Dorothy Kate Haynes, was a Scottish

Scotland

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 horror/supernatural writer. She frequently wrote articles for The Scotsman

The Scotsman

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, and had much of her work published in horror anthologies.

Biography

Haynes was born in 1918 and spent her childhood with her twin brother Leonard, in Aberlour Orphanage, Banffshire

Banffshire

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, later moving to Lanark, where she married John S. Gray (who was also a former Aberlour Orphanage resident - see: Haste Ye Back). She had 4 children - Alison, Micheal, Leonard and Ian, with the first two dying from cystic fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis

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.

Haynes worked extensively in support of Girl Guides

Girlguiding UK

Girlguiding UK is the national Guiding organisation of the United Kingdom. Guiding began in the UK in 1910 after Robert Baden-Powell asked his sister Agnes to start a group especially for girls that would be run along similar lines to Scouting for Boys. The Guide Association was a founder member of...

movement and remained involved with Aberlour Orphanage until its closure. She published the autobiographical novel Haste Ye Back in 1973 in memory of her time there.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer, and died in December 1987.

Short stories

• Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch... (1947)
• The Derelict Track (1971)
• The Peculiar Case of Mrs Grimmond (1973)
• Scots Wha Ha'e (1975)
• Barleyriggs (1976)
• Up, Like a Good Girl (1976)
• King of the Fair (1979)
• Those Lights and Violins (1979)
• A Song at the Party (1980)
• The Boorees (1981)
• Help the Railway Mission (1981)
• A Horizon of Obelisks (1981)
• A Lady in the Night (1983)
• Oblige Me with a Loaf (1983)
• The 'Bean-Nighe'
• The Cure
• The Man Who Went Too Far
• Zelma, My Sister-In-Law

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