'I will not read it; I should never sleep again'
A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly
wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister
woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and
decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's weird tale has since
established itself as a classic of its genre and has been described by
Stephen King as 'one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the
best in the English language'.
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of
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