Scottish Tales of Terror

by Angus Campbell, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Macdonald Robertson

Scotland - land of mists and monsters, bogles and beasties - where phantom pipers roam the glens and kelpies lure travellers to the nigh-black lochs...

The demon witches of Auldearn
The Galloway cannibals
The haunted mirror of Holyrood
The Edinburgh grave-robber
The walking corpse of Ben More
The Black Watch nightmare
The evil merman of Cape Wrath

and many more fearsome stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keir Cross, Walter Scott, Ronald Duncan, Arthur Conan Doyle and other masters of the macabre.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Thriller

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Pseudonym of R. Chetwynd Hayes

Reviews

[Shawn]

PLACEHOLDER REVIEW

"The Horns Of The Bull" by W.S. Morrison - A fable in which a powerful sea-faring father has two sons of different natures by two wives, and the sons have enmity between themselves. On the Father's death, one betrays his last wish... More a Fantasy that a horror/terror story, but its voice reads as authentic.

[Lynne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ancient copy recently rediscovered and now, several of the stories particularly 'Shona and the Waterhorse' and 'Brown God in the Beginning' are not just disturbing but simply wrong by today's values.

Clearly a relic given that it was first published in the early 70s; would imagine this copy came from a charity shop way back during the teenage years.