Arthur Machen: 165 books

It was my privilege, many years ago, to make the acquaintance of the obscure literary hermit, whose talk I have tried to reproduce in the pages that follow. Our first meeting was one of those chance affairs that now and then mitigate the loneliness of the London streets, and a second hazard led to the...

Published in 1917 and set during the Great War in London, this novella features a series of unexplained—and seemingly inexplicable—murders. When all animals turn on humanity, how does one fight back?

This collection of groundbreaking fantasy includes the decadent horror classic “The Great God Pan,” about a mad scientist who brings Pan to earth. Also includes the mystical stories “A Fragment of Life,” “The White People,” and “The Inmost Light.”

The Coming of the Terror After two years we are turning once more to the morning's news with a sense of appetite and glad expectation. There were thrills at the beginning of the war; the thrill of horror and of a doom that seemed at once incredible and certain; this was when Namur fell and the German...

Leave Bologna a Happy Man— The Captain Parts from Us in Reggio, where I

They were purged as if they had passed through the Furnace of the Sages governed with Wisdom that the alchemists know. They spoke without much difficulty of what they had seen, or had seemed to see, with their eyes, but hardly at all of what their hearts had known when for a moment the glory of the fiery rose had been about them.

Some years ago I met my old master, Sir Frank Benson—he was Mr. F. R. Benson then—and he asked me in his friendly way what I had been doing lately. "I am just finishing a book," I replied, "a book that everybody will hate." "As usual," said the Don Quixote of our English stage—if I knew any nobler...

La Prima Guerra Mondiale era da poco iniziata. I soldati inglesi combattevano su suolo belga e in patria i lettore richiedevano letteratura eroica. Un libro avvincente per intensità emotiva, convincente per trama narrativa e tuttavia misterioso per quanto affida ad un marcato immaginario collettivo...

My Stay at Riga— Campioni St. Heleine— D'Asagon— Arrival of the

Whether the author died before the work was complete, whether the concluding volumes were destroyed by himself or his literary executors, or whether the MS. fell into bad hands, seems a matter of uncertainty, and the materials available towards a continuation of the Memoirs are extremely fragmentary....

A sensitive young man is sustained through his barbaric schooling by thoughts and memories of the Holy Grail kept secret in his Welsh homeland. He embarks on a journey to find the Holy Grail and to become a Celtic mystic like his forefathers, when the book ends abruptly with a report of his death.