John Buchan‘s name will forever be associated with the classic thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps but he originally regarded himself as a short story writer and a 1912 profile in The Bookman described him as ‘probably the best modern exponent of the short story’. His first published work, written while he was a student, were stories which appeared in magazines as varied as Blackwood’s and The Yellow Book and three of his first eight books were short story collections.
