The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan
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"The Watcher by the Threshold" by John Buchan is a collection of supernatural tales published in 1902. Set primarily in the Scottish landscape, these stories blend ancient folklore with unsettling encounters. Characters discover hidden races in remote hills, pursue mystical islands beyond the western seas, and confront shadowy presences that haunt the threshold between reason and madness. Buchan weaves scholarly curiosity with creeping dread, exploring what happens when modern men stumble upon
forces older and darker than civilization itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Buchan, John, 1875-1940 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Watcher by the Threshold |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watcher_by_the_Threshold,_and_other_tales |
| Contents | No-man's land -- The far islands -- The watcher by the threshold -- The outgoing of the tide -- The rime of True Thomas -- Basilissa -- Divus Johnston -- The king of Ypres. |
| Credits |
Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Scotland -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 57402 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-57402-8 |
| Release Date | Jun 26, 2018 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 822 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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