Arthur Machen

An influential writer of supernatural fiction, Arthur Machen was born in Wales, in 1863. Many modern writers, such as Stephen King, have cited him as an inspiration....

Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan"....

On publication, it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its implied sexual content, and the novella hurt Machen's reputation as an author. Beginning in the 1920s, Machen's work was critically re-evaluated....

When Ms Lally walked out into the cold night devoid of hope, hungry and penniless, she expected to find a quiet place to lie down and die....

The Green Book is a precious artefact procured from the possessions of a dead woman, and carefully kept in secret by the aged and studious Ambrose....

In The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen invites you to step into a shadowy world where the boundaries between science and the supernatural blur—and where...

Lucian Taylor dreams of becoming an author, but not just any author, the best of authors. Obsession with perfection drives him to extremes of self-deprivation, which leaves him in a state where reality and fantasy blend....

A masterpiece of suspense and the supernatural, The Terror blends the supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction into a story that would influence future writing in the horror genre for decades.

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author known for his works of horror and the fantastic. Holy Terrors (published in 1946, a year before his death) is a collection of 14 short stories....

The streets of the city are dark and wet, and when a sheltering archway leads to a chance encounter it starts a haunting mystery of undiscovered occult horror....

"The Red Hand" (1895) tells of a grisly murder committed with the most unusual of weapons, an ancient stone axe....

The Three Impostors is a series of convoluted horror tales about three individuals who are searching for a "young man with spectacles" who has inadvertently stolen something of great importance....

Arthur Machen’s novella explores the disturbing consequences of toying with the line between the earthly world and the spiritual realm....

Inspired by a trip to a graveyard in Wales, the novella was originally not well received. The Great God Pan is now considered an excellent example of Gothic fiction, and has influenced such writers as Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Ray Bradbury....

Lucian Taylor, the hero, is damned either through contact with an erotically pagan "other" world or through something degenerate in his own nature, which he thinks of as a "faun". He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped....

Considered Machen’s most important and moving work, The Hill of Dreams tells the story of aspiring author Lucian Taylor and his fascination with a relic Roman fort ....

"The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen...

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was the pen name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic. Machen is best known as a writer in the supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction genres....

In the remote hills of deepest old England, Vaughn is worried when he discovers inexplicable changing symbols next to his home....

The Three Impostors (1895) by Arthur Machen is a combination of horror story and mystery novel. It features the likable detective, Dyson, who is somewhat pretentious and mostly ineffectual....