Arthur Machen: 30+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Fantasy Books gathers the essential works of one of fin-de-siècle Britain's most singular writers, including tales of occult revelation, pagan survivals, visionary terror, and metaphysical wonder. Moving between Gothic inheritance, Decadent prose, and early weird fiction, Machen's stories transform London streets, Welsh landscapes, and scholarly manuscripts into thresholds of forbidden knowledge. His style is ornate, allusive, an...

The Bowmen was written in the year 1914 by Arthur Machen. This book is one of the most popular novels of Arthur Machen, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), popular Welsh writer of the bizarre and fantastic, created some of the finest horror stories ever written. He produced works that would later have a profound influence on science fiction author H. P. Lovecraft, and the contemporary horror genre as a whole. This novel contains what are considered to be Machen's best works, written as a set of interwoven tales that shocked his Victorian contemporaries with their risqué subject matter and wonderfully eerie descripti...

Classic tales of the fantastic, creepy and weird, with a foreword from the award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo Del ToroMachen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People"...

Set against the haunted landscapes of late Victorian Wales, Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan begins with a forbidden experiment that unleashes something unspeakable into the world which reorders reality itself. What follows is an unsettling tapestry of madness, occult mystery, and psychological horror that pulses with the dread of half-glimpsed truths and shadowy taboos. With its bold fusion of Gothic, science-fiction, and Decadent influences, Machen's novella scandalized its fir...

Dubbed the greatest horror story in English by Stephen King, The Great God Pan is an eerie and otherworldly mystery about a diabolical operation and its terrifying repercussions. After rescuing a young woman from the streets of London, Dr Raymond uses her as a test subject for brain surgery aimed at ‘lifting the veil’ of reality, to see the supernatural and the ‘great god Pan’. The operation is a disaster and leaves the subject lobotomised. Years later, London becomes afflicted with a stra...

The Great God Pan' is a novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. It was first published in the year 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Machen’s story was only one of many at the time to focus on the Greek God Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism.Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the ...

If you consider yourself a fan of the horror genre, you need to add Arthur Machen's short novel The Great God Pan to your library. Cited by Stephen King and numerous other writers as one of the greatest horror stories ever published, this fantastical tale recounts the bizarre experiments conducted by mad scientist Dr. Raymond in an attempt to call forth a manifestation of the pagan god Pan. As is often the case, these unholy undertakings engender consequences that no one could have predict...

The Great God Pan is a 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. The novella has been classified as Decadent literature as well, as it features hallmarks of the genre such as "occultism, paganism, non-mainstream eroticism, sexual diversity, the femme fatale, violent and strange deaths, and the simultaneous investment in and disavowal of bourgeois identities." Pan has a...

To anyone interested in supernatural fiction, the work of Welsh master Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is a fundamental starting point. In 2008, Stephen King called Machen's "The Great God Pan" (included here) "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language" in an interview. And H.P. Lovecraft wrote: "Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen, author of some dozen tales long and short, in which the element...

'Sorcery and sanctity,' said Ambrose, 'these are the only realities. Each is an ecstasy, a withdrawal from the common life.' Cotgrave listened, interested. He had been brought by a friend to this mouldering house in a northern suburb, through an old garden to the room where Ambrose the recluse dozed and dreamed over his books. 'Yes,' he went on, 'magic is justified of her children. There are many, I think, who eat dry crusts and drink water, with a joy infinitely sharper than anything with...