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Book Synopsis The Man who Collected Machen by : Mark Samuels
Download or read book The Man who Collected Machen written by Mark Samuels and published by Chomu Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cryptic and potent languages, bizarre cults, mysteries that span the gulf between life and death, occult influences that reverberate through history like a dying echo, irresistible cosmic decay, forces of nightmare that distort reality itself, gateways to worlds where esoteric knowledge rots the future. Here is a collection of tales that forms a veritable Rosetta Stone for scholars of cosmic wonder and terror"--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis The Novel of the White Powder by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book The Novel of the White Powder written by Arthur Machen and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Novel of the White Powder” is a short story by Welsh author Arthur Machan, first published in his novel “The Three Imposters” (1895). The story concerns a man whose behaviour alters dramatically as the result a change in his prescription. However, even though some of these changes are indubitably for the better, his sister remains sceptical—and with good reason. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella “The Great God Pan” (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories ever written in the English language. Other notable fans of his gruesome tales include William Butler Yeats and Arthur Conan Doyle; and his work has been compared to that of Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Book Synopsis THE THREE IMPOSTORS or The Transmutations by : ARTHUR MACHEN
Download or read book THE THREE IMPOSTORS or The Transmutations written by ARTHUR MACHEN and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Age of Decayed Futurity by : Mark Samuels
Download or read book The Age of Decayed Futurity written by Mark Samuels and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past two decades, British author Mark Samuels has written some of the most vibrant and challenging weird fiction of any contemporary writer. But his work--collected in such volumes as The White Hands and Other Weird Tales (2003), The Man Who Collected Machen (2010), and Written in Darkness (2014)--has by and large appeared in limited editions not widely distributed in the United States. This volume features seventeen of Samuels's best weird stories. Several display his fascination with technology, advertising, and urban horror, as in "Apartment 205" and the title story. Other tales speak of the writing of weird fiction itself as a potentially hazardous and supernatural enterprise, as in "The White Hands" and "Vrolyck." In several of his lengthier narratives--notably "The Gentleman from Mexico" and "The Crimson Fog"--Samuels draws upon H. P. Lovecraft's pseudomythology to venture into realms of cosmic horror. "The Black Mould" and "My World Has No Memories" are distinctively existential tales of undeniable potency. Mark Samuels is one of the pioneering weird writers of today, and this selection makes plain why he has few rivals in the portrayal of the horrors that are unique to our troubled age.
Book Synopsis The Hill of Dreams by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book The Hill of Dreams written by Arthur Machen and published by Bibliotech Press. This book was released on 1907 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)
Download or read book The Inmost Light written by Arthur Machen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Machen's "The Inmost Light" is a chilling tale of horror and the supernatural. This English horror story delves deep into the realms of the paranormal, gripping readers with its eerie narrative. Machen's mastery in crafting suspenseful tales is evident throughout. The story's dark undertones and unexpected twists ensure a haunting reading experience.
Book Synopsis The Novel of the Black Seal by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book The Novel of the Black Seal written by Arthur Machen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Novel of the Black Seal" by Arthur Machen is a classic tale that delves into the mysterious and the unknown. Machen's signature style of blending the supernatural with the mundane is evident in this work, making it a captivating read for those who enjoy tales that challenge the boundaries of reality.
Download or read book Great Weird Tales written by S. T. Joshi and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 spellbinding tales, including "The Sin Eater," by Fiona McLeod, "The Eye Above the Mantel," by Frank Belknap Long, as well as renowned works by R. H. Barlow, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, W. C. Morrow and eight other masters of the genre.
Book Synopsis Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes by : Mark Samuels
Download or read book Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes written by Mark Samuels and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten critically acclaimed weird fiction stories by the author of THE WHITE HANDS AND OTHER WEIRD TALES, THE FACE OF TWILIGHT, THE MAN WHO COLLECTED MACHEN and WRITTEN IN DARKNESS.
Book Synopsis Written in Darkness by : Mark Samuels
Download or read book Written in Darkness written by Mark Samuels and published by Chomu Press. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine tales are apocalyptic in the truest sense--they lift the veil and uncover what is hidden. Europe decays, but the Bloody Baron's spirit will not rest. A lone yachtsman is becalmed at sea, and confronts madness, or something greater than madness. A condemned office building is besieged by the forces of transcendent decay. In the city of exiles, an unguessable secret awaits. These and other strange encounters, intrusions and transformations are to be found within the pages of this volume, Written in Darkness.
Book Synopsis The White People Illustrated by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book The White People Illustrated written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The White People" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s, it was first published in 1904 in Horlick's Magazine, edited by Machen's friend A. E. Waite, then reprinted in Machen's collection The House of Souls (1906).The story has since been described as an important example of horror fiction, influencing generations of later writers.
Book Synopsis Collected Fiction Volume 1 by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book Collected Fiction Volume 1 written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is one of the towering figures in the Golden Age of weird fiction, and his novels and tales have influenced generations of weird writers and remain immensely popular among readers. But much of his work has been difficult to obtain, remaining buried in obscure magazines and newspapers of a century ago or published in expensive limited editions. This is the first edition of Machen's fiction to be based on a thorough examination of his manuscripts and early publications. It is also the first edition to arrange Machen's fiction chronologically by date of writing. This first volume contains his charming picaresque novel The Chronicle of Clemendy (1888), an exquisite imitation of the medieval narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio. At this time Machen was a young journalist who had moved from his native Wales to London, and he wrote a number of humorous and slightly risqué sketches for fashionable London magazines. But then he published "The Great God Pan" (1894), one of the pioneering works in the entire range of weird fiction. It was condemned by contemporary reviewers as the work of a diseased mind. Machen followed it up with the episodic novel The Three Impostors (1895), containing the brilliant segments "The Novel of the Black Seal" (which features the Little People, a sub-human race lurking on the edges of civilization), "The Novel of the White Powder," and other vivid narratives. The edition has been prepared by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction and the author of The Weird Tale (1990) and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). Joshi has prepared textually corrected editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.
Book Synopsis The Great God Pan Illustrated by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book The Great God Pan Illustrated written by Arthur Machen and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Collected Arthur Machen by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book The Collected Arthur Machen written by Arthur Machen and published by Ronald P Frye & Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales by : Douglas Allen Anderson
Download or read book H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales written by Douglas Allen Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the roots of modern horror by reading the master's favorite stories, those which inspired, awed, and scared him! This is the only collection in print of stories selected by H. P. Lovecraft himself"--Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Dreads and Drolls by : Arthur Machen
Download or read book Dreads and Drolls written by Arthur Machen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreads and Drolls Arthur Machen This volume contains sixty studies, mostly from real life, each of which, by its capacity for inspiring terror or causing amused wonder, qualifies as the 'Dread' or 'Droll' of Arthur Machen's general heading. 'To be able so to tell the bare truth that it seems a magnificent lie' is the qualification which has attracted Machen to the most outstanding of his narrations. When Dreads and Drolls was first published in 1926 it contained twenty-nine articles reprinted from London's The Graphic. We have great pleasure in more than doubling that number by including all of his contributions from that magazine. To 'The Euston Square Mystery', 'The Adventure of the Long-Lost Brother' and others we have been able to add 'A Castle in Celtic Myths', 'A Pretty Parricide', 'One Night When I Was Frightened' and many more. There is a tendency towards the re-telling of notable eighteenth-century crimes among these 'Dreads' and 'Drolls', but Machen also manages to illuminate such a wide range of subjects as the Holy Grail, the 'Little People' and cookery. In this entertaining and diverse collection of essays, Machen manages to show how little human nature has changed through the centuries. We can admire Machen, in the words he uses to commend Grimaldi, as a man with an 'admirable scent for mystery and capacity of creating it'. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Book Synopsis The Whisperer in Darkness by : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Download or read book The Whisperer in Darkness written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.
