Machen's weird tales of the creepy & fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics With an introduction from ST Joshi editor of American Supernatural Tales The White People & Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction The title story The White People is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented & on edge From the first page Machen turns even fundamental truths upside-down as his character Ambrose explains there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed' setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic