author
Patrick Buchan
1814–1881
A 19th-century Scottish writer whose surviving books mix folklore, religion, and a clear love of old traditions. His work offers a glimpse of the Victorian-era fascination with the supernatural and the cultural memory of Scotland.
1 Audiobook
Legends of the North: The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride
by Patrick Buchan
About the author
Little biographical information about this author was easy to confirm, but the record of his books is clear: Patrick Buchan lived from 1814 to 1881 and published works including The Genesis of the Angels and the Story of Their Early Homes (1868) and Legends of the North: The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride (1873).
Those titles show the range of his interests. One turns to religious and imaginative speculation, while the other draws on Scottish legend and fairy lore, suggesting a writer interested in belief, storytelling, and the older imaginative traditions of the North.
Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, it is safest to remember him through the books themselves: unusual Victorian works that preserve folklore, wonder, and a distinctive taste for mythic subjects.