The White People and Other Weird Stories

Actor, journalist, devotee of Celtic Christianity and the Holy Grail legend, Welshman Arthur Machen is considered a seminal writer of weird fiction, a master whose work has drawn comparisons with H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. This exceptional collection offers the perfect introduction to his vision and style. With the title story, an exercise in the bizarre that leaves the reader disoriented virtually from the first page, Machen turns even fundamental truths upside down.

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen, author of some dozen tales long and short, in which the elements of hidden horror and brooding fright attain an almost incomparable substance and realistic acuteness." –H. P. Lovecraft

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by S. T. JOSHI


CONTENTS

- Foreword by GUILLERMO DEL TORO: "The Ecstasy of St. Arthur", vii
- Introduction by S.T. JOSHI, xi
- Suggestions for Further Reading, xxv
- A Note on the Texts, xxix

THE WHITE PEOPLE AND OTHER WEIRD
STORIES

- The Inmost Light, 1
- Novel of the Black Seal, 29
- Novel of the White Powder, 67
- The Red Hand, 83
- The White People, 111
- A Fragment of Life, 148
- The Bowmen, 223
- The Soldiers' Rest, 227
- The Great Return, 232
- Out of the Earth, 265
- The Terror, 272

Explanatory Notes, 359

Aventura / Contos / Fantasia / Ficção / Horror / Literatura Estrangeira / Terror