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Three Imposters and Other Stories
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Arthur Machen
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 ...
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The House of Souls
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Arthur Machen
Combining in one volume four of Machen's classics from the '90s: A Fragment of Life; ; The White People; The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light. Lovecraft in his Supernatural Horror in Literature called Machen one of the four modern masters.
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Hill of Dreams
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Arthur Machen
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.
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The Great God Pan and the Hill of Dreams
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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 ...
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Tales of Horror & the Supernatural
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The Great God Pan
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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.
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The Three Impostors
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"It is all more strange than I fancied," he said at last. "It was queer enough what I saw; a man is sauntering along a quiet, sober, everyday London street, a street of grey houses and blank walls, and there, for a moment, a veil seems drawn aside, and the very fume of the pit steams up through the flagstones, the ground glows, red-hot, beneath ...
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The Shining Pyramid
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Arthur Machen
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 ...
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The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Giacomo Casanova, Arthur Machen
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The terror
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Arthur Machen
"Explosion at Munition Works in the Northern District: Many Fatalities." The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal. . . . I took a tram to the location of the disaster; a raw and hideous shed with a walled yard about ...
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The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War (the Angels of Mons)
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Arthur Machen
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
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The secret glory
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Unlike most of Machen's other works, "The Secret Glory" is not usually considered a work of horror. Instead it is a semi-autobiographical tale of a young man, Ambrose Meyrick, and his attempt to struggle through the public school system all the while preoccupied with a childhood memory of the Holy Grail hidden in his native Wales. Arthur Machen is ...
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Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy in Literature
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The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 2
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Arthur Machen, S. T. Joshi (Editor)
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 ...
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Blood and Roses: The Vampire in 19th Century Literature
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Adele Olivia Gladwell (Editor)
A collection of vampire stories by such authors as Bram Stoker, Sheridan LeFanu, John Polidori, and Baudelaire, among others.
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Arthur Machen and Montgomery Evans: Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-1947
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Sue S Hassler (Editor), Donald M Hassler (Editor), Arthur Machen
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 ...
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Dreads and Drolls
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Arthur Machen
There! Can you imagine what would happen if one submitted the above as an outline or sketch of a possible plot to our really modern writers, the veritable Georgians? I don't think that they would be cross, or snap your head off, or wonder audibly what theatre put on transpontine melodrama in these days, or say it was interesting to find that Sue ...
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The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War
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Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a leading Welsh author. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. At the age of eleven, he boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. Family ...
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A fragment of life
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Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863-1947) who wrote under the pen name Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of The Angels of Mons (1915). In 1884, he published the pastiche The Anatomy of Tobacco, and ...
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Selected Letters: The Private Writings of the Master of the Macabre
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Arthur Machen
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The Heptameron: Selected Tales
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Marguerite, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor), Arthur Machen (Translator)
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.
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The Terror & Other Tales: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 3
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Arthur Machen, S T Joshi (Editor)
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 ...
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A few letters from Arthur Machen : letters to Munson Havens
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Arthur Machen, Munson Aldrich Havens, Roger Dobson
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The Heptameron: Tales and Novels of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre
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Arthur Machen (Translator), Marguerite d'Angouleme, Marguerite
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A Venerable Assembly: the History of Enable, Baetjer and Howard
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Arthur W. Machen, Jr
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