Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales

Step into the low, peat-smoked gloaming of old Scotland, where the border between what is real and what is remembered grows thin. In these pages a queen of Elfland sweeps a ploughman named Thomas away to her green realm; a brownie works a farm by dark in exchange for nothing but kindness; a kelpie waits at the ford like a patient grey horse; and a Highland seer watches a funeral procession walk a road where no living soul has passed. Told in warm, clear modern prose, this faithful retelling of George Douglas's classic collection keeps every strange encounter and shadowy warning of the original while letting today's reader hear the tales as they were meant to be heard — spoken at the fireside, low and full of wonder. The fairies may have left the glens, but the stories stayed. Part of Timeless Classics.