Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

✍ Scribed by Machen, Arthur

• Book ID: 109153828
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 286 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The stories in this volume concern the interpenetration between the material world and �the world on the other side of the dark curtain�. Drawn from the beginning and the end of Arthur Machen�s literary career, all these works reflect the author�s absorption with the wondrous, the uncanny and the unknown. If the reader so desires, these tales can be regarded as nothing more than bizarre and baroque entertainments�supernatural thrillers to set the pulse racing on nights by the winter fireside�but all possess a philosophical dimension and a genuine artistic creed. Sensational as some of them are, the best of Machen�s fantasy stories transcend the humble genre of the shocker and aspire to high art. Their uniqueness in literature led Vincent Starrett, Machen�s earliest champion, to acclaim him �a novelist of the soul�, an explorer of heights and depths undreamed of by writers of greater renown.

Contents:

• INTRODUCTION by Roger Dobson
• THE NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL (from The Three Impostors, published 1895 by John Lane)
• THE NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER (from The Three Impostors, published 1895 by John Lane)
• THE GREAT GOD PAN (from The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light, published 1894 by John Lane)
• THE WHITE PEOPLE (from The House of Souls, published 1906 by E. Grant Richards)
• THE INMOST LIGHT (from The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light, published 1894 by John Lane)
• THE SHINING PYRAMID (from The Shining Pyramid, published 1925 by Martin Secker)
• THE BOWMEN (from The Angel of Mons, published 1915 by Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co.)
• THE GREAT RETURN (published 1915, by The Faith Press, London)
• THE HAPPY CHILDREN (from The Shining Pyramid, published 1925 by Martin Secker)
• THE BRIGHT BOY (from The Children of the Pool, published 1936 by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.)
• OUT OF THE EARTH (from The Shining Pyramid, published 1925 by Martin Secker)
• N (from The Cosy Room, published 1936 by Rich & Cowan)
• THE CHILDREN OF THE POOL (from The Children of the Pool, published 1936 by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.)
• THE TERROR (published 1917 by Duckworth & Co.)