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Novel of the White Powder

Arthur Machen

First published 1895
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The brother of the narrator is prescribed a drug by his doctor, but the lot given him has degraded in such a way as to become the same potion given victims at the historical Witches' Sabbaths, resulting in his physical degeneration but inability to stop taking it.

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August 1923 Cover The Three Impostors Alfred A. Knopf Omnibus 163
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1927 Cover More Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Walter Scott to Michael Arlen Oxford University Press Anthology 282
August 1929 Cover Beware After Dark!: The World's Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror The Macaulay Company Anthology 260
1930 The Three Impostors Alfred A. Knopf Omnibus
1936 The House of Souls The Richards Press Collection 416
1938 The Three Impostors Alfred A. Knopf Omnibus
September 1944 Cover Famous Fantastic Mysteries, September 1944 All-Fiction Field, Inc. MAGAZINE 111
1945 Cover Beware After Dark!: The World's Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror Emerson Anthology 260
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1946 Cover Strange and Fantastic Stories: Fifty Tales of Terror, Horror and Fantasy Whittlesey House Anthology 482
1948 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Alfred A. Knopf Collection |3
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1949 Tales of Horror and the Supernatural The Richards Press Collection
1950 Cover Ghostly Tales to Be Told Dodd, Mead & Co. Anthology 187
1960 Cover The Strange World of Arthur Machen Juniper Press Omnibus |206
1961 Cover Spine Chillers: An Anthology of Mystery and Horror Elek Books Anthology 182
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1964 Tales of Horror and the Supernatural John Baker Collection 43
1964 The Three Impostors John Baker Collection 144
1965 Cover Monster Festival Vanguard Press Anthology 105
1965 Cover The Novel of the White Powder Corgi Collection 9
1966 Cover Black Crusade Corgi Collection 114
1969 Cover Die leuchtende Pyramide und andere Geschichten des Schreckens Insel Collection 32
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1970 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural John Baker Collection 43
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1973 Cover Strange Ecstasies: Stories About Strange and Unearthly Drugs Panther Anthology 36
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1975 Cover Tales of Horror and the Supernatural: Volume 2 Panther Collection 49
1975 Cover Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media Charles Scribner's Sons Nonfiction 93
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June 1977 Cover The Best Ghost Stories Hamlyn Anthology 224
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January 2022 Cover The Black Seal and Other Stories Arcturus Publishing Collection 222
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March 2023 Cover La biblioteca di Lovecraft 2 Edizioni Arcoiris Anthology |1
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