The Old Telling A Ghost Story of Angelsey - A Tale of Tales From Old Wales

"She had been there before the saints, and had been there when the saints came, and had been there afterwards, when the saints had ceased to come." In the summer of 1883, Frances Marwood — a scholar of ancient mythology and a careful investigator for the Society for Psychical Research — travels to a quiet parish on the eastern coast of Anglesey at the invitation of an old school friend. There is talk of a small local haunting: a figure at a stile, lights in a field, a tapping at a cottage window. There is also an old woman in that same cottage, Modlen Roberts, who is said to know the old Welsh tales as no one else now living. Frances goes, notebook in hand, expecting folklore. What she finds, told to her quietly over a fire across the long afternoons of a Welsh summer, will turn the whole architecture of her work — and the faith she thought she had quietly left behind — exactly the wrong way up. A long, slow ghost story in the manner of M.R. James, Walter de la Mare, and Algernon Blackwood. Original fiction. Approximately 90 minutes of unhurried, patient strangeness. 🕯️ Best heard: late evening, lamp low, no interruptions For My Mother Kay Wilson on Mother's Day and Her Mother Edith Humphries Edwards