Professor Dickinson's talent for evoking suspense, wonder and at times terror, owes much to his creation of a placid, scholarly atmosphere suddenly disturbed by the strange and inexplicable.

In this collection - which might well have been entitled "Ghost stories of a Scottish antiquary" - archaeologists, historians and scientists find themselves unexpectedly faced with a return from the past which comes to them in unusual, often frightening forms.

Almost every story is based on a well known event or incident, and the development of the story is so convincing that it is difficult to decide when - if ever - the known facts give way to pure imagination.

All good ghost stories should arouse curiosity, and some fear. Readers of this collection will certainly wonder if these strange happenings could, or indeed, did, occur. And, with a shudder down their spine, they will ask themselves: how, and why?

With a new Introduction by Susan Dickinson.

ISBN: 0 86391 063 7
192pp Hardback
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