Buchan, John

26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940

a. k. a. Baron Tweedsmuir, Buchan was a lawyer, politician, writer, businessman (director of Reuter's, the renowned British news servie) and publisher, best known now (in literary circles, that is) as author of The 39 Steps, an espionage novel filmed 3 times, once by Alfred Hitchcock.

Sites:
John Buchan
Biographical overview. [Owen Dudley Edwards; Scottish Libraries Across the Internet]
John Buchan Society
Includes a "potted biography" (a brief, not a drunken one) and bibliography as well as other resources.
Biographical note [Writing Scotland; BBC]
Brief biographical note [Literature and Place]
Biographical note [Andrew Crumey, Scottish Writers on the Internet]
Biographical note
At the official website for Canada's Governor-General — when I said Buchan was a politician, I wasn't talking local school board....
Biographical note [Rise and Fall of the House of Blackwood's]
Biographical note [Wikipedia]
Biographical note [Author's Calendar]
Biographical note
Includes partial bibliography. [Petri Liukkonen; LitWeb.net]
Brief biographical note [Penguin UK]
Brief biographical note
from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [Bartleby.com]
Brief biographical note [Gazeteer for Scotland]
John Buchan
Supernaturalist bibliography with book cover images. [Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Tartarus Press]
Bibliography [Fantastic Fiction]
Portraits [National Portrait Gallery]
Photo of Buchan
Photo of Buchan
  


Etexts:
The Dancing Floor
No etext available, apparently, but this novel of pagan ritual and weird coincidence is available in hardcopy:
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies contains the 5 following supernaturalist tales. It's a Project Gutenberg etext (396K), so use your browser's "Find" function to locate these.
"The Green Glen"
"The Grove of Ashtaroth"
"A Lucid Interval"
"The Rime of True Thomas"
"Space"
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"The Outgoing of the Tide"
- HorrorMasters (PDF)
"The Watcher by the Threshold"
- at HorrorMasters (PDF)


Books:
One of Buchan's "metaphysical" novels, The Gap in the Curtain involves complex notions of time, knowledge — and foreknowledge. E. F. Bleiler regards it as "Superior to most of Buchan's adventure thrillers."


Essays and Reviews:
John Buchan: Man of Letters or Man of Affairs?" [Donald MacKenzie, U of Glasgow]
Overview of Buchan's life and literary accomplishments.
"“Realism coloured by poetry”: Rereading John Buchan" by Roger Kimball. [New Criterion]
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"John Buchan."