Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/715Celebrated Scottish author John Buchan, creator of the Richard Hannay series of thrillers (including The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle) brings light this wonderfully diverse collection of short stories and poetry showcasing Buchan's skill at both satire and the weird. This book was described in a review by The Athenaeum upon its release as showing "a marked leaning towards the mysterious and bizarre" and is bursting with "considerable imagination. Join us for a jaunt into the fantastical and otherworldly realm of John Buchan's short fiction! (Summary by Ben Tucker)
The Green Glen and The Wise Years found at this source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.49015001247569&view=1up&seq=240
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Genres for the project: Short Stories/Single Author Collections; Fantastic Fiction/Horror & Supernatural Fiction; Poetry/Single author
Keywords that describe the book: satire, poetry, fantasy, weird, Scottish, mysterious
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