A chilling collection of tales that illustrates Scotland's rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural.

Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. Perhaps it's because of the tradition of oral storytelling that has stretched over centuries, including poems and ballads with supernatural themes. The golden age was during the Victorian and Edwardian period, but the ghost story has continued to evolve and remains popular to this day. Includes stories from Sir Walter Scott, George Mackay Brown, Muriel Spark, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy Boothby, Algernon Blackwood, Eileen Bigland, Ronald Duncan, James Robertson and Ian Rankin.

Inheriting the tradition of Hugh Miller, the nineteenth century folklorist and stonemason (whose own haunted life is the subject of the opening chapter), James Robertson has, where possible, researched the original or oldest written source and visited the site of each story to compile the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the Scottish supernatural. Some of the stories gathered here are deservedly famous, such as those associated with Glamis Castle or the tale of Major Weir, while others ('The Deil of Littledean' and 'The Drummer of Cortachy') are less familiar or even contemporary accounts related to the author personally - but all are equally intriguing and fascinating reflections of the culture and period to which they belong. Neither a wary sceptic nor a fanatical believer, but an advocate of the validity of individual experience of the strange and unexplainable, James Robertson's Scottish Ghost Stories is an imaginative and chilling recasting of an established Scottish ghost-hunting and story-telling tradition - a homage to the particular mystery and character of a land which continues to produce ghosts whether from den to glen, Highlands to Lowlands, Catholic to Protestant.

"Scottish Ghost Stories" by Elliott O'Donnell is a thrilling display that looks at Scotland's supernatural world via a combination of frightening stories and actual-life supernatural encounters. The book via O'Donnell, which got here out within the early 1900s, tells stories and solutions puzzles approximately the Scottish panorama. The book talks about a number of exclusive sorts of ghostly occasions that came about in Scotland's long and interesting beyond. These encompass apparitions of well-known humans, fights between ghosts, haunted castles, and greater. O'Donnell skillfully puts together recollections of ghostly meetings with the help of legends, neighborhood stories, and her very own study. O'Donnell paints a beautiful image of Scotland's abnormal and frightening landscapes thru vibrant storytelling. She also shows readers the scary and otherworldly components of American records. In his testimonies, ghosts show up, which has been part of Scottish way of life for a totally long time. It's a thrilling blend of scary memories and records about the beyond. "Scottish Ghost Stories" is a thrilling examine the supernatural that attracts readers into the wealthy tapestry of Scotland's haunted facts and takes them on a scary excursion of america' haunted past.

Atmospheric, chilling and often witty tales from the storytellers of ancient and modern phantom appearances From the misty air of the highlands, to the reekie streets of Edinburgh's underground city, comes an entertaining selection of classic and mysterious Scottish ghost stories, including ‘The Screaming Skull of Greyfriars’, ‘Mary Burnet’, ‘Wandering Willie’s Tale’ and ‘Glamis Castle’, from the pen of John Buchan, Elliott O’Donnell, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott and more. From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction FLAME TREE 451 offers tales, myths and epic literature from the beginnings of humankind, through the medieval era to the stories of imagination and dark romance of today.