Dark Encounters - A Collection of Ghost Stories

Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories first published in 1963. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity - often referring to real events, objects and people.

About the author

William Croft Dickinson, CBE (28 August 1897 – May 1963) was an English historian, a leading expert in the history of early modern Scotland and an author of both children’s fiction and adult ghost stories.
Alistair W. J. Kerr was born in Scotland. His father was an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, who later became an academic. Alistair studied History and Law at the University of Edinburgh and later became a civil servant. He is the author of Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC (Cambridge Academic, 2015).

Summary

Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories first published in 1963. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity – often referring to real events, objects and people.

Product details

• Authors: William Croft Dickinson
• Assisted by: Alistair W.J. Kerr (Introduction)
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781846976568
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-656-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / General, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Fantasy / Paranormal, FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, FICTION / Gothic, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Horror & ghost stories, Classic horror & ghost stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, FICTION / Horror / General, Classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction