Marie Lamont

From last year's graphic novel, Identity The Archivist's Treasure, still free to download online.

Tell A Story Day - Grave Tales from the Gable

Undead members of Ard Amas John Joyce and Brian Heron
record some spooky tunes...

Staff and volunteers from Inverclyde Community Development Trust who attended our storytelling training earlier this year, have recorded a CD of stories and songs with all profits going to The Dutch Gable House. The CD is exclusively available at the Newark Products shop in the Gable.

You can check out more gifts from Newark Products online and hear more from Ard Amas on soundcloud.

In honour of Tell A Story Day, here's one of the spoken word tracks from the album...





I also popped into Inverclyde Radio for a wee blether about stories today. You can listen here.

It's nearly Halloween...where do I get my free Tales of the Oak Comic?

It being the Season of Witch and all that, you'll be after your free copy of local horror comic, Tales of the Oak, how else will you accurately terrify the hordes of wee Galoshans turning up at your door with your knowledge of authentic local folklore? And what of you even more unfortunate souls, who do not live in Greenock with easy access to the terrifying Dutch Gable House?

Well, for a short period of time, you should be able to find copies in Quarriers Village at The Three Sisters Bake, in Port Glasgow at 7 /12 John Wood Street, from this weekend at Glasgow's Steampunk Cafe and there will also be copies available at Greenock Waterfront Cinema All Night Horror Marathon.

If you are interested in having a few copies of Tales of the Oak to distribute at a Halloween Event, let us know... auld.dunrod@gmail.com

After that, well. the final free physical copies will be given out at The Dutch Gable House during November at Book Week Scotland Events...then...it will be too late...all too late...

And if you just can't get enough of scary Inverclyde stories, you may enjoy our fundraising ebook A Nip in The Air, available for kindle.

Wee Nasties - Now on Kindle

Our childrens book Wee Nasties, illustrated by Mhairi Robertson is now available via amazon for kindle and is also available via ibooks this week as well. The Heritage Lottery Funded book is still completely FREE to download and read and is absolutely ideal spooky reading for the winter months.

Prints of the characters from the book are available at the shop in The Dutch Gable House and Mhairi has lots of other artwork over on her own website. (You can also check out a rather nice Alice in Wonderland project we did on my other blog Stramashed)

Our original collection of folk tales Tales of the Oak, is also available via the kindle store, with all profits contributing to our heritage projects (and we have a few BELTERS lined up for next year)

Storytelling Training - Book Now

Oak Kindling - Tales of the Oak ebook

Our very first book Tales of the Oak (not the new comic version, the folktale collection) has just been published as an ebook for kindle on amazon. There's a wee sneaky peak at some material from our forthcoming ebooks in there as well.

As always, any profits are used to promote local heritage projects and programmes.

There are still a few physical copies remaining for sale in the Dutch Gable House, the book is now in its 4th edition, but we won't be reprinting it physically again, so from now on, get it on amazon.

Our children's book Wee Nasties is will shortly be available online from amazon and ibooks as well. And of course there are plenty more items in our lovely shop.

We still have copies of the Tales of the Oak comic which we'll be distributing throughout Halloween and the winter months, and look out for news of the event we'll be running as park of Scottish Book Week in November.

Tam O Shanter

Just had to share this, as suggested by my son, an animated version of Tam O Shanter as produced by Chris Ellingford. Excellent.

We're looking at animation just now, and this is spot on.
"Get it right up yae!"