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Arthur Machen

Short Fiction

Arthur Machen was a Welsh man of letters who wrote his most famous work in the late 1890s and early 1900s. While his body of work is wide, he’s perhaps best known for his supernaturally-flavored proto-horror short stories. The Great God Pan—perhaps his most famous work—along with «The Inmost Light» and The White People deeply influenced later writers like H. P. Lovecraft. Stephen King has gone so far as to call The Great God Pan «maybe the best [horror story] in the English language».
Besides his horror short stories, Machen also wrote a handful of post World War I supernatural shorts. One of these, «The Bowmen», was published in a popular newspaper and was implied to be non-fiction, leading to the creation of the «Angels of Mons» urban legend. This collection includes several other World War I short stories published by Machen.
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Quotes

  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted2 years ago
    As ana­lo­gies go, that is a pretty good ana­logy of what I have done; you can un­der­stand now a little of what I felt as I stood here one even­ing; it was a sum­mer even­ing, and the val­ley looked much as it does now; I stood here, and saw be­fore me the un­ut­ter­able, the un­think­able gulf that yawns pro­found between two worlds, the world of mat­ter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim be­fore me, and in that in­stant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the un­known shore, and the abyss was spanned.
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