The Watcher by the Threshold (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

The author of The Thirty-Nine Steps knew more than one way to chill a reader. His early forays into fantasy and the supernatural drew on Scotland’s rich legend and myth and carried into the rest of the world. Stories include “No Man’s Land,” “The Far Islands,” “The Outgoing of the Tide,” “Basilissa,” “The King of Ypres,” among others.