"But I remember when I was five or six I heard them talking about me when they thought I was not noticing. They were saying how queer I was a year or two before, and how nurse had called my mother to come and listen to me talking all to myself, and I was saying words that nobody could understand. I was speaking the Xu language, but I only remember a very few of the words, as it was about the little white faces that used to look at me when I was lying in my cradle." – from The White People
This volume contains two of Arthur Machen's best stories: The Red Hand, a murder mystery involving flint weapons, treasure, and the chalking of a red hand upon a wall; and The White People, a story thought by H. P. Lovecraft to be the second best horror tale ever written. It centers around a young girl's diary, relating her encounters with the deadly inhabitants of an alternate world.
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Arthur Machen is the pen name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones (1863–1947), who was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.
