title: Devil's Gallop: Trips Into Scotland's Dark and Bloody Past
author:  Douglas Skelton 
description: Scotland is a country with a dark and bloody history, filled with characters who thought nothing of resorting to torture, murder, and treachery. More than a few of its ancient sites are steeped in tales of skullduggery and evil doings&#8212;castles and cairns, battle and burial grounds&#8212;each with a story to tell. Now, in <B>Devil&#8217;s Gallop,</B> Douglas Skelton bring Scotland&#8217;s dark past vividly to life. From dragons to dragoons, warlocks to warfare, he irreverently mixes fact with legend. Within these pages, you&#8217;ll find murderous monarchs, wicked witches, and nasty nobles. There are tales of cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, religious fervor that led to bloody rebellion, and murder, abduction and villainy. Laced with a liberal dose of gallows humor, <B>Devil&#8217;s Gallop</B> is an engrossing collection of ghastly tales.
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  # The Black Hole of Glenranald
  
  
  ### E.W. Hornung
  
  
  
  
  
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  IT was coming up the Murrumbidgee that Fergus Carrick first heard the name of
  Stingaree. With the cautious enterprise of his race, the young gentleman had
  booked steerage on a river steamer whose solitary passenger he proved to be;
  accordingly he was not only permitted to sleep on the saloon settee at nights,
  but graciously bidden to the captain's board by day. It was there that Fergus
  Carrick encouraged tales of the bushrangers as the one cleanly topic familiar
  in the mouth of the elderly engineer who completed the party. And it seemed
  that the knighthood of the up-country road had been an extinct order from the
  extirpation of the Kellys to the appearance of this same Stingaree, who was
  report