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Post by dem bones on Mar 26, 2010 18:35:53 GMT
with several of our regulars in Brighton for the World Horror Con it's likely to be a quiet weekend on here, so will drift up some stubs ..... Starting with: Rosemary Gray (ed.) – Scottish Ghost Stories (Wordsworth, 2009) John Buchan - The Watcher by the Threshold ------------- The Outgoing of the Tide ------------- Skull Skerry ------------- No Man’s Land ------------- Summer Weather ------------- The Oasis in the Snow ------------- The Far Islands S.R. Crockett - A Cry Across the Black Water James Hogg - The Story of Euphemia Hewit ------------- The Brownie of the Black Haggs ------------- The Mysterious Bride ------------- 'Mary Burnet’ Andrew Lang - Ticonderoga George MacDonald - The Old Nurse’s Story Robert Marshall - The Haunted Major Margaret Oliphant - Old Lady Mary ------------- The Open Door ------------- The Library Window ------------- The Portrait Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber ------------- Wandering Willie’s Tale ------------- My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror Robert Louis Stevenson - Ticonderoga: A Legend of the West Highlands ------------- Markheim ------------- Thrawn Janet ------------- The Body-Snatcher ------------- Olalla Anonymous - The Ghost of Craig-Aulnaic ------------- The Doomed Rider ------------- The Weird of the Three Arrows ------------- The Laird of Balmachie’s Wife ------------- Michael Scott ------------- The Haunted Ships Local Records - Glamis Castle What with a terrifying pile of half-finished novels to polish off, have barely had time to give this 620 pager a glance, but it looks solid enough. Rosemary Gray is the lady who edited the enormous Wordsworth Special Edition Gripping Yarns.
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Post by cw67q on Mar 27, 2010 21:37:21 GMT
If the inclusion of so many tales by Buchan indicates that he is past the copyright cut off, then Wordsorth should definately consider him as worthy of a stand alone volume. Maybe even a straight reprint of the Runagates Club? Which would be mostly mystery stories I believe, with only one or two horror/supernatural outings.
- chris
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Post by monker on Mar 28, 2010 2:11:19 GMT
I loved Buchan's Skule Skerry until it ended as if it was all just a case of misidentification - pity that. Other short stories I've read of his remind me a bit of Algernon Blackwood but just not at his very best.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 12, 2023 15:39:00 GMT
Rescued from this morning's market, the later edition with new design #1 (c. 2012?) Rosemary Gray [ed.] - Scottish Ghost Stories (Wordsworth, 2009) Nathan Clair Blurb: 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 the company of ghosts and spirits unhappy souls condemned for ever to roam this antique city. Tormented spectres like them wander 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, pray to be delivered from 'ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night.'
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