arthur machen

  1. Extollager

    Machen Rarities; Books Around Machen Series

    There's a great deal of activity at Darkly Bright going on. 1.Every week, Darkly Bright publishes rare items by Arthur Machen. Some of these are ephemeral, but often there is some element of authentic interest for the Machen enthusiast, and his personality usually comes through. These entries...
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    Arthur Machen miscellany MIST AND MYSTERY (2022) from Darkly Bright Press

    Darkly Bright is a website and publisher with a strong emphasis on Arthur Machen's writings, notably works that have not been reprinted since their original appearance or that are likely to be unfamiliar. Site manager Christopher Tompkins publishes articles about Machen occasionally, as well...
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    Arthur Machen Comments on Algernon Blackwood (a personal acquaintance)

    https://darklybrightpress.com/machen-on-blackwood/ I'd have liked to see Machen develop the nuances of his own understanding of nature, since this piece by itself doesn't catch some of the elements to be see elsewhere in his writing.
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    Arthur Machen and H. G. Wells in Conversation

    Two of the greatest and most seminal imaginative writers sit back and talk about mundane (mostly) topics prior to World War I. https://darklybrightpress.com/a-quiet-talk-with-mr-h-g-wells/
  5. Die Math

    Rank Your 10 Favorite Arthur Machen Stories

    Following my first attempt to request rankings of the stories of Algernon Blackwood, I figured that it’s time to give Arthur Machen a go. In this thread, please rank your ten favorite Arthur Machen stories. Your favorite story should be numbered 1, while your less preferred stories should ascend...
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    Listen to Arthur Machen! (He makes a lot of sense.)

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    Arthur Machen: Man Is Made a Mystery 4: Green Round, N, Exalted Omega, Tree of Life, more

    With regard to Machen’s last novel – so to call it because it is a prose fiction too long to be a novella – Dr. Reiter sympathizes with the consensus that sees The Green Round as a failure. Having read it with enjoyment five times, I’m interested in how to account for the appeal of an old man’s...
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    Arthur Machen: Man Is Made a Mystery 3: Fragment of Life, Secret Glory, Great Return, Bowmen, etc.

    See the two earlier discussions for the first two chapters of Dr. Geoffrey Reiter's dissertation, discussing such well-known horror stories as "The Great God Pan" and "The Novel of the Black Seal" Arthur Machen: Man Is Made a Mystery 1: Great God Pan, White Powder, Inmost Light, Black Seal and...
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    Arthur Machen: Man Is Made a Mystery 2: Ornaments in Jade, Hill of Dreams, White People

    Chapter 3 of Geoffrey Reiter's dissertation https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/bitstream/handle/2104/8049/Geoffrey_Reiter_phd.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y deals with these works and Hieroglyphics, a critical study cast in the form of a narrative. In this phase of Machen's creativity, roughly...
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    Arthur Machen: Man Is Made a Mystery 1: Great God Pan, White Powder, Inmost Light, Black Seal

    We begin our review of Arthur Machen's oeuvre and life as discussed by Geoffrey Reiter in the readable dissertation below. Please let your comments be based on Reiter as well as your reading of the Machen stories listed in the title. Discussion of the stories apart from Reiter's comments might...
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    Arthur Machen: "Man Is Made a Mystery" Study to be launched

    Within the next few weeks, in the Classic SF & F area of Chrons Classic SF&F you'll be welcomed to participate in a conversation about a dissertation that I have discovered on the entire career of Arthur Machen, the noted horror writer. The dissertation is here...
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    Arthur Machen Rarity Duds and Dulls

    The 90th Anniversary of Arthur Machen’s Duds and Dulls In 1924, Spurr and Swift published Precious Balms, a compilation of reviews, mostly unfavorable, of Machen’s books, a 250-copy edition signed by Machen. Such was the success of the book that the publisher clamoured for a successor. In...
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    Literary Forbears of Arthur Machen

    Arthur Machen, commonly called a horror writer and mystic, will need no introduction, for many Chronsfolk. Herewith I invite discussion of the following authors, seen as writers from whose works Arthur Machen drew nourishment. If necessary I will just talk to myself here, but I hope very much...
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    Penguin, Joshi, del Toro "do" Machen

    Been out of touch with what's going on lately, but in looking at some of Wilum's vlogs, I came across one featuring S. T. Joshi talking about some of his upcoming projects, one of which is a very nice Penguin edition of Arthur Machen...
  15. Fried Egg

    Arthur Machen, Thoughts?

    I thought there was a thread for this author around here somewhere but I can't seem to find it? If there is, I have no objection to this thread being merged. I finally got around to reading "The Three Imposters and Other Stories (The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Vol. 1)" Here is...
  16. Sargeant_Fox

    Arthur Machen: The Three Impostors & Other Stories

    I had come across Arthur Machen’s name several times before I read The Great God Pan last year. He popped up alongside Blackwood and Lovecraft when I looked for good classics, and I had by then read all the nice things Jorge Luis Borges wrote about his work. I found ‘Pan’ a fine read; besides...
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    For the Arthur Machen fans:

    Looks like there's a new volume of Machen's non-fiction coming out from Tartarus Press: The Secret of the Sangraal and Other Writings: Tartarus Press News There may not be many interested, but just in case, though I'd let you know. They do have some other books by Machen in print, for those...
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