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“When one knows, as I do, that time and space are identical and that they are both deceptive because they are merely imperfect manifestations of a higher reality, one no longer seeks in the visible world for an explanation of the mystery and terror of being.”
― Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
― Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
“each of Dunsany’s works must be studied individually for the philosophy imbedded in it.”
― The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft
― The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft
“Like Lovecraft, like Machen, Dunsany claimed aesthetic independence from his time and culture, became a sharp and unrelenting critic of the industrialism and plebeianism that were shattering the beauty both of literature and of the world, wrote works almost obtrusively and aggressively unpopular in tone and import yet retained a surprising popularity—at least in terms of the sale of his work—through the whole of his career.”
― The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft
― The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft
“We’re not supposed to come back when we’re dead. There’s no science we’ve figured out to explain it.”
― The Dispatcher
― The Dispatcher
“Some think highly of The Terror, but it is in fact quite bad. The American magazine The Century printed a shortened version of the short novel—reduced to a mere quarter of its size—which is a significant improvement on the original; and it would be rather better for Machen’s reputation if this version were better known.”
― The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft
― The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft
Weird Fiction
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