ARTHUR MACHEN Ultimate Collection: Dark Fantasy Classics, Supernatural Tales & Horror Stories

Arthur Machen

Dec 2023 · DigiCat

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This carefully crafted ebook: "ARTHUR MACHEN Ultimate Collection: Dark Fantasy Classics, Supernatural Tales & Horror Stories (Including Essays, Translations & Autobiography)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language"). Historian of fantastic literature Brian Stableford has suggested that Machen "was the first writer of authentically modern horror stories, and his best works must still be reckoned among the finest products of the genre". Table of Contents: Novels: The Three Impostors The Hill of Dreams The Terror: A Mystery The Secret Glory Short Stories and Novellas: A Fragment of Life The White People The Great God Pan The Inmost Light The Shining Pyramid The Red Hand The Bowmen The Soldiers' Rest The Monstrance The Dazzling Light The Bowmen And Other Noble Ghosts The Marriage of Panurge Psychology The Rose Garden The Ceremony The Happy Children The Great Return A New Christmas Carol Out of the Earth Essay: Hieroglyphics Translation: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798 Autobiography: Far Off Things Criticism: Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin (With Two Uncollected Poems by Arthur Machen)

About the author

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was a Welsh author and mystic, renowned for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is frequently regarded as one of the pioneers in introducing modern supernatural and fantastical themes within literature. Machen's prose undoubtedly embodies a rich, textured gothic sensibility, deeply immersed in an air of antiquity and esotericism. His noteworthy contributions include 'The Great God Pan' (1894), which Stephen King has lauded as one of the best horror stories ever written, and 'The Hill of Dreams' (1907), which evocatively explores the blurred lines between reverie and reality. 'The Three Impostors' (1895), with its interwoven tales, displays Machen's skill in concocting a unique blend of folklore, adventure, and terror. 'The White People' (1917) represents another masterful example of Machen's narrative on the arcane and otherworldly. The 'ARTHUR MACHEN Ultimate Collection' serves as an extensive compilation of his oeuvre, offering readers a comprehensive journey through Machen's literary landscape. His stylistic influence can be traced through the work of later horror and fantasy writers, making him an enduring figure in the annals of weird and speculative fiction. A member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, his fascination with the occult and metaphysical questions permeates his stories, providing a profound philosophical undercurrent to his narratives. An adept of transforming the Welsh countryside into a canvas for the uncanny, Machen's legacy is that of an author who forged his unique brand of cosmic horror and ineffable wonder long before such terms entered the common lexicon of the genre.