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Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks (7 Mar 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0751513938
ISBN-13: 978-0751513936
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2 cm
Average Customer Review: (1 customer review)
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 285,600 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Synopsis
This is a collection of ghost stories based on a mixture of local history and folklore. The stories are from past and present. Some, such as "The Hauntings of Glamis Castle" or "The Tale of Major Weir" are well known, while others are less familiar, such as "The Deil of Littledean".

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How theyre told in Scotland., 10 Mar 2005

By	John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scottish Ghost Stories: Unabridged (Audio Cassette)

I have read helpful and detailed appreciations of this book on the Internet. I shall just add two points. Firstly, I think the book's great strength is that it is written by a skeptic. Ghost stories are not likely to be taken seriously if their reporting is sensationalized. James Robertson has collected and presented them with just the right mix of detached scholarship and narrative simplicity. Secondly, it should be obvious that ghost stories are ideal material for old-fashioned listening rather than for reading. Accordingly, I strongly recommend the Soundings audio version of this book, enabling you to hear the Scottish ghost stories told by a Scotsman. James Bryce delivers them beautifully, tossing the place names and off with ready familiarity.

With its prolific folklore and long history of civil strife, its many ancient castles and churches, its many bleak, windswept and lonely locations for human habitation, Scotland has been a fertile place for the growth of tales of the supernatural. Most such tales date from earlier more credulous times than ours but Robertson's collection includes recent examples.

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