The word electricity now sounds the note of danger. […] a new sort of urban star now shines out nightly, horrible, unearthly, obnoxious to the human eye; a lamp for a nightmare!

Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘A Plea for Gas Lamps’ (1878)

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Robin Stevenson's new picture book Ghost's Journey: A Refugee Story tells the true story of a gay couple's journey from Indonesia to Canada through the eyes of their cat Ghost https://t.co/GmVuQBxNps

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The logical paradox at the centre of RL Stevenson's 1891 story, 'The Bottle Imp', is said to be inspired by the Grimm tale 'Spiritus Familiaris.' Here we have:

'Der Flaschenteufel' (1952) dir. Ferdinand Diehl.

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Superbe réinterprétation de la carte de l'île au trésor de façon par Tony Davis () (avec en prime son évolution dans le temps)
Impatient de voir la suite de son idée de réinterprétation d'autres lieux frictionnels.
https://t.co/cwberaahMB

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From thinking about a hypothetical Wonder Woman prequel TV show, ala Krypton, I remembered a similar story from Noelle Stevenson and James T Tynion IV in the Sensation Comics anthology comic & called Wonder World. Where teenaged Diana comes to Mansworld to help a sister.

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In Japanese Ogin (お銀) means "silver". A reference to Long John Silver the emblematic pirate from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. Fanart by イコモチ https://t.co/1eLd80AnUu

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👉🏼Sunday’s 11th of August markets 👈🏾

Northern Quarter Makers Market, Stevenson Square, Mcr, 11-5pm

Warrington Makers Market, Queens Gardens, Warrington, 11-4pm

We’ve got great food, drink, art, design, vintage and music. Free entry. Pop over to spend Sunday with us...

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Stevenson also designed the Flannan Isle Lighthouse, infamous for the mysterious disappearance of its lighthouse keepers in 1900. To this day no one knows what took place in the lighthouse that night.

Read more about this enduring mystery: https://t.co/BLbvmyoljG

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Evensong ... new oil painting 65 x 65 cms

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'Caught in the Spider's Web' from Little Folks Magazine. Illustration by D. Newsome. The first magazine to serialise Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped'.

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Two colorful Broadway revue costume designs for from : Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson for "The Greenwich Village Follies of 1926," and Gladys Monkhouse for 1917 Hippodrome spectacle, "Cheer Up."

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"It was the damp, midgy August of 1881, when 'it blew a good deal & rained in proportion'..Robert Louis Stevenson, weak, tired & spitting blood, was recuperating in Braemar.." My essay on the writing of Treasure Island for https://t.co/NGpQX9qYwz

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