THE EXPERIMENT
“I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed.
I was not sure you could spare the time.”
“I was able to make arrangements for a few days;
things are not very li...
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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, Reynolds and Charlton discuss thematic and stylistic aspects of Machen's short stories, maintaining that his fiction is "something not particularly profound, no...
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The Great God Pan
Arthur Llewellyn Jones
Critical Essay by Aidan Reynolds and William Charlton
