Arthur Machen Horror Stories

by Arthur Machen, Steven Prizeman (Foreword by)

Overview

Alongside M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood and Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen wrote powerful, chilling and thought-provoking stories. His supernatural tales draw their power from the long nights and dark lanes of the Welsh countryside that raised him, surrounded as he was by the remains of Roman forts and Iron Age archeology. His 1914 story, 'The Bowmen' is the source of the legend of the Angel of Mons, where a supernatural bowman covered the retreat of soldiers in the first world war.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804177952
Publisher:	Flame Tree Publishing
Publication date:	05/14/2024
Series:	Gothic Fantasy
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was born Arthur Llewellyn Jones in Caerleon in Wales. Moving to London, but living an impoverished existence, Machen eventually found success with his horror novella 'The Great God Pan', and soon after 'The Three Impostors'. Machen firmly established himself as a master storyteller of decadent supernatural horror, publishing several occult and weird tales with memorable plots and a real skill for the esoteric, creating dark and suspenseful atmospheres.

Steven Prizeman, MA MRes Lond, is an independent writer and historian. His principal interests are seventeenth-century satire, almanacs, heresiography, and political and religious controversy. He is also interested in writing about witchcraft – and the ‘weird fiction’ of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that drew so heavily upon it. He can be found at stevenprizeman.academia.edu.

Editorial Reviews

"Powerful, chilling and thought-provoking stories [...] For those unfamiliar with Machen’s work this is a good place to start. Recommended."

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