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Arthur Machen Collected Ficiton - #1 1888-1895

By: Hippocampus Press

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Horror Novels (Hippocampus Press)

Last Stocked on 7/14/2024

Product Info

Title
Arthur Machen Collected Ficiton - #1 1888-1895
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
2019
Pages
546
Dimensions
6.25x9x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147946508
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

This collection of Arthur Machen’s classic weird fiction works contains his charming picaresque novel The Chronicle of Clemendy (1888), an exquisite imitation of the medieval narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio. At this time Machen was a young journalist who had moved from his native Wales to London, and he wrote a number of humorous and slightly risqué sketches for fashionable London magazines. But then he published The Great God Pan” (1894), one of the pioneering works in the entire range of weird fiction. It was condemned by contemporary reviewers as the work of a diseased mind.

Machen followed it up with the episodic novel The Three Impostors (1895), containing the brilliant segments The Novel of the Black Seal (which features the Little People, a sub-human race lurking on the edges of civilization), The Novel of the White Powder, and other vivid narratives.