Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen
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Overview: The stories in this volume concern the interpenetration between the material world and ‘the world on the other side of the dark curtain’. Drawn from the beginning and the end of Arthur Machen’s literary career, all these works reflect the author’s absorption with the wondrous, the uncanny and the unknown. If the reader so desires, these tales can be regarded as nothing more than bizarre and baroque entertainments—supernatural thrillers to set the pulse racing on nights by the winter fireside—but all possess a philosophical dimension and a genuine artistic creed. Sensational as some of them are, the best of Machen’s fantasy stories transcend the humble genre of the shocker and aspire to high art. Their uniqueness in literature led Vincent Starrett, Machen’s earliest champion, to acclaim him ‘a novelist of the soul’, an explorer of heights and depths undreamed of by writers of greater renown.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Contents:
INTRODUCTION by Roger Dobson
THE NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL (from The Three Impostors, published 1895 by John Lane)
THE NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER (from The Three Impostors, published 1895 by John Lane)
THE GREAT GOD PAN (from The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light, published 1894 by John Lane)
THE WHITE PEOPLE (from The House of Souls, published 1906 by E. Grant Richards)
THE INMOST LIGHT (from The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light, published 1894 by John Lane)
THE SHINING PYRAMID (from The Shining Pyramid, published 1925 by Martin Secker)
THE BOWMEN (from The Angel of Mons, published 1915 by Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co.)
THE GREAT RETURN (published 1915, by The Faith Press, London)
THE HAPPY CHILDREN (from The Shining Pyramid, published 1925 by Martin Secker)
THE BRIGHT BOY (from The Children of the Pool, published 1936 by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.)
OUT OF THE EARTH (from The Shining Pyramid, published 1925 by Martin Secker)
N (from The Cosy Room, published 1936 by Rich & Cowan)
THE CHILDREN OF THE POOL (from The Children of the Pool, published 1936 by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.)
THE TERROR (published 1917 by Duckworth & Co.)
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