The watchers by the threshold - John Buchan

This is the first ever complete collection of all Buchan's shorter
Scottish fiction. Set largely in his beloved Borders, these stories and
novellas show the full range and depth of Buchan's writing. Featuring
shepherds, poachers, gamekeepers and drovers, they are worlds away from
the tales of aristocratic adventure with which he is so often
associated.Shot through with characters and places he returned to in his
full-length fiction, the Buchan that emerges from this collection is a
very different and much more complex writer than he is often held to be.