Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos. This first volume of Chaosium's Arthur Machen collection begins with the chilling "The Three Impostors" in its complete form, including the rarely seen sections "The ...
Two works -- one of imaginative and decadent horror, the other lyrical and introspective -- comprise these books by one of the pioneers of supernatural fiction. "The Great God Pan "scandalized Victorian London with its suggestive visions of sexuality and paganism. "The Hill of Dreams" is a semi-autobiographical work about Machen's battles with his ...
In the daytime, the world is very ordinary. Yet walk the same streets after the din of traffic has ebbed away and listen to your footsteps on the midnight pavements. Then sense the darker forces here at work and hear the hiss of hell at your shoulder.
Arthur Machen's novel made a huge impact in 1890 with this tale that literally caused a furor in London by readers who believed the horrific events he described were real.
Lucian Taylor is damned when he becomes a writer, and when he moves to Londonhe becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark creature within him.
Born in Wales in 1863, Machen was a London journalist for much of his life.Among his fiction, he may be best known for the allusive, haunting title story of this book, "The White People, " which H.P. Lovecraft thought to be the second greatest horror story ever written (after Blackwood's "The Wilows"). This wide ranging collection also includes ...
H. P. Lovecraft declared Arthur Machen (1863-1947) to be a modern master of fiction who could create "cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch." This third volume of Machen's work contains an influential short novel, "The Terror," as well as twelve short stories by turns unusual, comical, mordant, and investigative. All are rarely seen now. A ...
Classic horror writer Arthur Machen's tales of the supernatural impinging on the lives of English soldiers in World War I. Includes an introduction and postscript by the author about the phenomenon he inadvertently touched off. Fascinating for horror readers, religious scholars, and World War I afficianados -- as well as Machen's legion of fans
They lay full length upon the turf; the rock between their faces and the Bowl, and now and again, Dyson, slouching his dark, soft hat over his forehead, put out the glint of an eye, and in a moment drew back, not daring to take a prolonged view. Again he laid an ear to the ground and listened, and the hours went by, and the darkness seemed to ...
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer of the spirit. Montgomery Evans II, a wealthy book collector, and one of a small circle of Machen's friends ...
In the great tradition of the "The" "Decameron" and "Canterbury Tales, " "The Heptameron" offers captivating glimpses of a vanished world. Here, 10 people engage in a storytelling battle of the sexes that abounds in tales of murder, adultery, remorse, and revenge, all set in 16th-century France. Translation by Arthur Machen.
1926. From the Preface: The case of Elizabeth Canning is one of the minor enigmas of the world. Like the song that the Sirens sang, and the name which Achilles bore when he dwelt among women, it may not be beyond all conjecture, but it is, assuredly, beyond all certitude. It is a puzzle. We may approximate, perhaps to the answer; but we shall ...
They were purged as if they had passed through the Furnace of the Sages governed with Wisdom that the alchemists know. They spoke without much difficulty of what they had seen, or had seemed to see, with their eyes, but hardly at all of what their hearts had known when for a moment the glory of the fiery rose had been about them.
""But I remember when I was five or six I heard them talking about me when they thought I was not noticing. They were saying how queer I was a year or two before, and how nurse had called my mother to come and listen to me talking all to myself, and I was saying words that nobody could understand. I was speaking the Xu language, but I only ...
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