#markheim

[sammyay]

I think I found a wonderful short story. Robert Louis Stevenson is truly spoiling me. Imagine if you will, the plot of crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky. And now add pondering about “if one is unable to do good, must he only do evil?” for all you Jekyll and Hyde girlies read this as a prelude of sorts, I wish the story was a bit more fleshed out but the concept itself? Yum.

the story is called “Markheim” and was published in 1885. I’m sobbing.

[eksentrismi]

Quick doodle for now, because I'm tired. But anyways, my design for Markheim! Might do more drawings of him at some point later, but yeah. Great short story, I liked it, hehe <333 Brains go brrrr

Some alternate versions under text cut!

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

“Look, Markheim, you have been thirty five years in this world, and your character has changed steadily throughout the years, always for the worse, is that not true?

Is there any crime you feel you could not now commit? If there is, name it, and within five years from now I shall watch while you commit it! The long road you have come leads only down, nothing but death can stop your descent!”

(I’ve been listening to old radio dramas on archive.org. This is a dinosaur of one of my favourites. I also went and listened to the 1885 short story of Markheim on Librivox, and it turned out the radio drama added quite a lot of dialogue.)

[no-side-us-art]

Old drawings I made based off Markheim

[plantsarecooleh]

heh… i just bought a little collage of Stevenson’s short stories and novellas… I’ve heard really good things about markheim, gonna check that out first… will update later :)

[rye-kin]

I FUCKING LOVE THUS STORY….

Recently reread Markheim after 4 years of vaguely remembering it… and loved it as much as I remembered… I have so much to say abt it, but anywayyyzzz

Here’s a mock cover I made a night ago <33

[hydejoe]

the people are discovering markheim fuck yeasss it's one of my favourite rls stories. read markheim and read the bodysnatchers while you're at it

[mysterytheater]

“Murder is to me no special category,” replied the other. “All sins are murder, even as all life is war. I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other’s lives. I follow sins beyond the moment of their acting; I find in all that the last consequence is death."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim