The Watcher by the Threshold

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Arnold Böcklin, Odilon Redon and John Atkinson Grimshaw. 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 t...