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Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
"It must be admitted that the particular class of stories which turns on the marvellous possesses a stronger influence when told than when committed to print" - Walter Scott, The Tapestried Chamber. Storyteller & audio dramatist Marty Ross (Audible, BBC, Wireless Theatre, Big Finish, Kisses In The Dark) performs magical, mysterious and creepy tales as a spinoff from Ross's regular storytelling shows for ArranSound radio on the Scottish Isle of Arran, where Ross lives. Ross' work has been…
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- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
DRYAD Act 5 (finale): THE FOREST WILL FIGHT
Well, here we are with the final episode of this dramatic tale (originally performed last year, live in the Roots of Arran woodland as part of Scotland's Year…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
DRYAD Act Four: Blood Sacrifice
OK, we know by now what a Dryad is & what the stakes are in the fight to save our destroy the ancient forest. Which means the scene is set for the dramatic…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
DRYAD Act 3: A Plethora Of Dryads (with love & thanks to Sylvia Plath!)
The third act of this dramatic narrative, originally performed last year in an actual ancient woodland here on the Isle of Arran as part of Scotland's Year Of…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
DRYAD Act Two: Godzilla Meets The Forest
The second part of my 5 part exercise in eco-Gothic, as previously performed in the ancient woodland of the Isle of Arran, as part of Scotland's Year Of…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
DRYAD Act One - A Familiar Phantom
Here's the first episode (of five) of an audio fiction version of one of the main stories I performed live this summer in the ancient woodland cared for by…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST Episode Four of Four
Here's the dramatic conclusion of this four part ghostly thriller set here on the Isle of Arran back in Victorian times. Homeless Mary's dream come true of…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST Episode Three of Four
Continuing this repeat performance for my Victorian ghost story, set here on the Isle of Arran. Homeless Mary has accepted an uncommon offer of hospitality in…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST Episode Two of Four
Continuing this repeat performance of my Victorian ghost story set, by this stage in the tale, on snowy Arran. Homeless Mary has accepted an offer of shelter…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST - Episode One of Four
Haven't had the chance to create any new episodes - sorry - I'm up to my neck in work as a writer for Audible, dramatizing Charles Dickens for exec producer…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
21st CENTURY POE: FALLING FOR THE USHERS Ep. 3 - REVENANT
And here it is, the dramatic and downright horrific final episode of my three part contemporary Glaswegian version of a classic tale by Edgar Allan Poe. Our…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
21st CENTURY POE: FALLING FOR THE USHERS Ep. 2: Romance - ?
Here's episode 2 of my three part reimagining of a classic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, shifting the setting to the modern art scene in contemporary Glasgow. This…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
21st CENTURY POE: FALLING FOR THE USHERS Episode 1: REUNION
Here's a second go round for my radically modernized version of a classic tale by Edgar Allan Poe - reimagining it in the modern art scene of contemporary…
Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.THE KIRKYARD DEVIL
This time round I translate a classic Russian folk tale into a very Scottish idiom - as a little gesture of my love for Russian culture at a time when we are…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
A BRIDE FOR A BARE NAKED MAN
This story is improvised from one of the tales in J. F. Campbell's classic collection West Highland Tales, our Scottish equivalent of The Brothers Grimm, a…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE SELKIE BRIDE
As I explain in the intro, I was out walking the dog on the beach and came across a whole cluster of the seals who've taken up residence in the bay here…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST Episode 4 - The Dead In The Depths
Just in time for Hogmanay - the final episode of this seasonal ghost story, in which we finally get to hear the real story of what happened three years before…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST - Episode 3 - The Woman In The Picture
In our previous two episodes, homeless Mary has been offered shelter for the Christmas season in the snowbound Arran home of good Samaritan Dr. Craigie. But…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST - Episode 2: The Snowman & The Man In The Snow
Continuing our Christmas chiller in the classic Victorian Gothic manner. Homeless Mary has been offered shelter in Doctor Ewan Craigie's isolated house on the…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST Episode 1 - The Lost Soul & The Samaritan's Scalpel
It's the time-hallowed season for ghost stories - so here's the first part of a seasonal, snowbound chiller, in the grand tradition of Dickens & M.R. James…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
A SHAGGY BULL STORY Part 2 (of 2): Beyond The Glass Mountain
Concluding part of this rough and tumble, improvised, unscripted performance of a classic Scottish fairy tale, a sort of Beauty-and-the-Beast variant. The…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
A SHAGGY BULL STORY Part 1 - THE MOOING WOOING
Here's another of my improvised, unscripted fairy tale performances, as first heard on my ArranSound radio show here on the Isle of Arran earlier this year, a…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Dances With Bogles - or The Heather Wine Hangover
To wind up the stories from what was my first "season" as storyteller on ArranSound radio here on the Isle of Arran, here's a light-hearted (though not…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE UNBURYING Episode 3 of 3: The Hard Shadow
Final episode of this spine chilling tale which transports a traditional Japanese Kwaidan to the shores of the Isle of Arran, producing a very Scottish tale of…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE UNBURYING Episode 2 0f 3: Escape Into The Night
Continuing a very eerie tale which relocates a Japanese Kwaidan to right here on the Isle of Arran. Alec has stumbled upon the household of the Reverend Galt…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
THE UNBURYING Episode 1 of 3 - The Raider of Graves
Here's a spooky tale which began life, as I explain in the intro, as a Japanese folk tale - but not being Japanese I've transposed the tale, lock, stock and…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The Ballad Of The Driftwood Mermaid - Episode 6 of 6 - Kiss The Sea, Breathe The Sea, Be The Sea....
Final episode of this intense and uncanny drama. Can Doug and Sarah escape the haunted shipwreck - or will they be condemned forever more to... "Kiss The…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The Ballad Of The Driftwood Mermaid - Episode 5 of 6 - Descent into the Haunted Ships
Okay - things have got pretty darned serious & scary in our dramatic tale of the Scottish south west coast. Doug, with the help of old Pete, has to do what he…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The Ballad Of The Driftwood Mermaid - Episode 4 of 6 - Nightmare
Doug has rescued the unconscious Sarah from the surf down on the beach, carrying her home. A happy ending? Oh, I don't think it's going to be quite that…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The Ballad Of The Driftwood Mermaid - Episode 3 of 6 - The Legend of the Haunted Ships
So, dream home or not, things are not going too smoothly between Doug and Sarah. She has run out into the night and had a nocturnal encounter on the beach with…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The Ballad Of The Driftwood Mermaid - Episode 2 of 6: The Dream, Broken
Continuing this very contemporary version of a classic folk tale of Scotland's south west coast. Doug and Sarah have moved into their dream home on the…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The Ballad Of The Driftwood Mermaid - Episode 1 of 6: A Dream House
Here's a story inspired by a classic folk tale of the south west coast of Scotland, but given a very contemporary dramatization. Sarah & Doug have moved to…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Never Hook A Merrow
Been slightly remiss with these stories (originally broadcast on my show Thursdays and Sundays @8pm on ArranSound radio) in not yet presenting a tale of the…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
21st CENTURY POE: Falling For The Ushers part 3/3: Revenant
The dramatic conclusion to my radical contemporary (and very Scottish, indeed very Glaswegian) re-imagining of a classic tale by local Ayrshire boy (by…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
21st CENTURY POE: Falling For The Ushers part 2/3: Romance
Continuing my very contemporary update of a classic tale by local Ayrshire boy (well, by fostering at least - see intro to the first episode) Edgar Allan Poe…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
21st CENTURY POE: Falling For The Ushers part 1/3: Reunion
This story began life as one of three very radical, very contemporary, very Glaswegian updates of classic tales by Edgar Allan Poe (who, as the introduction…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Wild Hearts, Warm Hearts
Here's a rather romantic story which I performed on ArranSound radio for Valentine's Day, a tale of rather lycanthropic romance set in Lochranza at the north…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The White Stag - an Arran ghost story
Back in time to my very first show for ArranSound radio here on the Isle of Arran, as broadcast for Halloween 2020, a ghost story inspired by our local legend…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The Lost Bride & The Bogle's Bridge Episode 2/2
Last time round, a tale of love mysteriously lost. This time - love regained? Well, only after a fierce battle with the Bogle of Glen Rosa! (As originally…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
The Lost Bride & The Bogle's Bridge Episode 1/2
A magic tale of love lost and found - though not without a lot of sometimes scary dangers inbetween. This story was originally performed on my storytelling…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Dance Beneath A Scarlet Moon - a dark Scottish fairy tale - Episode 7/7: The Lair Of The Baobhan Sith
And now the climax of our dark adult fairy tale, as Heather gains entry to the secret kingdom of our Baobhan Sith, Scathach or Shona, buried deep within the…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Dance Beneath A Scarlet Moon - a dark Scottish fairy tale - Episode 6/7: The Wolf In The Snow
Heather now knows the dangerous journey she must begin to save the lost soul of her husband James, a journey into the sheerest wintery mountainscapes of the…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Dance Beneath A Scarlet Moon - a dark Scottish fairy tale - Episode 5/7: A Bloody Legend
After narrowly surviving the horrors of the night of the scarlet moon, Heather learns more about the force she is confronted with, the power of the…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Dance Beneath A Scarlet Moon - a dark Scottish fairy tale - Episode 4/7: A Dance And A Death
And now the moment has come for the mysterious Shona to lead James out into a sensuous and dangerous and haunted dance beneath a snowy scarlet moon. Heather…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Dance Beneath A Scarlet Moon - a dark Scottish fairy tale - Episode 3/7: At The Giant's Graves
The mysterious Shona has come between honeymooning couple James and Heather. Or has she? The next morning, all seems back to normal as James & Heather set out…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Dance Beneath A Scarlet Moon - a dark Scottish fairy tale - Episode 2/7: A Troubled Honeymoon
Continuing with this dark fairy tale set on the Island of Arran (and originally performed & broadcast on my storytelling show Winters Tales on ArranSound…
- Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Dance Beneath A Scarlet Moon - a dark Scottish fairy tale - Episode 1/7: The Fairy Glen
The first episode of a very dark and grown up Scottish fairy tale, set on the Isle of Arran. James & Heather arrive on the island for their honeymoon, but an…