SCOTTISH SEA MONSTER HORROR: ‘The Kelpie’ By Manly Wade Wellman
‘What was that Thing that rose up out of the little aquarium?–a brief tale of horror.’
— Weird Tales, July 1936
Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark!
‘What was that Thing that rose up out of the little aquarium?–a brief tale of horror.’
— Weird Tales, July 1936
Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark!
Ye little skelpie-limmer’s face!
I daur you try sic sportin’,
As seek the foul thief ony place,
For him to spae your fortune.
Nae doubt but ye may get a sight!
Great cause ye hae to fear it;
For mony a ane has gotten a fright,
And lived and died deleeret
On sic a night.
–Robert Burns (Hallowe’en)
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“Among the brackens, on the brae,
Between her and the moon,
The deil, or else an outler quey,
Gat up and gae a croon:
Poor Leezie’s heart maist lap the hool!
Near lav’rock-height she jumpit;
but mist a fit, and in the pool
Out-owre the lugs she plumpit,
Wi’ a plunge that night.”–Robert Burns (Halloween)