Scotsferatu

Scotsferatu examines the place of the vampire in Scottish culture, history and folklore, challenging the assumption that undead blood-drinkers belong mainly to continental Europe. Dee Lawlor traces Scottish traditions and reported encounters, including the Highland baobhan-sìth, a vampiric female figure associated with the Highlands, and a 16th-century stranger in Galloway suspected by locals of being a vampire.

The book also brings the subject into more recent memory with an account of a vampire said to have terrorised wildlife around Lochmaben in the 1990s. Alongside these cases, it presents the vampire as a recurring Scottish horror figure, linking older folklore with the continuing cultural life of the undead in Scotland.