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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 ...
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]
Starrett was a major enthusiast of Welsh writer Arthur Machen and was instrumental in bringing Machen's work to an American audience for the first time. [6] Starrett's grave at Graceland Cemetery. His influential weekly column "Books Alive" ran in the Chicago Tribune for 25 years. [7]
The Green Round is a horror novel by Welsh author Arthur Machen. It was originally published by Ernest Benn Limited in 1933. The first U.S. edition was published by Arkham House in 1968 in an edition of 2,058 copies. It was the only book by Machen to be published by Arkham House.
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 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.
Wesley Duaine Sweetser (1919–2006) was an American literary scholar.. Born in National City, California, United States, he attended the University of Colorado, where he gained a Ph.D. for a thesis on Welsh writer Arthur Machen.
Zuleika summons and questions Tamai and other handmaidens. Using the plot against Pharaoh as an excuse, Wakara persuades Joseph to come. But Zuleika cannot seduce him; Joseph sees in her sinuous form and shining eyes the serpents in the dry well of Dothan. He flees her, and she curses him. (Curtain) (Scene 4: Same as Act II, Scene 1, dawn)