Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Arnold Böcklin, Odilon Redon and John Atkinson Grimshaw. Five stories of the Scottish moors and the far places of the empire, in which something older than the men in them is still active: a remnant of the Picts in the hills, a dream of islands in the west, a devil in a Border house. Buchan wrote them before The Thirty-Nine Steps, and they are the seed of everything unsettling in his later work. The title story is his best piece of pure fear. Fifty-nine plates of mist, moor and mountain by painters from Friedrich to Böcklin carry the same older darkness the stories find in the hills.