Tag Archives: Robert Louis Stevenson

Three Uncanny Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

Audio versions of Three Uncanny Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson  are available as free downloads from ASLS and read online (via YouTube).

Tale o Tod Lapraik read by James Robertson

Thrawn Janet read by Alan Bissett

The Bottle Imp read by Louise Welsh

See website for more information:
https://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/StrangeTales.html

The Tale o Tod Lapraik

The Scots in Schools website features a collection of literature written in Scots or translated from standard English into Scots.

One of the stories is a comic version of The Tale o Tod Lapraik by Robert Louis Stevenson, which you can download to read in colour or black and white, or listen to as a n audio version (on a different website – see below):

“Robert Louis Stevenson’s horror story The Tale o Tod Lapraik is a masterpiece of prose written in the Scots language. Scots Hoose is delighted to present Gary Welsh’s world-class artwork in this exciting new comic version of Stevenson’s classic story of suspense and cruelty set in the Firth of Forth on the mysterious Bass Rock.”

http://www.scotsinschools.co.uk/secondary.html