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Scottish BookAuthor: Alistair W.J. Kerr
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A chilling anthology of Scottish ghost stories compiled over two centuries. Perfect for readers who love haunting folklore, eerie atmospheres and spine-tingling short tales deeply rooted in Scotland’s haunted past.
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Quietly unsettling and rich in atmosphere, Tales for Twilight is a ghost story collection that understands the power of suggestion. It rewards slow reading and a willingness to let shadows do the talking.
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Tales for Twilight draws together a long Scottish tradition of unsettling fiction, tracing how the ghost story has shifted and endured across centuries. From early nineteenth-century moral unease to modern, quieter forms of dread, these stories share a sense that the past is never done with us, and that certain places remember too much.
The collection moves from the folkloric darkness of James Hogg through the measured unease of Sir Walter Scott and Margaret Oliphant, to the sharp, often ambiguous hauntings of Robert Louis Stevenson and Muriel Spark. Later voices, including George Mackay Brown, James Robertson, and Ian Rankin, show how the supernatural still finds room to breathe.
Across these tales, ghosts are rarely just apparitions. They are memories, guilt, unfinished business. Read at dusk or deep into the night, Tales for Twilight offers quiet chills rather than shocks, and a reminder of how skilfully Scottish writers have learned to listen to what lingers.
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