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Arthur Machen ( / ˈmækən / or / ˈmæxən /; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) [1] was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction.
Arthur Machen was a Welsh novelist and essayist, a forerunner of 20th-century Gothic science fiction. Machen’s work was deeply influenced by his childhood in Wales and his readings in the occult and metaphysics.
Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863–1947), better known by his pen-name, Arthur Machen, was an influential Welsh writer of supernatural, occult and mystical stories. Born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Machen was the son of a clergyman and educated as a boarder at the Cathedral School, Hereford.
Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His long story The Great God Pan made him famous and controversial in his lifetime, but The Hill of Dreams is generally considered his masterpiece.
The Great God Pan is an 1894 horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the magazine The Whirlwind in 1890.
1949 Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, London: The Richards Press. A wide-ranging, just posthumous collection of the best of Machen's shorter fiction, both of the 1890s, of the period around the First World War, and of his prolific last years. Reprinted in 1960s as paperback.
Jan 19, 2018 · Arthur Machen remains a figure on the fringes of horror fiction. Perhaps, in a sense, that’s where he belongs. But he deserves a wider readership. His work influenced H. P. Lovecraft and he is now seen as one of the founding fathers of that peculiar hybrid form known as ‘the Weird’.
