A very interesting list.

A few years ago I watched a BBC2 programme on RLS and his life and travels which were an eye opener for me. His literary reputation revived by the Inklings after the patronising literary dismissal by Stephens and Woolf.

Read Treasure Island not as a child but later and of course Jekyll and Hyde. That is one of the greatest horror stories ever written. And like all iconic horror stories mirrors the anxieties of the age no matter when it is read. Alcohol in his day but cloning or genetic engineering today. Dead at 44. But what a life.