In Fiction
"Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
According to Don Rosa, Castle McDuck, the ancestral home of Scrooge McDuck's family, the Clan McDuck is located in Dismal Downs somewhere on Rannoch Moor.
In DC Comics' Swamp Thing Rannoch Moor was the site of MacCobb castle, home of the werewolf Ian MacCobb.
In the 1996 film Trainspotting, Tommy and the gang get off an Intercity train to "get some fresh air" on a hike at Corrour railway station, which is located on Rannoch Moor.
In The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson, Rufus MacIan says "On the Muir of Rannoch, they grow braw, or they grow na at all".
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“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)