The Record of the Western Marches. Published under the auspices of the Dumfriesshire and Golloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society (Volume I) An introduction to the history of Dumfries

Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. He has published Screenwriting (Bloomsbury, 2009), Directing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (Routledge, 2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition (2023). He is co-editing the Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2023) and Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2024).