The Novel of the White Powder
The Novel of the White Powder

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 152878524X

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“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.

A Fragment of Life
A Fragment of Life

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13:

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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 Man who Collected Machen
The Man who Collected Machen

Author: Mark Samuels

Publisher: Chomu Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781907681059

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"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.

The Great Return
The Great Return

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: VM eBooks

Published: 2016-01-30

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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Table of Contents Published by VM eBook CHAPTER I THE RUMOUR OF THE MARVELLOUS CHAPTER II ODOURS OF PARADISE CHAPTER III A SECRET IN A SECRET PLACE CHAPTER IV THE RINGING OF THE BELL CHAPTER V THE ROSE OF FIRE CHAPTER VI OLWEN'S DREAM CHAPTER VII THE MASS OF THE SANGRAAL

The Shining Pyramid
The Shining Pyramid

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-02-13

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 1633558568

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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 Novel of the Black Seal
The Novel of the Black Seal

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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"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.

The Works of Arthur Machen
The Works of Arthur Machen

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2012-11-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781481007542

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Decadent, perverse and unreal, the strange stories of Arthur Machen uncover a lingering, ancestral horror, distantly remembered in the language of fairy tales, pagan lore, and in the secret old games that nurses teach to children. Deeply controversial in their own time, some of Machen's stories had to wait decades to for changing social mores to permit their publication. This new collection by Lowood Press combines all of Machen's most celebrated works in one volume. Herein are his greatest short stories, including The White People, The Great God Pan, The Bowmen and The Shining Pyramid; his semi-autobiographical novel, Hill of Dreams; and the original, complete version of The Three Impostors, with its interconnecting tales of occult intrigue. An unrivaled master of sacred terror and pioneer of the weird fiction genre, Machen's work has directly influenced such notable horror writers as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Stephen King-but it has yet to be surpassed.

The Three Impostors
The Three Impostors

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: Bibliotech Press

Published: 1895

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations is an episodic horror novel by British writer Arthur Machen, first published in 1895 in The Bodley Head's Keynote Series. It was revived in paperback by Ballantine Books as the forty-eighth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1972. The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a final denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London-relating the aforementioned weird tales in the process-as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: "the young man with spectacles". (wikipedia.org)

Arthur Machen Collected Works: 23 Tales of Horror and Other Fiction Short Stories
Arthur Machen Collected Works: 23 Tales of Horror and Other Fiction Short Stories

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher:

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9781479200481

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"Arthur Machen Collected Works" is a collection of 23 horror tales and Other Fiction Short Stories by Arthur Machen. This is the biggest collection available in a reprint. Included in this collection:1. The Great God Pan 2. The Shining Pyramid The Three Imposters 3. The Novel of the Black Seal 4. The Novel of the White Powder 5. The Red Hand 6. The Hill of Dreams 7. The White People The Angels of Mons 8. The Bowmen 9. The Soldiers' Rest 10. The Monstrance 11. The Dazzling Light 12. The Bowmen And Other Noble Ghosts 13. The Inmost Light 14. A Fragment of Life 15. The Secret Glory 16. The Terror 17. Dr. Duthoit's Vision 18. Out of the Earth 19. The Great Return 20. Far Off Things 21. Hieroglyphics 22. A Double Return 23. The Lost Club Book is properly formatted and text is fully hand typed. It is not made based on scans which are prone to have a lot of typos and errors.

Shadows of Carcosa
Shadows of Carcosa

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1590179439

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From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to H. P. Lovecraft’s accursed New England hills, this collection features some of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre. The collection includes the following twelve stories: Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a Bottle" Bram Stoker, "The Squaw" Ambrose Bierce, "Moxon's Master" Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing" Ambrose Bierce, "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" R. W. Chambers, "The Repairer of Reputations" M. P. Shiel, "The House of Sounds" Arthur Machen, "The White People" Algernon Blackwood, "The Willows" Henry James, "The Jolly Corner" Walter de la Mare, "Seaton's Aunt" H. P. Lovecraft, "The Colour Out of Space" “The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.”—H. P. Lovecraft