The other landscape

A young Scottish anthropologist has been asked to find out what he can concerning the origin of a very odd and disturbing manuscript submitted to an English friend of his, who edits a literary magazine. The author's name is known, and so is that of the remote highland village from which the manucript was sent; but no answer can be got to any letter. Walter Urquart has accepted the commission. The story is told by him; and it begins with his arriv...