Whilst this isn't an in your face horror story it is still a superbly chilling Gothic horror that creeps up on you as Villiers' tells of his experiences, building to a finale that leaves the reader stunned and horrified. This version also has two more stories by Machen, the first is the Shining Pyramid that follows two friends as they try and understand stone messages left along a nearby footpath, messages not meant for them. The second is the White People which is a story within a story as two friends find and read the Green Book, which turns out to be the diary of a young woman as she is plagued by visions and experiences of the occult kind. Machen has a simplicity about his writing that allows the story to breathe and wash over the reader, which actually has more of an impact than the outright gory style that modern horrors take and as such I find these kind of tales far more disturbing than those that can so easily be dismissed through logic or brushed off as violence and nothing more.