It’s impossible to have missed the Outlander TV series, but the books still make great reading. Impeccably researched and based around the idea of Scotland’s magical stone circles – swooning included for free.
Written by a witch for other would-be witches, part autobiography, part instruction manual. Want to sharpen up those Wicca skills? Then this is the book for you.
3. The Children’s Vampire Hunting Brigade by David Blake Lucarelli
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A graphic novel based on the eerie tale of a huge band of children found in a Glasgow graveyard in 1954, armed and hunting a vampire with iron teeth said to have killed two boys. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
The Last Girl to Die by Helen Fields is out on September 1 (Avon, £7.99)
The original and best. Scotland has witch tales aplenty, but Shakespeare brought us the weird sisters who prophesy the destiny of Macbeth, and who turn an otherwise predictable tale of vengeance into something altogether more unsettling.
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Love her or loathe her, Rowling opened the gates of her vast imagination when she sat in that Edinburgh cafe, but the magic isn’t all conjured from her mind. Many of the beings she writes about are borne of legend, and recreated from Scotland’s mythical past.
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