To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the ghost story contest involving Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and John Polidori that led to the creation of The Vampyre and the Frankenstein myth at the Villa Diodati, the Scottish Storytelling Centre is running a ghost story competition.
The six winning stories will be told at the National Library of Scotland on Halloween as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. The stories will be filmed as they are told.
Entries are invited of original ghost stories up to 1,200 that have been written to be read aloud. Writers do not have to be based in Scotland to enter.