![]() ![]() Originally published in Horlicks Magazine, the story was later printed in The House of Souls. Fans of supernatural fiction often cite this story as a classic in the genre. The White People (1904) is a short story by Arthur Machen. It was written in the late 1890s as part of a longer unfinished novel, some sketches from which went into his book Ornaments in Jade. The White People is a highly influential horror story of a young girl’s discovery of ancient magic. 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. Download cover art Download CD case insert The White People ![]()
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