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Afternoon Reading: Summer Ghosts

Afternoon Reading: Summer Ghosts: Episode 2: The Queen of Craigielee

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Episode 2: The Queen of Craigielee

The Queen of Craigielee

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By Louise Welsh. Photographing the deserted tower block means going to its 30th floor.

By Louise Welsh. Photographing the deserted tower block means going to its 30th floor, which has some strange residents. Stories about ghosts in broad daylight.

"Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose death were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They were evil while alive..."

In this series of commissioned stories the aim is to present ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of day. Will something 'unexplained' be as scary in a light that is... well, reliable to the eye!

2. The Queen of Craigielee by Louise Welsh
Photographing the deserted tower block means going to its thirtieth floor, which isn't really the place to be...

Reader Tracy Wiles
Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Three writers tell stories about ghosts in broad daylight

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