Haste Ye Back
By Dorothy K. Haynes
Edited by Craig Lamont
Paperback, 240 pages
Association for Scottish Literature, March 2024
Price £14.95
ISBN: 9781906841591
First published in 1973, Haste Ye Back is a lively and intimate portrayal of Aberlour Orphanage in Banffshire, where Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) spent four formative years in her childhood. Best known as a writer of gothic and supernatural fiction, here Haynes’s vivid imagination brings to life the residents, caretakers and stories of the institution that irrevocably shaped her.
In this new edition, the complete text of Haste Ye Back is reprinted alongside additional material by Haynes: three previously unpublished reminiscences on Aberlour Orphanage, and ‘The Head’, the winner of the 1947 Tom-Gallon Trust Award and a fine example of the author’s haunting short fiction. Opening with a fresh and considered look at Haynes’s life and work, this volume re-introduces a long-neglected writer of striking originality.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Texts
Haste Ye Back (1973)
Appendix
Letter to Miss McKee (1935)
‘The New Girl’ (1944)
‘Elgin and The Pond’ (1944)
‘Impressions of an Old Girl’ (undated)
‘The Head’ (1945)
Endnotes
Bibliography
Cover image: ‘Blue Flax’, by Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933). Oil on canvas, 1927.
© CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.
Cover design: Mark Blackadder