With twelve stories, this collection showcases well known Scottish writers including John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. Just in time for a Halloween reading!
The Scottish landscape is made for ghost stories, with misty moors, abandoned castles, rocky highlands, lonesome lochs, and a looming sense of history. This collection contains ghost stories originally published between the 100 years spanning from 1821 to 1921. There are doubtless great Scottish ghost stories that have been penned in the past 100 years, but this selection captures a perfectly spooky cross-section. The mood ranges from light and comical to genuinely unnerving. As Helen McClory writes in the introduction, “a whisper of the old ways and fireside murmurings” lingers over these tales of “loss and inescapable return.” 255 page paperback.
