Call of Cthulhu: The White People
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Volume 2 of the Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen

Comprised of the tales:

• The Red Hand
• The White People
• A Fragment of Life
• The Angels of Mons
• The Greatest Return
• Out of the Earth
• The Coming of the Terror
• The Happy Children
• And the prose-poems of Ornaments in Jade

Nurse put me down on the soft moss under a tree, and she said: "She can't get to the pond now." So they left me there, and I sat quite still and watched, and out of the water and out of the wood came two wonderful white people, and they began to play and dance and sing. They were a kind of creamy white . . . one was a beautiful lady with kind dark eyes, and a grave face, and long black hair, and she smiled such a strange sad smile at the other, who laughed and came to her. They played together, and danced round and round the pool, and they sang a song till I fell asleep. Nurse woke me up when she came back . . . At first she cried, and then she looked very frightened, and turned quite pale. She put me down on the grass and stared at me, and I could see she was shaking all over. Then she said I had been dreaming, but I knew I hadn't. Then she made me promise not to say a word about it to anybody, and if I did I should be thrown into the black pit. I wasn't frightened at all, though nurse was, and I never forgot about it, because when I shut my eyes and it was very quiet, and I was all alone, I could see them again, very faint and far away, but very splendid; and little bits of the song they sang came into my head, but I couldn't sing it.
- From "The White People"

Civilized behavior is not instinctive. Ecstatic nightmares and infernal miracles undermine the comforts and hopes of our ordinary existence. But, infernal or supernal, Machen's extraordinary prose evokes the grace and hell of life with equal facility, and freshens our eyes and hearts.

H.P. Lovecraft declared Arthur Machen (1863-1947) to be a modern master who could create "cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch." This second volume of his work contains the short novel A Fragment of Life, ten short stories including a rarely seen abridgement, "The Coming of Terror" and the superb title story, "The White People". Ornaments of Jade, a much praised set of prose-poems, completes the volume.

Written by Arthur Machen.

192 pages
Stock #CHA6035 * ISBN 1568821727 * $15.00

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