BUCHAN, John The Watcher by the Threshold London, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1918
8vo. Original red cloth boards lettered in black; Yellow and grey dust jacket with advertisements of Blackwoods 'Popular Novels' on the blurb; pp. (5) 4-335; chips from top edge of front and lower panel as well as head and foot of spine; spine lightly faded; internally neat; otherwise a very good copy.
The Watcher by the Threshold is an assortment of short stories and novellas with supernatural themes mainly set in the Scottish Borders. An introductory passage of the collection prints an extract supposedly lifted from the writings of Donisarius of Padua, circa 1310: … The other sort dwell near the portrals of the House, and are every anxious and ill at ease that they might see something of the shadows" ….
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