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Reviews of selected Buchan works are posted after each linked title: click on that title and read the review to find out just what it's about. We always need reviews, so if you would like to contribute a review of a title not yet reviewed, or add one on a title about which you particularly want to say something, email your text to reviews@johnbuchansociety.co.uk

Date Title Publisher / first published in Subsequent short story collection
October 1894 'Sentimental Travelling' Macmillan's Magazine 70 (420) 445-51 Scholar Gypsies (1896)
December 1894 'On Cademuir Hill' Glasgow University Magazine 7(7) 122-4
September 1895 'Night On The Heather' Glasgow University Magazine 7(7) 122-4 Scholar Gypsies (1896)
October 1895 Sir Quixote of the Moors T. Fisher Unwin
1886 Musa Piscatrix (fishing poems and songs) The Yellow Book 8, 143-58
January 1896 'A Captain of Salvation' The Yellow Book 8, 143-58
April 1896 'A Journey of Little Profit' The Yellow Book 9, 189-201 Grey Weather (1899)
May 1896 'Politics and the Mayfly' Chambers' Journal 13 (645) 301-4 Grey Weather (1899)
September 1896 'Afternoon' Scholar Gypsies
September 1896 'An Individualist' Scholar Gypsies
January 1897 'At The Article of Death' The Yellow Book 12, 273-80 Grey Weather (1899)
March 1897 'At The Rising of the Waters' Chambers' Journal 14 (689) 173-6 Grey Weather (1899)
June 1897 'Prester John' Chambers' Journal 14 (701) 362-5 Grey Weather (1899)
July 1897 'The Song of the Moor' / 'The Moor Song' Macmillan's Magazine 76 (453) 215-20 Grey Weather (1899)
4 December 1897 John Burnet of Barns Chambers's Journal, Sixth Series 1 (1)
February 1898 'A Reputation' Macmillan's Magazine 77 (460) 294-300 Grey Weather (1899)
June 1898 John Burnet of Barns John Lane
January 1899 'No-Man's Land' Blackwood's Magazine 165 (999) 1-36 The Watcher by the Threshold (1901)
March 1899 'The Earlier Affection' Grey Weather
March 1899 'The Black Fishers' Grey Weather
March 1899 'Summer Weather' Grey Weather
March 1899 'The Oasis In The Snow' Grey Weather
March 1899 'The Herd of Standlan' Grey Weather
March 1899 'Streams of Water in the South' Grey Weather
March 1899 'Comedy in the Full Moon' Grey Weather
September 1899 A Lost Lady Of Old Years John Lane
November 1899 'The Far Islands' Blackwood's Magazine 166 (1009) 604-19 The Watcher by the Threshold (1901)
September 1900 The Half-Hearted Good Words Vol XLI - 1 Isbister
December 1900 'The Watcher By The Threshold' Blackwood's Magazine 168 (1022) 817-45 The Watcher by the Threshold (1901)
August 1901 'Fountainblue' Blackwood's Magazine 170 (1030) 218-42 The Watcher by the Threshold (1901)
January 1902 'The Outgoing of the Tide' The Atlantic Monthly 89 (1030) 218-42 The Watcher by the Threshold (1901)
January 1906 'The Kings of Orion' Blackwood's Magazine 179 (1083) 101-17 The Moon Endureth (1912)
November 1906 A Lodge in the Wilderness Blackwood & Sons
February 1909 'The Company of the Marjolaine' Blackwood's Magazine 185 (1120)151-70 The Moon Endureth (1912)
February 1910 'A Lucid Interval' Blackwood's Magazine 187 (1133) 165-86 The Moon Endureth (1912)
April-Sept 1910 Prester John 'The Black General' The Captain (23) 6 issues
August 1910 Prester John Nelson's
January 1911 'The Lemnian' Blackwood's Magazine 189 (1143) 1-13 The Moon Endureth (1912)
May 1911 'Space' Blackwood's Magazine 189 (1147) 600-13 The Moon Endureth (1912)
January 1912 'The Green Glen' Blackwood's Magazine 191 (1155) 39-56 The Moon Endureth (1912)
April 1912 'The Riding of Ninemileburn' Blackwood's Magazine 191 (1158) 486-94 The Moon Endureth (1912)
April 1912 'The Grove of Ashtaroth' The Moon Endureth
December 1913 'Divus Johnston' The Golden Hynde 1, 3-11 The Runagates Club
December 1913 The Power-House Blackwood's Magazine, 194 (1178), 715-60 Hodder & Stoughton
April 1914 'Basilissa' Blackwood's Magazine, 195 (1182), 477-90
June-July 1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps The All-Story Weekly, 45 (52); 46 (1) Hodder & Stoughton
July 1915 Salute to Adventurers Nelson's
December 1915 'The King of Ypres' The Illustrated London News
July-November 1916 Greenmantle Land and Water, 62 (2826); 68 (2844) Hodder & Stoughton
1917 Poems, Scots and English
September 1918 'The King of Ypres' The Watcher by the Threshold [US]
January-February1919 Mr Standfast The Popular Magazine, 51 (2) - (5) Hodder & Stoughton
January 1920 'Fullcircle' Blackwood's Magazine, 207 (1251), 70-82 The Runagates Club
October 1920-1921 'The Path of a King' Outward Bound, 1 (1) - (12), 2 (1) as 'The Path of the King' Hodder & Stoughton
August-September 1921 Huntingtower The Popular Magazine, 61 (3) & (4) Hodder & Stoughton
1921/ 1923 'Watches of the Night The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal under pseudonym 'Beta Minus'
August 1923 Midwinter Hodder & Stoughton
April 1924 The Three Hostages The London Graphic, 109 (2836) - 110 (2854) Hodder & Stoughton
December 1924-July 1925 John MacNab Chambers' Journal, 15 (733) - (763) Hodder & Stoughton
May-June 1926 'The Goddess from the Shades' The Popular Magazine, 80 (2) - (5) as 'The Dancing Floor' Hodder & Stoughton
1926 Modern Short Stories (editor)
1926 'The Shut Door' The Boy's All-round Book
January-July 1927 Witch Wood The British Weekly, 81 (2099) - 82 (2125)
September 1927 'The Green Wildebeeste' London Pall Mall Magazine, 1 (5), 2-12 The Runagates Club
September 1927 The Magic Walking Stick Sails of Gold [annual]
October 1927 'The Loathly Opposite' London Pall Mall Magazine, 1 (6), 19-25 The Runagates Club
'The Post' Unpublished version of 'The Loathly Opposite'
November 1927 'Ships of Tarshish' London Pall Mall Magazine, 2 (1), 80-88 as 'Ship to Tarshish' The Runagates Club
December 1927 'Tendebant Manus' London Pall Mall Magazine, 2 (2), 14-21 The Runagates Club
1926 'Nemesis' The Boy's All-round Book
January 1928 'The Last Crusade' London Pall Mall Magazine, 2 (3), 70-77 The Runagates Club
February 1928 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' London Pall Mall Magazine, 2 (4), 38-44 The Runagates Club
March 1928 'The Wind in the Portico' London Pall Mall Magazine, 2 (5), 23-34 The Runagates Club
April 1928 'Human Quarry' London Pall Mall Magazine,2 (6), 66-82 as 'The Frying-Pan & the Fire' The Runagates Club
May 1928 'Skule Skerry' London Pall Mall Magazine, 3 (1), 46-53 The Runagates Club
July 1928 'Dr Lartius' The Runagates Club
September 1929 The Courts of the Morning Hodder & Stoughton
July 1930 Castle Gay Hodder & Stoughton
July 1931 The Blanket of the Dark Hodder & Stoughton
July 1932 The Gap in the Curtain Hodder & Stoughton
Oct 1932 The Magic Walking-Stick Hodder & Stoughton
November 1932 'The Strange Adventure of Mr Andrew Hawthorne' The Silver Ship, 173-82
July 1933 A Prince of the Captivity Hodder & Stoughton
July 1933 'Ho! The Merry Masons' 'Help Yourself' Annual, 19-26
1934 Six Stories from Shakespeare (contributor)
June 1934 The Free Fishers Hodder & Stoughton
July 1935 The House of the Four Winds Hodder & Stoughton
July 1936 The Island of Sheep Hodder & Stoughton
April 1941 Sick Heart River Hodder & Stoughton
November 1941 The Long Traverse Hodder & Stoughton

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