Tales for Twilight : Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories

Author: Alistair W.J. Kerr

Fiction & related items

Published on 5 October 2023 by Birlinn General (Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 308 pages
130 x 198 x 27mm | 268g

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.