![]() ![]() ![]() “Machen’s narrative, a triumph of skillful selectiveness and restraint, accumulates enormous power as it flows on in a stream of innocent childish prattle” H. The original story was influential on some of the horror greats including H.P. The Twisted Ones carries forward this haunting tale. Written in 1899 and first published in 1904 in Horlick’s Magazine, then reprinted in Machen’s 1906 collection The House of Souls. This line, which will inevitably haunt you, “Then I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the twisted ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the dead ones” comes directly from “The White People.” The White People” is a short horror story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. You will want to go back to the 1890’s when the short horror story “ The White People” was first written. The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher has some suggested reading before you dive in. ![]()
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