Caledonia Dreamin' - Strange Fiction of Scottish Descent

edited by Hal Duncan and Chris Kelso

274 pages

Glaikit, mockit, droukit, drouthy, couthy, scunner, thrawn – the Scots language is rich with words too gallus not to glory in, dialect terms that deserve better than to be boxed away as precious oddities. Here we've collected some of the strangest writers of Scottish descent to bring these terms to life - that's Scottish by heritage or residence, adoption or initiation...

Sweeter Than, Neil Williamson

Maw, Wendy Muzlanova

Maukit, Brian Milton

Fallen through a Giant's Eyes, T.J. Berg

Newayr, Douglas Thompson

The Bouk Puppie Show, Preston Grassman

The Laird of Nagasaki, Tom Bradley

Palais 1930, Rob McClure Smith

The Losers, Angus McAllister

Drive the Warlike Angles into the Sea!!!, Nick Mamatas

Widows in the World, Gavin Grant

I am not (), Phil Raines

Studying Honeybloods with the Queen of Exotica, Kirsty Logan

Mary, Thomas and Joe, Stravaigin, David McGroarty

For Your Guising, Gio Clairval

Nae Greeance o' Bane, Tim Jarvis

Bowfin Island, Anna Tambour

It’s almost as if there’s a pulse throbbing through all the stories that insists you follow along with the beat. The book looks the readers straight in the eyes, demands attention and triggers reactions in a range from sadness, through nausea, to laughter. Margrét Helgadóttir - The Future Fire