the white people and other weird stories

Though the volume doesn't include Machen's best-known tale, 'The Great God Pan,' it features an insightful foreword by horror movie director Guillermo del Toro, which should help get the book into the hands of contemporary horror fans unfamiliar with Machen's magnificent legacy. Included are his masterpieces 'The White People,' about an innocent's unwitting indoctrination into foul rites of sorcery 'Novel of the Black Seal,' which uncovers the survival of a malignant race of 'little people' in present times and 'Novel of the White Powder,' in which a drug brings on a terrifying transformation in a victim who abuses it. I love them and find that they enhance my enjoyment of an author.

Joshi collects 11 key works that typify Machen's vision of the uncanny and the veil that keeps 'the Beyond' mercifully concealed from mortal eyes. Novel of the Black Seal Novel of the White Powder The Red Hand The White People A Fragment of Life The Bowman The Soldier's Rest The Great Return Out of the Earth The Terror Explanatory Notes Some people don't like Notes and Annotations. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction.

Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird. Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. For this volume, weird fiction scholar S.T. Classic tales of the fantastic, creepy and weird, with a foreword from Guillermo Del Toro Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. At the turn of the 20th century, Welsh author Machen (The Hill of Dreams) wrote tales about evil and 'ecstasy' (his term for supernatural experience) that made a significant impact on horror fiction.

The white people and other weird stories