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Tales for Twilight Alistair W.J. Kerr

Tales for Twilight By Alistair W.J. Kerr

Tales for Twilight by Alistair W.J. Kerr


$20.99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Tales for Twilight takes the reader on a 200 year journey of Scottish ghost stories, with unnerving tales by writers such as James Hogg in the early eighteenth century, all the way to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first.

Tales for Twilight Summary

Tales for Twilight: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories by Alistair W.J. Kerr

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.

Tales for Twilight Reviews

'Flickering candlelight is the best backdrop for optimum appreciation of Tales for Twilight, selected by Alistair Kerr, aficionado of Scottish ghost stories'

-- Michael Carter * Tablet *

'As well as being an excellent collection of enjoyable ghost stories, the book serves as a rather fine sampler of the work of some of the very best authors Scotland has produced in the past two centuries'

-- Ken Lussey * Undiscovered Scotland *

About Alistair W.J. Kerr

Alistair W. J. Kerr was born in Scotland. His father was an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, who later became an academic. Alistair studied History and Law at the University of Edinburgh and later became a civil servant. He is the editor of Dark Encounters: A Collection of Scottish Ghost Stories (Polygon, 2017).

Additional information

GOR011991440
9781846975264
1846975263
Tales for Twilight: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories by Alistair W.J. Kerr
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Birlinn General
20211014
308
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