THE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 10 (FINAL EPISODE): Taste The Blood Of The Gorbals Vampire
And so we come to the final episode of this dramatic tale inspired by the urban landscape and macabre folklore of my native southside of Gla...
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20 of 103 episodesTHE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 9: The Unquenchable Thirst of the Gorbals Vampire
Now that the Gorbals Vampire has told his story to our narrating protagonist, this strange pair perhaps better understand one another now. Y...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 8: Scars of the Gorbals Vampire
So the time has come for The Gorbals Vampire himself to tell the story of how he came to be a vampire in the first place, a story which link...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 7: The Hunger of the Gorbals Vampire
So an innocent young Glasgow boy has been conscripted into serving as "bait" to lure victims to the clutches of The Gorbals Vampire. But as...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 6: "Son" of the Gorbals Vampire
So in the last episode, we saw how our very Glaswegian Nosferatu was able to use our innocent protagonist as "bait" in his quest for human b...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 5: The Gorbals Vampire (at the) Circus
So our narrator has been abducted down into The Gorbals Vampire's underground lair, beneath Glasgow's Southern Necropolis graveyard, being t...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 4: Children Shouldn't Play With The Gorbals Vampire
So our narrator has fallen into the clutches of The Gorbals Vampire haunting Glasgow's Southern Necropolis. But his strange and disturbing a...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 3: The Gorbals Vampire Has Risen From The Grave
So our hapless young narrator has been trapped and abandoned by the bigger, rougher boys who accompanied him into the great rambling old gra...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE Part 2: Blood For The Gorbals Vampire
Here's the second part of this dark tale inspired by the genuine Glaswegian urban legend of an iron-toothed vampire haunting the great grave...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE part 1: Legend Of The Gorbals Vampire
And so, as they say in the creepiest horror movies, it begins... with the first episode of my epic tale inspired by an urban legend of my na...
THE GORBALS VAMPIRE: an introduction
Here's something a wee bit different: me on video (if you're on Spotify, sound only elsewhere) introducing an epic piece of storytelling whi...
THE PASSION OF TAM SHANTER Act 5 (Finale)
Here's the concluding episode of my dramatic contemporary version of Robert Burns's classic tale of Ayrshire witchcraft, essentially a recor...
THE PASSION OF TAM SHANTER Act 4
After the mysterious disappearance of Tam's wife, Kate, the scene is set for a charged confrontation between Tam and Morag Soutar, after whi...
THE PASSION OF TAM SHANTER Act 3
So... Tam's passion has got the better of him and he is now involved in a potentially dangerous relationship with Morag Soutar, meeting her...
THE PASSION OF TAM SHANTER Act Two
Here's the second part of this recording of the live show which I performed a couple of weeks ago here on Arran,a show which reinvents the c...
THE PASSION OF TAM SHANTER Act One
Just a week or so ago, I performed my show THE PASSION OF TAM SHANTER here at Whiting Bay on the Isle of Arran. Like most of my live shows,...
THE WITCH, THE WOLVES & THE WILD, WILD WOOD Part 4 (finale)
Final part of this very Scottish version of a Slavic folktale. Our heroine Ellie has contended with Grampa Guzzler, wild wolves, midges, dea...
THE WITCH, THE WOLVES & THE WILD, WILD WOOD Part 3
Well, those who've been listening to the first two parts of this story might be wondering... "Ok, we've had the wolves and the woods, but wh...
THE WITCH, THE WOLVES & THE WILD, WILD WOOD Part 2
Here's the second part of this tale, in which I relocate a Slavic "skazka" right here to the Isle of Arran, a tale I performed last year in...
THE WITCH, THE WOLVES & THE WILD, WILD WOOD Part 1
Here's the start of a four part story, actually inspired by Slavic folk tale, but relocated by me to the Isle of Arran (where I performed it...