The Watcher by the Threshold: Something Older Than the Men on the Moors
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Five stories of the Scottish moors and the far places of the empire, in which something older than the men in them is still active: a remnant of the Picts in the hills, a dream of islands in the west, a devil in a Border house. Buchan wrote them before The Thirty-Nine Steps, and they are the seed of everything unsettling in his later work. The title story is his best piece of pure fear. Fifty-nine plates of mist, moor and mountain by painters from Friedrich to Böcklin carry the same older darkness the stories find in the hills.
Five stories of the Scottish moors and the far places of the empire, in which something older than the men in them is still active: a remnant of the Picts in the hills, a dream of islands in the west, a devil in a Border house. Buchan wrote them before The Thirty-Nine Steps, and they are the seed...
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John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, barrister and statesman born in Perth, a son of the manse. He worked in wartime intelligence and propaganda and ended his life as Governor General of Canada, ennobled as Lord Tweedsmuir. His works include The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, and John Macnab.
John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, barrister and statesman born in Perth, a son of the manse. He worked in wartime intelligence and propaganda and ended his life as Governor General of Canada, ennobled as Lord Tweedsmuir. His works include The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Stan...
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