The Watcher by the Threshold (Paperback)

from jen.e.moore

A collection of tales about Scotland, some eerie, some nicely mythological, and some just plain moralistic. I quite enjoyed "No-Man's Land," if only for its incredibly stereotypical treatment of its subject, and "The Watcher By the Threshold" is a nicely creepy story of possession with a somewhat...

from MyopicBookworm

From the dedication: "It is of the back-world of Scotland that I write, the land behind the mist and over the seven bens, a place hard of access for the foot-passenger but easy for the maker of stories". Of the five stories in this volume, the first four fall broadly into the category of supernat...