Arthur Machen






Arthur Machen

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born
March 03, 1863

died
December 15, 1947

gender
male

place of birth
Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales, The United Kingdom

genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


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Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.




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The Great God Pan The Great God Pan
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 3.96 — 114 ratings — published 1926
23 editions
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The Three Imposters and Other... The Three Imposters and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 1 ( Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series)
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 4.02 — 51 ratings — published 2001
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The White People and Other Sto... The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (Call of Cthulhu Fiction Series, 6035)
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 4.20 — 45 ratings — published 2004
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The Hill of Dreams The Hill of Dreams
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 4.27 — 33 ratings — published 1922
19 editions
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The Three Impostors The Three Impostors
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 4.19 — 26 ratings — published 1895
9 editions
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The Great God Pan and The Hill... The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 4.00 — 20 ratings — published 2006
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Tales of Horror and the Supern... Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 4.06 — 17 ratings — published 1976
3 editions
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The Terror & Other Tales: Volu... The Terror & Other Tales: Volume 3 of The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2005
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The Terror The Terror
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published 1917
7 editions
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The White People The White People
by Arthur Machen
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 2004
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"And if I may pursue this subject farther I would suggest that the whole matter of imaginative literature depends upon this faculty of seeing the universe, from the aeonian pebble of the wayside to the raw suburban street as something new, unheard of, marvellous, finally, miraculous. The good people--amongst whom I naturally class myself--feel that everything is miraculous; they are continually amazed at the strangeness of the proportion of all things. The bad people, or scientists as they are sometimes called, maintain that nothing is properly an object of awe or wonder since everything can be explained. They are duly punished."
Arthur Machen (Far Off Things)
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"And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more"
Arthur Machen
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"We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils."
Arthur Machen (The Terror)
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