Arthur Machen
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"The Great God Pan, The White People, and Other Stories" is a collection of nineteen short stories and novellas by Arthur Machen. The Welsh author, journalist, actor, and mystic, was well-known for his early influential horror and supernatural fantasy tales published in the late 19th and early 20th century. Included in this collection are some of his most enduring and famous works, such as the novella "The Great God Pan", first published in 1890....
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First published in 1917, "The Terror" is a short novel by Welsh author Arthur Machan set in England during the First World War. After an inexplicable series of murders are committed with no clue as to the perpetrator, a mystery starts to unravel in front of the townspeople. A gripping murder mystery by a modern master of the genre, "The Terror" is not to be missed by those with a love of the uncanny and unexplained.
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"The Islington Mystery" is a classic horror mystery story by one of the modern masters of supernatural and horror fiction, Arthur Machan. 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 to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella "The Great God Pan" (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen...
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"Tales of Horror and the Supernatural" is a collection of some of Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machan's best horror and mystery fiction. Throughout his life, Machan espoused the existence of the mystical and supernatural, a belief reinforced by numerous inexplicable and, he would argue, preternatural experience that he himself was witness to. His life and work revolved around this idea, and in time he became one of the masters of modern supernatural...
26) Change
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"Change" is a short story written by Welsh author and renowned mystic Arthur Machan. The plot revolves around a strange piece of paper with a series of repeated letters on it that is intrinsically linked to an uncanny historical mystery. Clever and chilling, Machan's "Change" is a perfect example of a masterful short story infused with mystery and the macabre that it is not to be missed by lovers of supernatural fiction. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947)...
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To anyone interested in supernatural fiction, the work of Welsh master Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is a fundamental starting point.
"The Arthur Machen Megapack" presents 25 Classic Works by Arthur Machen, ranging from supernatural to war stories, including 3 poems and a critical essay by Vincent Starrett. Almost 1,200 pages!
Included are:
• ARTHUR MACHEN: A NOVELIST OF ECSTASY AND SIN, by Vincent Starrett.
• THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE BARD.
• THE...
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"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 to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella "The Great God Pan" (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories...
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"The Children of the Pool" is a 1936 collection of six stories by Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machan. Each tale is imbued with the supernatural or inexplicable that dominated Machan's life and work, featuring characters such as the bookish recluse in "The Exalted Omega" and the kabbalistic artist in "Out of the Picture". Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary...
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The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations is an episodic horror novel by British writer Arthur Machen. The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London-relating the aforementioned weird tales in the process-as they search for a...
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First published in 1926, "Dreads and Drolls" is a collection of essays compiled by Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machan, many of which were taken from the publication "The Graphic". The essays concern various historical and purportedly true tales of real characters and the strange and seemingly supernatural situations surrounding them and, often, their demises. This volume is not to be missed by lovers of the macabre and those with an interest in...
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Quizá ninguna otra figura encarne mejor la transición de la tradición gótica al horror moderno que Arthur Machen. En la última década del siglo XIX, el escritor galés produjo un cuerpo seminal de relatos de horror y de lo oculto, de corrupción espiritual y física, y de sobrevivientes malignos del pasado primigenio, que horrorizaron y escandalizaron a los lectores de finales de la era victoriana.
La casa de las almas es una colección de cuatro...
33) Holy Terrors
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This vintage book contains a collection of chilling and macabre stories by Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machan. The stories include: "The Brightest Boy", "The Tree of Life", "Opening the Door", "The Marriage of Panurge", "The Holy Things", "Psychology", "The Turanians", "The Rose Garden", "The Ceremony", "The Soldiers' Rest", "The Happy Children", "The Cosy Room", "Munitions of War", "The Great Return", and more. These unsettling supernatural tales...
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Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
35) Hieroglyphics
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Fascinating mystical and artistic creed and a good-natured marvel of circumlocution. Practically everything Machen wrote in the 1890s had the touch of genius, and this even applies to his non-fiction, though this is actually presented as a fictional account from Machen's familiar of imagination. Here Arthur Machen vaguely details how he separates high literature from mere reading material, and whilst such an essay may sound haughty and pretentious,...
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"The Novel of the White Powder" is a short story by Welsh author Arthur Machan, first published in his novel "The Three Imposters" (1895). The story concerns a man whose behavior alters dramatically as the result a change in his prescription. However, even though some of these changes are indubitably for the better, his sister remains skeptical-and with good reason. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s...
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Arthur Machen (1863-1947), popular Welsh writer of the bizarre and fantastic, created some of the finest horror stories ever written. He produced works that would later have a profound influence on science fiction author H. P. Lovecraft, and the contemporary horror genre as a whole. This novel contains what are considered to be Machen's best works, written as a set of interwoven tales that shocked his Victorian contemporaries with their risqué subject...
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Fantastic and Horrific Stories (2021) is a collection of short fiction by Arthur Machen. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication, Machen's writing earned praise from Oscar Wilde and H. P. Lovecraft. Throughout the years, Machen's work has been referenced and adapted by such figures as Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, and Josh Malerman for its masterfully unsettling blend of science, myth, and magic. The Great God Pan, perhaps Machen's...
40) Eleusinia
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Edizioni Aurora Boreale
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2023
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The Welsh writer, poet and novelist Arthur Machen, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction, was above all a great mystic and initiate, and a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings,...
From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings,...