01815cam a2200289 i 4500 1575240736 TxAuBib 20240909120000.0 230817s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781846976520 1846976529 TxAuBib rda Tales for Twilight : Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories / edited by Alistair W.J. Kerr. Edinburgh : Polygon, 2023. 275 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Strange lettter to a lunatic, to Mr. James Hogg, of Mount Benger / James Hogg -- The trapestried chamber / Sir Walter Scott -- A tale for twilight / Anonymous -- Horror--a true story / Anonymous -- The open door / Margaret Oliphant -- The body-snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The captain of the pole-star / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The grey cavalier of Penterton Hall / Guy Boothby -- Keeping his promise / Algernon Blackwood -- The lass with the delicate air / Eileen Bigland -- Consanguinity -- Ronald Duncan -- The drowned rose / George Mackay Brown -- The girl I left behind / Muriel Spark -- One night in the library / James Robertson -- I live here now / Ian Rankin. 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. 20240909. Ghost stories, English Scotland. Short stories, English Scotland. Short stories. Horror fiction. Kerr, Alistair, editor, (Alistair W. J.)