CC M149
Arthur Machen
MACHEN, Arthur, 1863–1947
- Born
- 3 March 1863, Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales (born Arthur Llewellyn Jones)
- Died
- 15 December 1947, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
- Note
- Welsh writer of mystic and weird fiction; London journalist and translator.
Influence
The Great God Pan (1894) fixed a pattern of the 1890s: a scientific or occult experiment tears a veil, and something older than Christianity walks in London. The book’s decadent notoriety and its pagan-survival theme feed Robert W. Chambers’s forbidden play in The King in Yellow and, later, Lovecraft’s accounts of knowledge that damages the knower. Later folk horror still works from Machen’s map.
Launch bibliography
| Title | Form | First publication | Call number | Where to read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Great God Pan | Novella | First published in book form as The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1894). | WF M149.G74 1894 |
Reading Room |
| The White People | Novelette | First published in Horlick’s Magazine, January 1904; collected in The House of Souls (London: E. Grant Richards, 1906). | FR ANC M149.W45 1904 |
Founders’ Room, Ancestors |
Where to read
In this Library: The Great God Pan (Reading Room) and The White People (Founders’ Room). Return to the Reading Room, the Ancestors tray, or the Card Catalog.