'The Red Hand' and 'The White People' by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Horror Contributor(s): Machen, Arthur (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598181602 ISBN-13: 9781598181609 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This volume contains two of Arthur Machen's best stories: THE RED HAND, a murder mystery involving flint weapons, treasure and the chalking of a red hand upon a wall; and THE WHITE PEOPLE, a story thought by H.P. Lovecraft to be the second best horror tale ever written, which centers around a young girl's diary relating her encounters with the deadly inhabitants of an alternate world. "But I remember when I was five or six I heard them talking about me when they thought I was not noticing. They were saying how queer I was a year or two before, and how nurse had called my mother to come and listen to me talking all to myself, and I was saying words that nobody could understand. I was speaking the Xu language, but I only remember a very few of the words, as it was about the little white faces that used to look at me when I was lying in my cradle." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 120 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Machen, Arthur: - "Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language"). He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons." |