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Item Details
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SCOTTISH GHOST STORIES
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| By: |
Rosemary Gray |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£2.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1840221682 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781840221688 |
| Publisher: |
WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
5 February, 2009 |
| Series: |
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural |
| Pages: |
624 |
| Description: |
A chilling collection of tales that illustrates Scotland's rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural. |
| Synopsis: |
Scotland has a notoriously rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural. Many of her greatest writers from Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg to Robert Louis Stevenson and John Buchan have explored the country's unique folkloric heritage to spine-chilling effect. From Highlands to Lowlands, from blasted heath or remote glen to wretched hovel or austere castle, the very topography lends itself somehow to the strange and unexplainable.Leading off Edinburgh's colourful Royal Mile, which runs from the Palace of Holyrood to the gaunt castle on the rock, there are many narrow 'wynds' - passages ancient and mysterious. As soon as you leave the sunshine and enter these dark and reeking ways you know that you are in a city full of ghosts and spirits - unhappy souls condemned for ever to roam this antique city. Tormented spectres like them throng the pages of this disquieting collection.Lock your door, turn up the lights, put extra logs on the fire and as you start to read, utter a fervent prayer: From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggety beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! If this plea fails to work and they choose to come for you, despair; there is no hope; there is no escape. In truth, dear reader, if you are of a nervous disposition and liable to fearings and fantasies we are not sure this book is entirely suitable for you. You have been warned. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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