The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics)

Actor, journalist , devotee of Celtic Christianity and the Holy Grail legend, Welshman Arthur Machen is considered a seminal writer of weird fiction, a master of whose work has drawn comparisons to H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. This exceptional collection offers the perfect introduction to his vision and style. With the title story, an exercise in the bizarre that leaves the reader disoriented virtually from the first page, Machen turns even fundamental truths upside down.