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“As I glanced up I had looked straight towards the last house in the row before me, and in an upper window of that house I had seen for some short fraction of a second a face. It was the face of a woman, and yet it was not human.”

Quote by Arthur Machen

Book:The White People and Other Weird Stories

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The White People and Other Weird Stories

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Arthur Machen was an English author renowned for his supernatural and horror fiction. His works often explore the boundaries between human consciousness and the supernatural, profoundly influencing 20th-century horror literature. more

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