• Who needs advice?

    Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.

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Walter Scott’s Seven Deadly Tales

by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to the supernatural, the eerie, and the macabre. Some of the novels even include extractable tales of terror: ‘The Fortunes of…