Tales for Twilight
Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Birlinn General
Published:5th Oct '23
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
'Celebrating Scottish storytelling at its best'
* Sunday Post *'Flickering candlelight is the best backdrop for optimum appreciation of Tales for Twilight, selected by Alistair Kerr, aficionado of Scottish ghost stories'
-- Michael Carter * Tablet *'As well as being an excellent collection of enjoyable ghost stories, the book serves as a rather fine sampler of the work of some of the very best authors Scotland has produced in the past two centuries'
-- Ken Lussey * Undiscovered Scotland *'The tradition of oral storytelling has spanned centuries and Scottish authors, including George Mackay Brown, Muriel Spark and Ian Rankin, have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. ‘Tales for Twilight’ features fifteen chilling stories from two centuries of great Scottish writers. Get ready for Halloween...'
* The LiISBN: 9781846976520
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 273g
308 pages
New in Paperback