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Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863–1947), better known by his pen-name, Arthur Machen, was an influential Welsh writer of supernatural, occult and mystical stories. Born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Machen was the son of a clergyman and educated as a boarder at the Cathedral School, Hereford.
A series of short pieces were published in 1890 and 1891 in a variety of contemporary newspapers and journals; many qualify as fantastic fiction, set in the world we recognise, yet moving into impossibilities beyond its boundaries; and many deal with gothic themes, not far from horror.
Sep 29, 2009 · Perhaps the most significant but least well remembered of the Tartarus writers is the Welsh author of supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction Arthur Machen (1863-1947).
Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His long story The Great God Pan made him famous and controversial in his lifetime, but The Hill of Dreams is generally considered his masterpiece.
Machen's first published book is neither fiction nor non-fiction, but a paean to then-fashionable tobacco and pipe-smoking, written in 'fantastickal' seventeenth century English. It is simultaneously a parody of scholastic philosophy. One of the most bizarre books ever written, and not much reprinted.
Jan 19, 2018 · Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is one of those writers who seem destined to fall in and out of fashion. Having attained fame, swiftly followed by notoriety, in 1895 when his book The Three Impostors scandalised the London literary world with its account of debauched pagan rituals, Machen had to wait twelve years to get his next novel, The Hill of ...
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys a beautifully produced new edition of Arthur Machen’s study of literature. The Welsh author Arthur Machen (1863-1947) wrote some truly unsettling horror fiction, some notable novels about the Holy Grail, some subtle pioneering weird fiction (which I’ve previously ...
