canyon) is splendidly illustrated. In the story, the characters are hold and striking. It reflects the highest honor on its writer. Morning Call. A very remarkable work. Every page produces an effect. The end is as singular as the beginning. I never saw such a work before. R. L. Stevenson.
August 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
"Scottish Literature of the South Seas" is an essay collection ed. by Richard J. Hill & Allison E. Francis, examining the relationship & affinities between #ScottishWriters including & beyond #RLStevenson to the #Pacific

#ScottishLiterature #ScottishStudies #PacificStudies #PostcolonialStudies
Holding the book "Scottisch Literature of the South Seas" amidst a meadow in bloom, with a brightly pink flower in the foreground
August 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#CfP #CallforPapers on #RLStevenson #RobertLouisStevenson #Ecocriticism
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jul 28
Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026

This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work
#C19th #litstudies
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Call for papers: (Un)natural Stevenson Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science and gender Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 11-12 May 2026 Aula Baratto Organizers: Lucio De Capitani...
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July 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
billydee123.bsky.social
💙📚15 Horror Novels (caveated with this isn't my normal genre) 😨
No particular order
Day 12 /15
#Booksky 🪐📚👀
#bookchallenge
#Horror
#RLStevenson
Book cover. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) Shadowy cover featuring outline of man in top hat in a dark street. Portrait of Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, born Edinburgh 1850, died Samoa 1894. Scottish essayist, novelist, poet and travel writer.
May 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The “Davos Press” was RLS’s 12-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Lloyd printed several chapbooks on a toy printing press & hawked them around the sanatorium (& paid Stevenson royalties). You can find scans of the originals on the @natlibscot.bsky.social website
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Title page of MORAL EMBLEMS, by Robert Louis Stevenson, printed in a variety of serif and sans-serif fonts. Some letters are slightly under- or over-inked: MORAL EMBLEMS A Collection of Cuts and Verses by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Author of The Blue Scalper, Travels with a Donkey, Treasure Island, Not I etc. Printers: S. L. OSBOURNE & COMPANY. Davos-Platz
May 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
pieniebootekent.bsky.social
Some old Jekyll & Hyde sketches I never posted before :D #pencildrawing #pencilart #traditionaldrawing #traditionalart #drawing #myart #artistsonbluesky #art #sketches #jekyll&hyde #jekyllandhyde #drjekyllandmrhyde #henryjekyll #edwardhyde #rlstevenson #literature
Drawing of Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde from The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Drawing of Lanyon from The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
May 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Davos was also where Stevenson produced his MORAL EMBLEMS – a pastiche of Victorian didactic rhymes for children. His 12-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, printed the chapbooks on a toy printing press & hawked them around the sanatorium (& paid Stevenson royalties)
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Title page of MORAL EMBLEMS, by Robert Louis Stevenson, printed in a variety of fonts: MORAL EMBLEMS A Collection of Cuts and Verses by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Author of The Blue Scalper, Travels with a Donkey, Treasure Island, Not I etc. Printers: S. L. OSBOURNE & COMPANY. Davos-Platz
January 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
wrathofgodherself.bsky.social
Ah.. I grew up in places where (long reasons) we sometimes had no books except the entire works of Dickens, RLStevenson, Walter Scott, and odd tomes like 'how to learn Arabic/Archery' - so i was forced to write my own stories to stay sane, and developed a hunger for story in wider sense.
January 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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“To the Commissioners of Northern Lights”, a poem accompanying one of Stevenson’s lesser-known works, “On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses”, submitted to the Commissioners of Northern Lights in 1870 (online via the National Library of Scotland)
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To the Commissioners of Northern Lights Robert Louis Stevenson I send to you, commissioners, A paper that may please ye, sirs (For troth they say it might be worse‍‍ An’ I believe’t) And on your business lay my curse‍‍ Before I leav’t. I thocht I’d serve wi’ you, sirs, yince, But I’ve thocht better of it since; The matter I will nowise mince,‍‍ But tell ye true: I’ll service wi’ some ither prince,‍‍ An’ no wi’ you. I’ve no been very deep, ye’ll think, Cam’ delicately to the brink An’ when the water gart me shrink‍‍ Straucht took the rue, An’ didna stoop my fill to drink—‍‍ I own it true. I kent on cape and isle, a light Burnt fair an’ clearly ilka night; But at the service I took fright,‍‍ As sune’s I saw, An’ being still a neophite‍‍ Gaed straucht awa’. Anither course I now begin, The weeg I’Il cairry for my Sin, The court my voice shall echo in,‍‍ An’—wha can tell?— Some ither day I may be yin‍‍ O’ you mysel’.
August 18, 2024 at 11:51 AM
grahamsw.bsky.social
Nah, you're just human.
Everyone is a jerk sometimes, almost everyone is awesome sometimes. You just want to work on the ratio
Robert Louis Stevenson has an essay "Crabbed Age and Youth" about the difference between being 18 and being 40.
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May 3, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses

One of Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser-known publications – read before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on 27th March 1871, & awarded the Society’s Silver Medal

https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99383648
August 20, 2023 at 1:19 PM