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This is a delight. Machen had existed on the fringes of the fringes of my literary knowledge: the kind of writer whose name one is unsure how to pronounce (it's "makken"); someone more referred to ...

"There is a certain tavern in the north-western parts of London which is so remote from the tracks of men and so securely hidden that few people have ever suspected its existence." You may easily ...

Welsh writer, Arthur Machen, invented the first ever urban myth, set in 1914, called 'Angel of Mons' The Welsh father of the mystery, imagination and modern horror genre was born 3 March 1863 at 33 ...

WHEN I was a very young writer, I came across the works of the Welsh mystic, Arthur Machen. It was just before the First World War; and during that false era of good feeling, people indulged ...

Shockingly, a straw poll among young authors yielded just two recognitions of Arthur Machen's name in a group of 20. In one sense, though, he was the Dan Brown of his time, creating elaborate Gothic ...

Clergyman's son Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a pioneer of fantasy and horror writing Fans of horror writer Arthur Machen have called on Newport council to protect the collection of his books and ...