The White People

Often described as one of the greatest of all horror short stories. The novella is presented as a young girl's diary, detailing her increasingly getting deeper into witchcraft, and discovery of ancient magic. A man is given the diary by another man who wishes to demonstrate what the real nature of evil is all about. Literary critics see Arthur Machen’s works as a significant part of the late Victorian revival of the gothic novel and the decadent movement of the 1890s, bearing direct comparison to the themes found in contemporary works like Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The White People is a highly influential horror story that was written in the late 1890s as part of a longer unfinished novel, some sketches from which went into his book Ornaments in Jade. Fans of supernatural