He stresses the strong impression Treasure Island left on him: “… frightening but in a positive way.” I must have read it when I was 11 or 12 and that’s a great

He stresses the strong impression Treasure Island left on him: “… frightening but in a positive way.” I must have read it when I was 11 or 12 and that’s a great way to summarize the feelings it evoked. In fact, I still can feel the dread of trading Jim’s account of the blind beggar pushing the piece of paper into his hand! On that note I also remember how much I enjoyed Haggard’s She (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/She:_A_History_of_Adventure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/She:_A_History_of_Adventure) but the end was quite frightening, too. I still distinctly remember even the color is the couch cover (and it’s feeling on my skin) on which I read that ending.