Arthur Machen's long career was diverse in both interest and achievement. Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s as an aesthete, he later became a master of the horror tale, moved on to create almost single...
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Arthur Machen's works cannot be classified as novels in the usual sense. The greatest body of his canon consists of essays and supernatural tales. The common chord, however, that runs throughout is th...
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Not only is Arthur Machen remembered for his supernatural war story about Anglo-Saxon archers, "The Bowmen" (published in 1914 in The Evening News), and as an important influence on modern fantasy wri...
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In the following excerpt, the reviewer outlines the plot of Machen's short novel The Terror.
In a recent number of the Yale Review was an entertainingly irresponsible paper by Katharine Full...
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Sweetser is an American educator and critic. In the essay below, he discusses the defining characteristics of Machen 's fiction.
Of all the fields in which Man vies for immortality the liter...
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In the essay below, Nash analyzes Arthurian elements in Machen 's The Great Return and contends that the short novel also contains themes characteristic of Machen 's supernatural tales.
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Klein is considered one of the leading American authors of supernatural fiction. In the following tribute to House of Souls, he assesses the influence of Machen's "The White People...
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In the following essay, Burleson provides a deconstructionist interpretation of Machen's short story "N."
There is something remarkable at the outset when the title of a story ...
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In the following essay, Owens examines "The Great God Pan, " "The Inmost Light, " and "The Novel of the White Powder, " maintaining that the stories are influ...
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An American editor and critic, Joshi is the leading figure in the field of H. P. Lovecraft scholarship and criticism. As an editor, his publications include several volumes of Lovecraft's previ...
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Arthur Machen achieved notoriety as a writer through a series of short stories he wrote in the 1890s which, perhaps more than any other literary material, are a bridge between the supernatural tale of...
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Krutch is widely regarded as one of America's most respected literary and drama critics. Noteworthy among his works are The American Drama since 1918 (1939), in which he analyzes the most impor...
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In the following essay, Roberts briefly compares Machen's short stories to those of Edgar Allan Poe.
There are authors who are more to us than any individual book of theirs, just as there ar...
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In the following review, Douglas offers a favorable assessment of The Shining Pyramid.
Men ask for bread, and Mr. Arthur Machen gives them the Sangraal. We all do seek our meat from Shaw, and Mr. M...
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In the following review, the commentator emphasizes the singular nature of Ornaments in Jade, contending that the reader "with a mind receptive and swept bare of all previously conceived notion...
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Lovecraft is considered one of the foremost modern authors of supernatural horror fiction. Strongly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Dunsany, and early science fiction writers, he developed a type ...
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Highly regarded for his mystery novels, Carr was an American editor, biographer, and short story writer. In the following essay, he offers a positive assessment of the short stories collected in Tales...
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Stern is an American editor, historian, and author. In the following essay, he provides an overview of Machen's fiction.
Most of the stories in this book [Tales of Horror and the Supernatura...
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In the essay below, Gekle examines the supernatural quality of Machen's fiction and places his work within a literary context.
Of recent years there has been a tendency to regard the novel a...
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Arthur Llewellyn Jones
Critical Essay by The Nation
