As she said to me, it’s not the sort of tale one can tell to a “family” audience. If you know of a great venue for her to repeat her telling, she’d love to know. Special kudos for the evening go to Elsa Sellmeyer, a new Voices In The Glen teller, who gave us all the shivers with Edgar Allen Poe’s The Telltale Heart.
About the latter story, Anne said she first heard it as a teenager, and it’s been scaring her ever since. Briggs says she collected it from Tongue in 1963 who heard it from “Annie’s grannie” in 1910. The former is from Folktales of England, edited by Katherine Briggs and Ruth L. Jonathan Metcalf-Burton told Andrew Coffee from the book Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs.Īnne Sheldon gave us Tibbs Cat and the Apple-Tree Man and The Golden Arm.
Edition 1966 1st published as Gaelic Ghosts by The Bodley Head Ltd.We gathered at the home of Eve Burton and Roger Metcalf in Gaithersburg MD, on Saturday, October 29, 2016, for an evening of Dark Tales for the Dark Moon.īill Mayhew started the telling with a joke, a jump and How I Spent My Summer Vacation, a tale about the notorious Elisabeth Bathory (1560-1614), about whom Wikipedia says, “ She has been labeled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer, though the precise number of her victims is debated.”īill was followed by Margaret Chatham with a telling of The Boy Who Drew Cats, a Japanese folktale translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Much wear to cover, spine slight spine tilt age-toning to pages. Hogrogian, Nonny (Text illustrations by), and Moesker, Terry (Wraparound color cover illustration by)įair. Bookseller Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US). These 20 stories came to the author "in bits and pieces". Highland Scots are known for their tales of the weird and uncanny. Hogrogian, Nonny (Text illustrations by), and Moesker, Terry (Wraparound color cover illustration by). 1966 1st published as Gaelic Ghosts by The Bodley Head Ltd. London / Sydney: Pan Books / A Piccolo Book, 1974.
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