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The White People And Other Weird Stories (1904)

by Arthur Machen(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0143105590 (ISBN13: 9780143105596)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Penguin Classics

series

The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen

review 1: Some of these stories like The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The White People, and The Inmost Light I really enjoyed. Others I didn't care so much for like A Fragment of Life. Overall, I like Machen's righting because they aren't outright horrific--instead, they build in ominousness and horror. They are very subtle. Overall, I've come to really enjoy this sort of writing as it's very different than most contemporary writers like Stephen King.
review 2: I read three stories here, or one story with three different titles, anyway. I guess there's something vaguely interesting about Machen, a man who writes about demons and fairies not as metaphors, but as truly real, living things. I'm sure he'd be a lot of fun if he could, you know, wr... moreite well. Maybe this collection gets better... I'll never know. As someone who does not believe in demons and fairies as truly real, living things, I can't said I was either scared or impressed. less

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