The Terror: A Mystery

The Terror: A Mystery PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465539905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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The Terror: A Mystery

The Terror: A Mystery PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465539905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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The London Adventure

The London Adventure PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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A Fragment of Life

A Fragment of Life PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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A Fragment of Life is a fantasy novella by Arthur Machen. Machen was an author and mystic known for his prominent paranormal, fantasy, and horror fiction. Excerpt: "So, day after day, he lived in the grey phantasmal world, akin to death, that has, somehow, with most of us, made good its claim to be called life. To Darnell the true life would have seemed madness, and when, now and again, the shadows and vague images reflected from its splendour fell across his path, he was afraid, and took refuge in what he would have called the sane 'reality' of common and usual incidents and interests. His absurdity was, perhaps, the more evident, inasmuch as 'reality' for him was a matter of kitchen ranges, of saving a few shillings; but in truth the folly would have been greater if it had been concerned with racing stables, steam yachts, and the spending of many thousand pounds."

The House of Souls

The House of Souls PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752411953
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Reproduction of the original: The House of Souls by Arthur Machen

The Hill of Dreams

The Hill of Dreams PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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The Hill of Dreams is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Welsh writer Arthur Machen. The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Later, the novel describes Lucian's attempts to make a living as an author in London, enduring poverty and suffering in the pursuit of art and history. The Hill of Dreams was little noticed on its publication in 1907 save in a glowing review by Alfred Douglas. It was actually written between 1895 and 1897 and has elements of the style of the decadent and aesthetic movement of the period, seen through Machen's own mystical preoccupations. (wikipedia.org)

The Green Round

The Green Round PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872621463
Category : Horror tales, English
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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The Shining Pyramid

The Shining Pyramid PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633558568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. Machen's later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings, but for him investigations into mysteries invariably resulted in life-changing transformation and sacrifice. Machen loved the medieval world view because he felt it combined deep spirituality alongside a rambunctious earthiness.

THE THREE IMPOSTORS or The Transmutations

THE THREE IMPOSTORS or The Transmutations PDF Author: ARTHUR MACHEN
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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The Three Imposters is a strange little book, a narrative about a secret society's efforts to retrieve a Roman coin ("The Gold Tiberius"), but this "novel" appears to be little more than a convenient device for telling a series of marvelous, horrific tales. Two of these tales--"The Novel of the Black Seal" and "The Novel of the White Powder"--are first-class works of imaginative fiction, and the entire book itself is entrancing, reminiscent of Stevenson's New Arabian Nights in its descriptions of London--conveyed in musical, Swinburneian prose--make of this nineteenth century metropolis something as exotic and fantastic as the Baghdad of Haroun al-Rashid. In addition, this collection contains not only two short stories but also the novella "The Great God Pan," one of the acknowledged classics of the weird tale. Its Chinese box structure--the horror revealed in fragments, in various voices, with lacunae which must be supplied by the reader--makes the narrative all the more compelling and terrifying in its obliqueness. (Lovecraft used this structure as his model for "The Call of Cthulhu.") "The Great God Pan" has an interesting plot as well, in that it is an inversion of the Ripper murders which occurred only a few years before. Instead of lower-class women murdered in the slums by an unknown male slasher, we have wealthy young men committing suicide in the most fashionable sections of London--and this time a mysterious woman seems to be involved.

The Great God Pan Illustrated

The Great God Pan Illustrated PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The Great God Pan is a horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the magazine The Whirlwind in 1890. Machen later extended The Great God Pan and it was published as a book alongside another story, "The Inmost Light", in 1894. The novella begins with an experiment to allow a woman named Mary to see the supernatural world. This is followed by an account of a series of mysterious happenings and deaths over many years surrounding a woman named Helen Vaughan. At the end, the heroes confront Helen and force her to kill herself. She undergoes a series of supernatural transformations before dying and she is revealed to be the child of Mary and the god Pan.

The Great Return

The Great Return PDF Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Great Return" by Arthur Machen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.