Treasure Island is a dark story. Dark by the awareness that at the end of the road there are riches that go beyond the dreams of greed. Everyone knows something, they sense a dark secret, but no one knows everything except perhaps Billy Bones, the old captain who seems to have survived a life of pillage, slander, and greed. But he is about to die ... and although he is about to die, those who know something pester his damned soul.

They accentuate the premonitory feel of Pew the Blind's cane fluttering in the swirling haze of a solitary moor on the banks of the Bristol Channel. The threat of danger
Imminently becomes claustrophobic, it stuck like a wet shroud. The threat of a sailor with a wooden leg and the sinister visit of Black Dog with the hand mutilated approach.