Weekend Diversion: Happy Birthday, Robert Louis Stevenson

By Prescott Carlson in Miscellaneous on Nov 13, 2010 8:00PM

Scottish novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, and would have been 160 years old today if only he had been one of the Immortals and not prone to the cerebral hemorrhage that brought him down at the age of 44. While Google is honoring the author of Treasure Island with a fancy ass doodle, we decided to celebrate his birthday by presenting you with the creepiest reading of a Stevenson poem that you're ever, ever going to witness: