Horror Historia Violet — Arthur MacHen

She appeared to have wings, which hummed in their furious movement; she was red in the face, her eyes burned; she grinned at me and ground her little teeth together. A curious shrill noise came from her, like the screaming of a gnat or hoverfly; but no words, never any words.Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dread allure across the world, infiltrating culture and influencing language, becoming the source for multiple adaptations across all forms of media. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia Violet brings together thirty-one of the most horrifying and heartbreaking stories of ethereal spirits. Fairies, elves, goblins, kelpies, nymphs, dryads, sirens, banshees, sprites, and even Pan himself are presented here from an assortment of writers.Calloway has captured the following tales: Ancient Lights and May Day Eve by Algernon Blackwood, Beckwith's Case by Maurice Hewlett, Bells of Oceana by Arthur J. Burks, The Brownie of the Black Haggs by James Hogg, The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson, By the Yellow Moonrock and The Washer of the Ford by Fiona Macleod, Carnaby's Fish by Carl Jacobi, The Child That Went With the Fairies and Laura Silver Bell by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The Devil of the Marsh by H. B. Marriott Watson, Frank Martin and the Fairies by William Carleton, The Kelpie by Manly Wade Wellman, The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson, The Moon-Slave by Barry Pain, The Moorland Stream by Arthur L. Salmon, The Music on the Hill by Saki, A Night on the Enchanted Mountains by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Norah and the Fairies by Hume Nisbet, The Nymph of the Fountain by Johann Karl August Musäus, Seppi, the Goatherd by C. B. Burckhardt, The Shining Pyramid and The White People by Arthur Machen, The Story of a Panic by E. M. Forster, The Transformation by Mary Shelley, The Wife of Kong Tolv by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, The Women of the Wood by Abraham Merritt, and the anonymously published The Enchanted Lake, The Nymph of the Waters, and The Water Lady. Poems included are Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats, The Sorceress of the Sea by W., and The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats.For the truly fair, collect each Horror Historia volume and complete the ultimate nightmare pantheon.