Faunus: The Journal Of The Friends Of Arthur Machen no 40

by James Machin (Editor)

The Friends of Arthur Machen grew out of the remains of the British Arthur Machen Society, originally formed in the 1980s. The Friends of Arthur Machen undertakes regular publications, available to all members, has a written constitution, and holds regular meetings which all members may attend if they so wish.

To foster familiarity with Machen's work, both through 'in house' publication and through acting as a point of information about matters such as the availability of texts and critical work.

58 pages, Hardcover

First published November 5, 2019

Reviews

[Karl]

Faunus Autumn 2019 Number Forty
This Hardcover is copy 380 of 500 produced
The Journal of the Friends pf Arthur Machen

Contents:

001 - Editorial by James Machen
003 – “Cerlon and it’s Relics”
007 – “Sudden Sunlight: Connections between the Roman Visions of Arthur Machen and Philip K.Philip K. Dick” by Jonathan Preece
025 – “Collecting Arthur Machen” by R. B. Russell
033 – “”Some Notes for an Essay on Arthur Machen” by Ibrhim Ineke
041 – In The Footsteps of Nennius” by Iain Smith
045 – “The Machenogion II – The Third Millennium: A Chronicle of the Great Arthur Machen Revival 2000 – 2019” by Isin Smith
048 – biographical Notes

[Forrest · Rating 5 out of 5]

As always, Faunus contains erudite scholarship on Machen's work, but the essay comparing PKD's VALIS and Machen's Hill of Dreams is next-level intellectual history in the making. One of the best comparative essays I have read in many, many years.

[Alex Sarll]

More Machenalia, much of it very much aimed at the already devoted (a continuing history of the fandom; a brief piece on the most obscure and hard-to-find works by a writer who's already quite obscure to start with). But one which might have wider interest picks up on the correspondences between his work and Philip K Dick's, something I never noticed despite getting into both around the same time. It's true, both of them were obsessed with piercing the veil, yet uncertain what they might find there – but it turns out it goes deeper than that. The Empire never ended.