A Scottish supernatural fiction collection from Weird House Press in hardcover, paperback and ebook

Scotland is the perfect location for supernatural story telling. All those lonely hillsides, stone circles, ancient buildings and fog are ripe for stories to be creeping about in.

Then there's all the fighting. A country that's been at war with either somebody else or with itself for most of its existence can't help but be filled with stories of love and loss, heroism and betrayal.

And when it's raining and dreich, what better than to sit by a fire with a stiff drink and tell some stories?

These ones are mine to tell, ranging from the borders to the highlands, the central belt to the far islands, and covering the depth and range of Scottish history.

In THE BROTHERHOOD The Midnight Eye, Derek Adams, encounters a cult in Glasgow that has its roots all the way back in the Crusades and a quest for a holy relic

In THE NEST something stirs in Medieval times in the bowels of the construction of a new island castle .

In THE BODY FROM THE MOSS a young Arthur Conan Doyle investigates a body brought out of an ancient peat bog that is still showing signs of life in Victorian Edinburgh.

In COMING THROUGH THE RYE an old folk song reverberates with a musical group performing in a studio in a converted castle keep, with devastating results.

In THE DUBH CASTLE BLACKTHORN something ancient and fey haunts the courtyard, and the laird, of a remote castle off the coast of Skye.

These, and the other stories present, cover a wide gamut of my weird storytelling interests.

Pull up a chair. The whisky is on me.

CONTENTS

• Brotherhood
• The Dreaming God Is Singing Where She Lies
• Carnacki: The Beast of Glamis
• Into the Light
• The Riddle in the Attic
• The Body From The Moss
• Genealogy
• Day Fevers
• The Nest
• Coming Through the Rye
• Carnacki: The Banshee
• The Fairy Coffins
• The Dubh Castle Blackthorn

Acknowledgements

• Carnacki: The Beast of Glamis appeared in Carnacki: Heaven and Hell, Dark Regions Press, 2013
• The Dreaming God is Singing Where She Lies appeared in Terror Tales of the Scottish Highlands, Gray Friars Press, 2015
• The Nest appeared in Occult Detective Quarterly #1, 2017
• Carnacki: The Banshee appeared in Carnacki: The Watcher at the Gate, Dark Regions Press, 2013

The rest of the stories herein are original to this collection.