For as long as I can remember, I have had a fascination with cemeteries – be it their peaceful, yet morbid exteriors or the fact that I'll probably wind up in one someday. I never overlook an ...

Scotland in the 1600s was riven by religious conflict. In addition to the Catholic-Protestant divide that was tearing its way through Europe, Covenanters, protestants who resisted the King's control ...

"I've lived in Edinburgh most of my life," says fantasy novelist Brian Ruckley, author of The Edinburgh Dead. "So I'm very familiar with all the dark corners of the city's history." One of Edinburgh's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is part of a new FT Globetrotter series on Spooky Cities. It is also part of FT Globetrotter’s ...

Greyfriars Kirkyard is one of the continent’s most famous cemeteries, and it’s all because of two small things: a ghost and a dog. Considered by many to be amongst the world’s most haunted locations, ...