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Ecstasy, Sin, and "The White People"
Description
JF and Phil delve deep into Arthur Machen's fin-de-siècle masterpiece, "The White People," for insight into the nature of ecstasy, the psychology of fairies, the meaning of sin, and the challenge of living without a moral horizon.
WORKS CITED OR DISCUSSED
Arthur Machen, "The White People" - full text or Weird Stories audiobook read by Phil Ford
Arthur Machen, Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy
H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature"
J.F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Jack Sullivan (ed)., The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story
Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality
Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers
Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians
Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
J.K. Huysmans, Against Nature (À rebours)
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