Rosemary Gray – Scottish Ghost Stories

[dem bones]

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 and see if any tickle your fancy .....

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, I've 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.

[cw67q]

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

[monker]

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.