Runagates Club (Buchan)

Author: John Buchan

ISBN: 9781999828011

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

John Buchan (1875-1940), author of over 100 books including The Thirty-Nine Steps, was a stealth writer of supernatural and Weird fiction. Twelve stories comprise his last collection of short stories, a classic of British interwar short fiction written from 1913 to 1927. What makes The Runagates Club special is that Buchan designed it as a showcase to bring together the best of his magazine fiction, repurposing these stories with new beginnings, and framing them as after-dinner stories told over the port in a late 1920s private gentleman's dining-club.