Dark Encounters

The Keepers of the Wall
‘I SEE THAT someone has discovered a number of skeletons beneath the foundations of a wall and has brought forward the old idea that they were put there so that their ghosts could hold up the wall.’

‘And why not?’ interposed Henderson. ‘It was long thought that burying a body under a wall would help to hold the wall secure.’

‘Didn’t Gordon Childe find something like that at Skara Brae?’ queried Drummond.

Introduction by Alistair Kerr

1 The Keepers of the Wall

2 Return at Dusk

3 The Eve of St Botulph

4 Can These Stones Speak?

5 The Work of Evil

6 The Return of the Native

7 Quieta non Movere

8 Let the Dead Bury the Dead

9 The Castle Guide

10 The Witch’s Bone

11 The Sweet Singers

12 The House of Balfother

13 His Own Number

14 The MacGregor Skull

Notes

A Note on the Author of the Introduction