Where all the treasured tales lie till the tongue of the teller makes them live!

My storytelling repertoire divides roughly into four areas:

• Scottish Fairy Tales & Folklore

• Reminiscences - taken from interviews with ordinary folk who've shared weird, wonderful and downright hilarious tales with me

• World Tales - stories with origins from the wide world

• Horror Tales - crime, murder, revenge, all sorts of blood-chilling stories, some true, some fantastical

Stories like - 

Jack and the Devil's Auntie - One of Stanley's riddling tales featuring the perennial hero, Jack

Jack and the Skinny Coo - another of Stanley's favourites, appearance vs reality

Grimm's Fairy Tales - One Eye, Two Eyes and Three Eyes; Many-Pelts; Shiver & Shake;

The Mason's Mark - a true tale of superstition

The Host of the Dead - a true tale from the Isle of Barra

James Stephen, Lost at Sea - a family reminisence of my ancestor

The Man Who Made Trees Blossom - a Japanese tale of early recycling!

How Cuchulain Got His Name - the epic beginnings of the Hound of Ulster

Wayland the Smith - a Norse tale of murder and revenge

The Murder of Anne Forbes - a true story about a local crime from the 1860s

The Crofter's Clever Daughter - a Gaelic tale from Cape Breton with riddles and a very wise girl!

The Mistletoe Bough - the story of the tragic ballad

The Tale of Downie's Slaughter - a mystery from the early days of Aberdeen's Kings' College

The Companion - a tale of revenge which turns into one of redemption

Fiddler's Well - a tale of healing and prophetic dreams from the Black Isle and the memory of local folklorist, Hugh Miller

The Origin of Midges - where did those little pests come from?

The Tattie Bogle - another Stanley story; beware of destroying your scarecrow!

The Templar Knight and the Saracen Maid - a story with two versions, one is not so virtuous!

The Maiden Stone - how the symbol stone at the foot of Bennachie came to be

The Master Smith/Jack-o-Lantern - beware boasting, it will get you no-where!

Auld Craobhie and the Dancing Trees - a story from the Travellers on the Auld Road of Lumphanan

The Wizard of the North's Troosers - thieves never prosper, especially where a magician's breeks are concerned!

The World's Greatest Woodcarver - a dream-like story with a dream-like origin similar to Tam Lin

Tales of Holy Water and Burkers - a selection of stories that begin with the protective ritual of Holy Water, and end with the Wicked Laird of Skene!

... and there are many more where they came from!!