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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 ...
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. Machen later extended The Great God Pan and it was published as a book alongside another story, "The Inmost Light", in 1894. The ...
Machen had read widely in mystical literature and folklore ever since an early employer had set him to work cataloguing occult books, [5] and his learning gave his tale a depth and verisimilitude unusual in such works. The use of the Green Book as a false document has roots in the Gothic tradition and is similar to the use of such documents by ...
Machen drew copiously on his own early years in Wales and London, and the book as a whole is an exploration through imagination of a potential fate which he personally avoided. One of the first explorations in fiction of the figure of the doomed artist, who is biographically so much a part of the decadent 1890s.
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.
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.
Of course, Brown has been part of Arthur's life for a lot longer than 25 years. The author created his signature character 46 years ago in the best-selling 1976 children's book Arthur's Nose. That ...
Pages in category "Works by Arthur Machen" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. The Great God Pan;