Robin Ritchie

by Dorothy K. Haynes

An unusual example of early weird fiction and psychological horror by Haynes, which tells the story of a young girl in rural Scotland who frequently wanders off at night by herself and returns with stories of wild riders who sweep her away into the dark. Her parents are mortified (as is probably right) and seek to cure their daughter of her hallucinations. But is she telling the truth?

Genres: Horror

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1949

About the author

Dorothy K. Haynes spent her childhood with her twin brother Leonard, in Aberlour Orphanage, Banffshire. Later she moved to Lanark, where she married John S. Gray (who was also a former Aberlour Orphanage resident). She had 4 children - Alison, Micheal, Leonard and Ian, with the first two dying from cystic fibrosis.

Haynes worked extensively in support of Girl Guides movement and remained involved with Aberlour Orphanage until its closure. She published the autobiographical novel Haste Ye Back in 1973 in memory of her time there.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer, and died in December 1987.

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