This book is selected by Rosemary Gray. 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.
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