About this title: Born in Wales in 1863, Machen was a London journalist for much of his life.Among his fiction, he may be best known for the allusive, haunting title story of this book, "The White People, " which H.P. Lovecraft thought to be the second greatest horror story ever written (after Blackwood's "The Wilows"). This wide ranging collection also includes the crystalline novelette "A Fragment of Life, " "The Angel of Mons, " (a story so widely reported that it was imagined true by millions in the grim initial days of the Great War), and "The Great Return, " telling of the stately visions which graced ...
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Edition: First Edition Reprint Private Press
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Chaosium, Incorporated, USA
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781568821726ISBN:1568821727
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall Introduction by ST. Joshi. CONTENTS: The Red Hand / Selections from ORNAMENTS IN JADE / The White People / A FRAGMENT OF LIFE / The Angels of Mons / The Great Return / Out of the Earth / The Coming of the Terror / The Happy Children. 284pp. read more
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