A Queer Warld

Four Short Stories by John Buchan

Introduction by Robert Hume

John Buchan (1875–1940) is remembered today as the creator of Richard Hannay, gentleman spy and hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) and other adventures. Although his pacy thrillers remain Buchan’s best-known work, it was the short fiction located in the Borders countryside that first established him as a master of suspense and storytelling.

Introduced by Robert Hume, A Queer Warld collects four of Buchan’s short stories in one volume. In each, the landscape and the elements are powerful presences, driving the characters’ moral and spiritual dilemmas as they face their different dangers.

Contents
Introduction
The Herd of Standlan
On Cademuir Hill
At the Rising of the Waters
On Skule Skerry
Glossary