Uncany Clydeside

MJ Steel Collins Beulaithrispublishing.co.uk 2017 Pb, 69pp, bib,£5.99, ISBN 9781520787428

Local historians and folklorists often record local material that the bigger and more academic surveys overlook. In this slim, privately published volume, Steel Collins, a Glasgow-based author, dives below the stormy political history of this region to excavate local stories of ghosts, poltergeists and witches, closing with an account of the shady early 19th century trade of supplying corpses to the training hospitals for dissection; all engagingly told.