Arthur Machen was a hugely prolific essayist and journalist. In a career that spanned more than half a century, he wrote thousands of articles for such magazines and newspapers as the London Evening News, John OLondons Weekly, and the Independent. In thes...
The Great God Pan (1894) is a novella by Arthur Machen. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication, The Great God Pan earned praise from Oscar Wilde and H. P. Lovecraft, and is now regarded as one of Victorian literatureâs finest...
The Three Impostors (1895) is a novel by Arthur Machen. Consisting of interwoven stories involving the title characters, The Three Impostors was compared to the prose style of Robert Louis Stevenson on publication. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon...
The White People (1904) is a short story by Arthur Machen. Originally published in Horlick's Magazine , the story was later printed in The House of Souls (1906), a short story collection. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication, Machen's...
The Great God Pan is a horror and fantasy novel by the Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write about the Great God Pan through his experiences in the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. The novel begins with an experiment that allows a woma...
This second volume of Machen's collected fiction begins with Machen's most accomplished novel, The Hill of Dreams (written in 1895-97 and published in 1907), which H. P. Lovecraft called a "memorable epic of the sensitive aesthetic mind."...
This third volume of Machens collected fiction begins with a tale, The Thousand and One Nights, that has never before been reprinted. It continues with a succession of tales that Machen wrote during and just after World War I, a cataclysm that shook Europ...
Welsh writer Arthur Machen (18631947) is one of the towering figures in the Golden Age of weird fiction, and his novels and tales have influenced generations of weird writers and remain immensely popular among readers. But much of his work has been diffic...
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Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal body of tales of occult horror, spiritual and physical corru...
"The Glorious Mystery" is a 1924 collection of essays and vignettes by Arthur Machen. Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions...
"Things Near and Far" was is the second part of Arthur Machenâs autobiography. The first part is contained in "Far Off Things" (1922) and the third in "The London Adventure" (1924). Arthur Machen (1863 -...