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Machen's popularity in 1920s America has been noted, and his work was an influence on the development of the pulp horror found in magazines like Weird Tales and on such notable fantasy writers as James Branch Cabell, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, [17] Frank Belknap Long (who wrote a tribute to Machen in verse, "On Reading Arthur Machen ...
While adapted from the novella and using much the same artwork of the graphic video series, the comic also contains additional scenes and information providing a fuller story, such as, the fate of the Ackermans, revealing N.'s full name and who spoke it to him in the field, who was responsible for giving N. the key and further expanding on ...
In "The Bowmen" Machen's soldier saw "a long line of shapes, with a shining about them". A Mr. A. P. Sinnett, writing in The Occult Review, stated that "those who could see said they saw 'a row of shining beings' between the two armies". This led Machen to suggest that the bowmen of his story had become the Angels of Mons. [1]
The Great God Pan is an 1894 horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the newspaper The Whirlwind in 1890
"The White People" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s, it was first published in 1904 in Horlick's Magazine, edited by Machen's friend A. E. Waite, then reprinted in Machen's collection The House of Souls (1906).
“The Shining” is brilliantly made around the edges but with (to me) a huge dollop of evil banality at its climax. Yet that’s why “Shine On” is my kind of “Shining” documentary. It ...
The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations is an episodic horror novel by Welsh writer Arthur Machen, first published in 1895 in The Bodley Head's Keynotes Series. It was revived in paperback by Ballantine Books as the forty-eighth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1972.
Danny Torrance is introduced in The Shining as the five-year-old son of Jack and Wendy Torrance.He has psychic powers that fellow psychic Dick Hallorann calls "shining" – he can read people's thoughts, communicate telepathically with others who "shine", and has frequent, frightening prophetic visions.