Browse books about Scottish ghosts, hauntings, folklore, witchcraft, legends and paranormal history. The collection ranges from haunted castles and city ghost stories to Highland traditions, local mysteries and supernatural belief.
79 books found
Cover unavailableShetland Folk Tales
Shetland Folk Tales brings together twenty traditional stories shaped by the islands’ sea-bound landscape and distinctive storytelling culture. Mermaids and mermen appear alongside trows, witches, a njuggel and a seal, while tales such as ‘The…
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Cover unavailableSt Andrews Ghost Stories
St Andrews Ghost Stories gathers 17 supernatural tales linked to St Andrews and surrounding parts of Fife. W. T. Linskill’s collection includes the Beckoning Monk, the Veiled Nun of St Leonards and the Monk of…
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Cover unavailableSuperstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
John Gregorson Campbell records Highland and island traditions gathered from oral sources, preserving beliefs about fairies, omens, animals, prophecy and everyday supernatural danger. The collection includes tales of fairy women and other encounters with the…
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Cover unavailableTales From an Edinburgh Tour Guide
Drawing on his work as an Edinburgh guide, Graeme Milne explores the city’s fascination with ghosts and haunted places. Stories gathered through research and personal contacts sit alongside the perspective of someone who regularly introduces…
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Cover unavailableTales from Haunted Scotland
Graeme Milne brings together reported ghost stories from across Scotland, using eyewitness testimony to explore places with a reputation for supernatural activity. The collection ranges beyond his earlier Aberdeen and Edinburgh books to include Glasgow,…
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Cover unavailableTales from Haunted Scotland Volume 2
Graeme Milne continues his journey through Scotland’s haunted towns and cities in this second collection. Eyewitness accounts and historical archives underpin stories of reported supernatural experiences, extending the approach of the first volume. The book…
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Cover unavailableThe Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales gathers legends from across Scotland, bringing together stories shaped by regional customs, beliefs and dialects. Its selections include the Spaeman’s peculiar advice, a laird changed into a frog, and…
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Cover unavailableThe Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales: Volume II
This second anthology gathers folk tales from across Scotland, preserving stories shaped by regional customs, beliefs and dialects. The contributors are Scottish storytellers whose work forms part of The History Press’s Folk Tales series, bringing…
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Cover unavailableThe Complete Visitor’s Guide to Loch Ness, Inverness and the Loch Ness Monster
Combining a visitor’s guide with an exploration of the Loch Ness Monster, Andy Owens introduces Loch Ness and nearby Inverness through both place and legend. The book joins practical regional material with the mystery that…
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Cover unavailableThe Gaelic Otherworld
The Gaelic Otherworld gathers John Gregorson Campbell’s records of Gaelic belief and storytelling from the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Its first part considers fairies, fairy women, tutelary beings, the urisk, blue men, mermaids and water-horses,…
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Cover unavailableThe Great Scottish Witch-Hunt
The Great Scottish Witch-Hunt examines the most intense phase of Scotland’s witch persecutions, focusing on the years 1658–1662. Maxwell-Stuart considers how accusations brought women and men before the authorities, with some condemned to strangulation or…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen
The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen surveys the Granite City through its folklore, historic curiosities and reports of unexplained events. Geoff Holder covers magic, witchcraft, superstitions and urban legends alongside gargoyles, graveyards, prehistoric burial sites, stone…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Arran
The Guide to Mysterious Arran gathers reports, traditions and historical curiosities from across the Isle of Arran. Geoff Holder covers the 1889 Arran Murder, the reputed healing stone of St Molaise, traditions linking the island…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Iona and Staffa
The Guide to Mysterious Iona and Staffa brings together reported supernatural experiences, folklore and curious traditions from two Hebridean islands. Geoff Holder considers stories involving fairies, martyrs, Celtic gods, telepathy, exorcism, magic, druids, witches, mermaids,…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness & the Inverness Area
Geoff Holder’s guide gathers reports, traditions and historical accounts linked to Loch Ness and the Inverness area. Its subjects range from Celtic gods, saints and martyrs to telepathy, exorcism, magic, mermaids and demons, drawing on…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Perthshire
Geoff Holder’s guide gathers Perthshire’s reported mysteries, folklore and oddities, arranging them by geographical location across the county. Its subjects range from standing stones, tombstones, gargoyles and archaeological curiosities to accounts of ghosts, fairies and…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Skye & Lochalsh
Geoff Holder’s guide gathers reports, legends and historical traditions from across Skye, Raasay, nearby islands and mainland Lochalsh. Its regional entries range from the dark corries of the Cuillins and coastal caves to castles, ancient…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Stirlingshire
The Guide to Mysterious Stirlingshire surveys the county’s ancient sites, archaeological curiosities and historic buildings, linking them with local stories and traditions. Stirling Castle and Dunblane Cathedral appear alongside strange carvings, stone circles, healing wells…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted North Two: Paranormal Tales from Aberdeen and the North East
The second Haunted North collection returns to Aberdeen and the surrounding region with further accounts from Graeme Milne’s investigations. Schools, community centres and public buildings feature among the locations examined. Witnesses describe apparitions, poltergeist disturbances…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted North: Paranormal Tales from Aberdeen and the North East
Graeme Milne collects paranormal tales from Aberdeen and the north-east of Scotland, ranging from haunted buildings and ghostly apparitions to local supernatural traditions. It is a regional survey of the stories and places that have…
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Cover unavailableThe Lore of Scotland: A Guide to Scottish Legends
The Lore of Scotland gathers legends, beliefs, customs and traditional stories from across the country, arranged through its regions and local landscapes. Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill include tales of heroes, bloody feuds, giants, fairies,…
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Cover unavailableThe Mystery Animals of the Northern Isles
Glen Vaudrey examines reports of mystery animals associated with Scotland’s Northern Isles, placing cryptozoological claims alongside local folklore and questions about what may remain undiscovered. The book considers accounts of animals known only from limited…
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Cover unavailableThe Mystery Animals of the Western Isles
The Western Isles provide the setting for accounts of sea serpents, dragons, monsters, ghostly animals and other creatures preserved in local tradition or reported by witnesses. Glen Vaudrey considers what lies behind these stories, including…
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Cover unavailableThe Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
Robert Kirk’s account presents Scottish traditions about elves, fauns, fairies and other subterranean beings, described through reports linked to Highland communities and second-sight seers. These entities occupy a position between human and angelic nature, with…
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Cover unavailableThe Silver Bough
The Silver Bough is the first volume of F. Marian McNeill’s four-volume study of Scottish folklore, folk-belief and festival tradition. It considers the survival and transformation of older beliefs within Scottish culture, including material connected…
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Cover unavailableThe Visions of Isobel Gowdie
Emma Wilby examines Isobel Gowdie’s 1662 confessions at Auldearn, placing one of Scotland’s most vivid witchcraft testimonies within its legal, religious and folkloric setting. The study asks how much of the recorded material reflects Gowdie’s…
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Cover unavailableThe Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes
Dorothy K. Haynes’ Scottish supernatural fiction brings together cruel childhoods, fairy folklore and witchcraft. Edited by Craig Lamont, with a foreword by Johnny Mains, this British Library collection includes rare and previously unpublished stories, with…
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Cover unavailableUncanny Clydeside
MJ Steel Collins explores supernatural stories and darker history in Glasgow and the surrounding Clyde area. Poltergeists, railway ghosts and university hauntings appear alongside body-snatching and accusations of witchcraft in Paisley and Pollok. The collection…
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Cover unavailableWestern Isles Folk Tales
Ian Stephen gathers stories from across the Western Isles, combining traditional narrative with memories of island life and community custom. The collection reflects a culture shaped by oral storytelling, where tales could preserve local character…
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Cover unavailableWitchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
John Gregorson Campbell records Highland and Island traditions concerning witchcraft, charms, second sight and warnings of death. The collection includes stories of witches affecting milk, raising storms, causing drownings and taking the forms of animals…
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Cover unavailableWitchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670–1740
Lizanne Henderson examines Scottish witchcraft and witch belief from 1670 to 1740, a period often associated with the decline of prosecutions and the emergence of the Scottish Enlightenment. Rather than treating the end of the…
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