Dorothy Kate Haynes, (1918 – December 1987) was a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
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horror and supernatural writer.
[Carol Anderson, ]Aileen Christianson
Aileen Christianson (8 August 1944 – 12 June 2020) was Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She was well known as a scholar of Scottish literature and women's writing, and as senior editor ...
, ''Scottish women's fiction, 1920s to 1960s: journeys into being''. Tuckwell Press, 2000. , (p.163) She frequently wrote articles for ''
The Scotsman
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'', and had much of her work published in
ghost
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and horror anthologies.
[ Mike Ashley , ''Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction''. Elm Tree Books, . (p. 91)]
Biography
Haynes was born in 1918 and spent her childhood with her twin brother Leonard, in Aberlour Orphanage,
Banffshire
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.
Later Haynes moved to Lanark, where she married John S. Gray (who was also a former Aberlour Orphanage resident — see: ''Haste Ye Back''). She had 4 children — Alison, Micheal, Leonard and Ian, with the first two dying from
cystic fibrosis
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.
Haynes worked extensively in support of
Girl Guides
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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.
Selected works
Novels
*''Winter's Traces'' (1947)
*''Robin Ritcie'' (1949)
*''Haste Ye Back'' (1973)
*''The Gay Goshawk'' (1992)
Collections
*''Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch'' (1949; expanded edition 1996)
*''Peacocks and Pagodas'' (1981)
Short stories
*Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch... (1947)
*The Derelict Track (1971)
*The Peculiar Case of Mrs Grimmond (1973)
*Scots Wha Ha'e (1975)
*Barleyriggs (1976)
*Up, Like a Good Girl (1976)
*King of the Fair (1979)
*Those Lights and Violins (1979)
*A Song at the Party (1980)
*The Boorees (1981)
*Help the Railway Mission (1981)
*A Horizon of Obelisks (1981)
*A Lady in the Night (1983)
*Oblige Me with a Loaf (1983)
*The 'Bean-Nighe'
*The Cure
*The Man Who Went Too Far
*Zelma, My Sister-In-Law
References
External links
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1918 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Scottish writers
Scottish horror writers
British ghost story writers
Women horror writers
20th-century British women writers