 Shipmasters would see the lights while travelling in darkness, and consider that they had reached a safe haven, only to find that they had been guided on to rocks, where wrecking parties awaited for plunder.The castle is thought to have inspired Sir Walter Scott's description of the fictional "Wolf's Crag", which features in his 1819 novel "The Bride of Lammermoor".Fast Castle and Logan of Restalrig both appear in Nigel Tranter's trilogy of historical novels, "The Master of Gray" series.