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	Arthur Machen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Machen (March 3, 1863 - March 30, 1947) was a Welsh-born author of fantasy and horror fiction.
		He is known most for his writing around the beginning of the 20th century, much of it composed in a quite short period in the 1890s.
		Many are clumsy satires on science, materialism and Protestantism, all of which were anathema to Machen's mystical, Catholic temperament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Machen (661 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| Arthur Machen
		Machen's famous tale about the ghostly intervention of the archers of Agincourt on a WWI battlefield; the tale (which includes a wonderfully weird vegetarian angle) took on a life of its own, with many people claiming to have actually seen the ghostly soldiers.
		Machen's repeated claims that the work was pure fiction did little to deter the popular sentiment that benevolent supernatural forces did indeed intervene on behalf of English soldiers.
		Machen also discusses his writing of the tale, and the public reception of it, in this introductory note.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/machen.html (626 words)

	The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more...
		Arthur Machen's most famous novel is The Great God Pan, originally published with the decidedly inferior The Inmost Light in 1894, and whilst it received terrible reviews in its day, it is now recognised by many as a major fantasy/horror novel.
		Machen's perception of Pan is as the leader of the satyrs, or fauns; creatures associated with Dionysus often depicted involved in orgies with nymphs in the woods.
		As a writer Machen attempted to capture in words the moment of rapture felt in a moment of higher consciousness and indeed he has the ability to create an atmosphere that evokes "that odd feeling one sometimes has in a dream, when fantastic cities and wondrous lands and phantom personages appear familiar and accustomed".
	www.thealienonline.net /columns/goe_nov03.asp?tid=7&scid=73&iid=2068 (1450 words)

	Memories of Arthur Machen by Anthony Lejeune
		Machen used to sit by the fire, puffing away at an evil-smelling pipe and sipping gin and pale ale.
		Machen's theatrical repertoire was not confined to Shakespeare.
		Machen, whose Inverness cloak, Lady Benson declared, was the one she remembered when he was in the Benson Company, made a speech in his perfect manner that much affected his hearers.
	www.angelfire.com /art2/frankhyde/joan/pagesj/heads.html (2255 words)

	Interpenetrations
		Machen was born and brought up in rural Gwent, and lived and worked for most of his life in London.
		This also ties in with Machen's apparent belief in a Platonic view of the universe: that the 'real' world as seen and experienced is in fact only the shadow of an invisible and unknowable true reality.
		Machen sought ecstasy, that ekstasis, being 'put out of place' which brings the boundary experience home at the deepest level, and makes the world and life within it into a place of darkness and glory, coexisting.
	www.waldeneast.fsnet.co.uk /interpenetrations.htm (1974 words)

	Arthur Edward Waite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Edward Waite (October 2, 1857 - May 19, 1942) was an occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.
		Waite was a prolific author of occult texts on subjects including divination, Rosicrucianism, freemasonry, fl and ceremonial magic, Kabbalism and alchemy; he also translated and reissued several important mystical and alchemical works.
		His works on the Holy Grail, influnced by his friendship with Arthur Machen, were particularly notable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Edward_Waite (290 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Pan's people
		Whatever it was that Arthur Machen encountered in the Welsh woods one long-ago summer, it utterly changed his life.
		The sudden decline of his young wife, Amy, diagnosed with cancer, spurred the creation of The White People, one of Machen's finest stories and an acknowledged masterpiece of supernatural fiction, an unsettling first-person narrative depicting a child on the cusp of puberty and her fatal communion with the inhabitants of faeryland.
		This tale of the ghostly archers of Agincourt coming to the aid of the retreating tommies was retold by a nurse on the western front to cheer her wounded charges, and was repeated orally from one soldier to the next until it found its way back to the British papers as a statement of fact.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,1339124,00.html (783 words)

	A Machen Review of Clark Ashton Smith By Scott Connors
		Machen later referred to this period as the "prostitution of the soul," because as Sweetser observed "for the first time in many years he had to work at the direction of an outside force rather than in conformance with certain subjective standards" [1].
		Machen, however, did not share this particular worldlier, being essentially a mystically-inclined Anglo-Catholic with a desire to penetrate the mysteries of the sacraments whereby man might achieve reunion with the Godhead, something which Lovecraft later recognized.
		Machen's urging of Smith "to admire above all simplicity and lucidity" is surprising in light of Machen's own style, which is certainly closer to that of Smith than, say, that of Theodore Dreiser or Ernest Hemingway, but this may also have disappointed Smith.
	eldritchdark.com /bio/machen_review_of_clark_ashton_smith.html (1741 words)

	Arthur Machen
		Machen was also an essayist, journalist, Shakespearean actor, occultist (he was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn along with Blackwood, Yeats, Aleister Crowley, and Machen's friend A.E. Waite), and a translator (of Cassanova's Memoirs, Beroalde de Verville's Moyen de Parvenir (Fantastic Tales), and the Heptameron of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre).
		Arthur Machen Pages by John Howard consists of three essays: "The Secret and the Secrets: A look at Machen's theory of literature", "A World of Great Majesty: The pattern in Arthur Machen's carpet", and "Interpenetrations: Boundary imagery in the Works of Arthur Machen".
		A Bibliography of Arthur Machen by Adrian Goldstone and Wesley Sweetser, The University of Texas (Austin, Texas 1965; revised 1973).
	alangullette.com /lit/machen (1044 words)

	Alibris: Arthur Machen
		Arthur Machen's novel made a huge impact in 1890 with this tale that literally caused a furor in London by readers who believed the horrific events he described were real.
		Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos.
		Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer of the spirit.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Arthur_Machen (957 words)

	Lewis H. Machen Family Papers (Library of Congress)
		Machen, oldest son of Lewis and prominent Baltimore lawyer, are the principal figures in this family correspondence.
		Minnie married Arthur W. Machen in 1873, and many of his letters to her are present in the Gresham Family series.
		Following Minnie's marriage to Arthur Machen in 1873, and for the years of her residence in Baltimore, the papers consist largely of letters she received from her husband, family, and friends.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/machen.html (2087 words)

	AllRefer.com - Arthur Machen (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Arthur Machen, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		Arthur Machen[mak´un] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1947, English author, b.
		Machen achieved transient fame during World War I with "The Bowman," a tale relating how St. George and his ghostly archers rescue the British army and slaughter the Germans.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Machen-A.html (214 words)

	Life of Arthur Machen by John Gawsworth, published by Tartarus Press
		In the 1930s Arthur Machen was approaching the end of his long literary odyssey when the poet John Gawsworth cast himself as his Boswell.
		Machen's joyous days as a 'strolling player' are contrasted with his troubled time as the star reporter on the London Evening News, as he watched in astonishment as his minor tale 'The Bowmen' blossomed into the enduring wartime legend of the Angels of Mons.
		Then, in the 1920s, Machen was transformed into a cult figure in the United States and acclaimed as an artistic genius by authors such as Vincent Starrett, James Branch Cabell and Ben Hecht.
	freepages.pavilion.net /tartarus/gawsworthlife.htm (358 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Three Imposters and Other Stories: Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen v. 1 (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Arthur Machen's "The Three Imposters" and "The Great God Pan" (both contained in this volume) are held in almost reverential regard in the world of fantasy fiction.
		Machen's works, and especially this novel, are essential reading for anyone who appreciates stylish occult horror over the merely grotesque.
		Machen was one of the great masters of macabre and fantasy literature and it's a crime that his works aren't more available.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1568821328 (1244 words)

	Supernatural Fiction Database, Arthur Machen
		Arthur Machen was born in Caerleon-on-Usk in South Wales, and looked back upon his youth in this part of the Gwent border country as an inspiration for much of his writing.
		Much to his chagrin, Machen's pot-boiling short story "The Bowmen" became the origin of the "Angels of Mons" myth in the First World War.
		Arthur Machen is often categorised as a "horror" writer, but this is perhaps as misleading as the suggestion that he wrote ghost stories (only three or four of his tales involve ghosts).
	homepages.pavilion.co.uk /users/tartarus/m2.htm (1400 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Great God Pan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Machen, much like a Nicholas Roeg film or the Lovecraft mythology, only hints at the unspeakable horrors in "Great God Pan" and therein lies the novel's strength, short and negligable as it may seem.
		Dark Pagan Horror is what Machen delivers, and he does so with such a style, elegance (at least the Castilian translation, I still have to read the originals in English, but I am assuming the originals are much better) and wit, you just can't help but to stay with it until you are done.
		Machen tells his story through an intriguing structure that slowly reveals the true horror behind a string of socialite murders.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1587155974 (737 words)

	arthur machen: geniusessays.com- genius essays, genius book reports, genius research papers, genius term papers
		King Arthur begins as a hero; he is already endowed with the qualities of a hero when he becomes a king, at least in some versions of the myth.
		In one version of the story, Arthur’s mother, Ingraine, conceived Arthur by Uther while she was married to another man, the Duke Gorlios of Cornwall.
		On geniusessays.com there are hundreds of free essay abstracts written by your fellow college students on arthur machen.
	www.geniusessays.com /term-papers/484/arthur-machen.html (365 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Angel of Mons
		Arthur Machen was born in 1863 in Wales.
		As Machen himself once said, the more outrageous the lie, the more likely it is to be believed: Tony Kaye's friend and neighbour Marlon Brando was said to be keen to star in a drama alongside the original footage of the Angel in a film that would possess all the ingredients of a Titanic-style blockbuster.
		During his lifetime, Arthur Machen could not persuade the public that the story of the "Angel of Mons" was a fiction derived from his own pen.
	www.sfsite.com /04b/um150.htm (579 words)

	The Weird Review: The White People
		Machen was of course informed on these influences, both by inclination & through his work in 1885 as a rare book cataloger, of which books on these & similar subjects formed a major part.
		Machen contended that one should be good in order to be Christian, not the reverse.
		Machen mentions, in a letter to John Lane Publishers regarding their suggestions to "cut" portions of "The Great God Pan" (Arthur Machen: Selected Letters, Aquarian Press, 1988, p.
	www.violetbooks.com /REVIEWS/rbadac-numinous.html (2645 words)

	Arthur Machen (1925) by M.P. Shiel
		But Machen is of the scholar-artist type, the Milton type, with a remembering habit of mind, not of the scientists artist type, trained in perceiving, of this type the sole representative so far being Goethe, whose like, when next he comes, will renew all things--such as Wells, Verne, being just shadows cast before his coming.
		But for the scholar-artist type see Machen who quotes with approval Rossetti's remark, "I neither know nor care whether the earth goes round the sun"--which is the first remark that a cow would make between two chews the moment it got the gift of speech.
		And he argues; anon he is even Socratic: and his pretty bubble of argument can as easily be pricked by an intellect really modern as any of the good Socrates': indeed, in tone of soul and mental outfit he is very like Plato.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ca /remachen.htm (1011 words)

	Tales Of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen - an infinity plus review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		To Machen, and particularly so in his supernatural fiction, the journey towards the sublime and unearthly, the internal or external movement towards inexplicable nightmares or truths too horrible to behold were the whole and sum of the narrative experience.
		Perhaps one of the greatest stigmata attached to the author's writing was critics' placement of him alongside the decadents for his shocking treatment of sexuality and unapologetic depictions of pagan-like instincts in the socially and imaginatively rigid moral temperamental structure of the Victorian mind.
		First published in the influential Keynote series, Machen's "The Great God Pan" was and remains a shocker of implied sexual excess, the paradoxical freedom and dangers of animalistic impulses, the emotional effects of horror, and humankind's frailty in the yawning possibility of the unknown.
	www.iplus.zetnet.co.uk /nonfiction/horrorandthesupernatural.htm (741 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Three Imposters and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 1 ( Call of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Arthur Machen (1863-1947), an English author best known for his eerie stories about supernatural creatures and situations, served as a major influence on later explorers of the macabre.
		The only work that I had previously known by Arthur Machen was "The Great God Pan", which has shown up in so many anthologies that I am thoroughly sick of it, although it is a good read the first few times through.
		arthur machen most times only hints at what's going on, maybe letting some character come with a theory (this is what I mean by scientific).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568821328?v=glance (2628 words)

	William F. Gekle Collection of Arthur Machen
		The William F. Gekle Collection of Arthur Machen consists of correspondence and miscellaneous material relating to the Welsh translator, novelist, and storywriter Arthur Machen (1863-1947) that was collected by the American businessman and author William Francis Gekle.
		Included are letters by James Branch Cabell, August Derleth, Arthur Machen (four letters), Charles Parsons, Paul Seybolt, Vincent Starrett, Edwin Steffe, and Joseph Kelly Vodrey, as well as a separate section of Vodrey's correspondence.
		Also present are a few images of Machen (one photograph), bibliographies of his works, material on the Arthur Machen Society, reviews and publicity matter for Gekle's work Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy (1949), a pamphlet entitled "A Machen Miscellany" (1957) by Gekle, and other miscellanea.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/gekle (583 words)

	Arthur Machen
		In fact there is much more to Machen than that: notably his masterpiece "The Hill of Dreams".....
		He recalled that an aunt had once told him that the Llewellyn Davies family were related to Machen through his London cousins called Jones.
		Du Maurier was first cousin to the Llewellyn Davies boys and probably spent the summers with them in the country as was the custom in Edwardian middle-class families.
	www.caerleon.net /history/machen/text/page4.html (594 words)

	Friends of Arthur Machen Homepage Index: Horror Fantastic and Supernatural Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Machen's work, both fiction and non-fiction, enjoyed high prestige both in Britain and America in the early part of this century, but the rise of modernist taste in fiction led to something of an eclipse of his reputation.
		is a fellowship which exists to foster interest in Machen and his work, to aid research, and for the pleasure of its members.
		This site is maintained by Adrian Eckersley, who is interested in all aspects of Machen's life and work, and other writing in the same traditions.
	www.machensoc.demon.co.uk (217 words)

	Friends of Arthur Machen - Information: Horror Fantastic and Supernatural Fiction
		The Friends of Arthur Machen grew out of the remains of the British Arthur Machen Society, which was originally formed in the 1980s.
		The Friends of Arthur Machen has a written constitution, and holds regular meetings which all members may attend if they so wish.
		Contents are both articles of interest to admirers of Machen and examples of his work, often articles and pieces not easily available in any other form.
	www.machensoc.demon.co.uk /machsoc.html (453 words)

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