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...
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Magic Island Storytelling Theatre: Strange Tales From The Isle Of Arran: Ghost & fairy tales & more.
Storyteller & audio dramatist Marty Ross (BBC, Audible, Wireless Theatre, Big Finish, Kisses In The Dark podcast) presents and performs a series of magical, mysterious and sometimes creepy t...
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20 of 97 episodesTHE 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...
THE GHOSTLY BRIDAL
Was on the mainland (or "the big island" as we say here on Arran) last week and picked up yet another book of Scottish folk tales. This one...
THE MERMAID'S VENGEANCE
Here's a little blast from the past. A while back, I posted my version of a traditional folktale which I gave the title A Kiss Of Salt. This...
WILD KATY & THE LIVING DEAD Act 4 (conclusion)
Well, here it is - after 4 (not the previously mentioned 3) episodes: the dramatic, fantastical conclusion to this wild, improvised reworkin...
WILD KATY & THE LIVING DEAD Act 3
I think I said, in my intro to the first part of this story, that this was going to be a three-parter. Such is the nature of improvised, uns...
WILD KATY & THE LIVING DEAD Act 2
Here's the latest part of this freely improvised story based on an old European folk tale. Our heroine Wild Katy has come upon a skeletal un...
WILD KATY & THE LIVING DEAD Act 1
Here's the first part of another of my wild, weyward and very Scottish reinventions of a classic European folk tale, featuring an unapolgeti...