"I am certain that most of the devout Christians present might know what to expect if he or she attempts to cross the river after dark... The newly married Dr Francis and Elizabeth Woods arrive in Ingerley in 1880 to make their new home together. For Elizabeth it s a return to the place where her father has been the resident doctor for several years and from whom her husband will be taking over. It all promises a cosy, comfortable future for the young couple. However, despite the idyllic setting,...
Here s a large number of Michael s stories, mostly supernatural, but with an unusual viewpoint. They take the existence of the supernatural for granted, but mostly from a very practical Glaswegian viewpoint of what s in it for me? which is shared by the ghosts themselves. How much d you charge to haunt hooses? is a common Glasgow insult, but you get the impression that Michael s ghosts come with a rate card and a list of penalty clauses on the back. There s a lot of old-style Glasgow socialism here...
"The poor wretched soul had a broken neck, so he had concluded that she had been hung and buried here rather than being burned at the stake...." Roundabouts are regarded as bad in general by most drivers, but this one is more malign than most, and that's only when it's being built. Perhaps a cross roads is best left alone. Then there is the aspiring guitarist who really does having burning ambitions, a supposedly abandoned Hebridean island, a lost child in a ruined abbey, the never-ending vestiges...
Sometimes you re living life within what you think are the regular mundanities and the otherworldly slips in without warning. It can be slight, or it can be overt. Either way, you know your existence has fundamentally changed forever and you might never get your head around it. Within this book are tales of such events, tales that may just stick with you and make you question are things as they should be or is there just something else going on just outside our ken? So, from a camera that isn t just...
