A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses. It is a young girl's diary, in which she describes in ingenuous, evocative prose her strange impressions of the countryside in which she lives as well as conversations with her nurse, who initiates her into a secret world of folklore and ritual magic. Throughout, the girl makes cryptic allusions to such topics as "nymphs," "Dols," "voolas," "white, green, and scarlet ceremonies," "Aklo letters," the "Xu" and "Chian" languages, "Mao games," and a game called "Troy Town" (the...
A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses. It is a young girl's diary, in wh...
The House of Souls is a collection of four masterpieces of horror and mystery, by Arthur Machen, first collectively published in 1906.
A Fragment of Lifetells of a young couple, the Darnells, living in a London suburb. Machen gives an enormous amount of detail to illustrate the Darnells’ life only to convince the reader (and Mr. Darnell) that this is just a fragment of life or part of a greater, but hidden reality.
The White Peoplewas written in the late 1890s, and first published in...
The House of Souls is a collection of four masterpieces of horror and mystery, by Arthur Machen, first collectively published in 1906.
