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Scottish Ghost Stories (1911)

by Elliott O'Donnell(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd.

review 1: This book is very much of the time (1911). The stories are tame comparatively to the more modern type of ghost story. What I most liked about this book is the smug classist attitude of O'Donnell, which seems so redolent of the time period. In one story he recounts the necessity of the lady of the house sending the servants away in order to make contact with the supernatural presence and he strongly condones her actions on the basis that no presence worth its salt would appear in front of the proletariat! An amusing and very easy read.
review 2: Anyone may wonder if I'm excited for Hallowe'en, with all these books I'm reading lately! Scottish Ghost Stories is a good book, written in the 19th century in the same style as those other great classics. This part... moreicular book is an outline of various reported hauntings across the Scottish countryside. The stories are dark, speaking very much to the Victorian or Edwardian mind and their fascination and fear of the supernatural. What I like is that most stories have an explanation of the haunting appearance of some sort. I would definitely recommend this book to all, though parents may be very sensitive with some of the stories as they involve the murder of children and infants, and the doomed souls of those that perform such heinous crimes. less

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