"The Watcher by the Threshold" by John Buchan is a collection of early novellas and stories, most with supernatural elements. "No Man's Land," "The Far Islands," "The Watcher by the Threshold," "The Outgoing of the Tide," "Fountainblue," "The Rime of True Thomas," "Basilissa," and "Divus Johnston" are the stories collected in this work, each of which shows travelers in far-off and far-fetched places.