arthur machen

https://darklybrightpress.com/the-terror-limited-critical-edition/ My understanding is that 27 copies are already sold. The paperback edition will not be limited, so far as I know. Douglas Anderson (The Annotated Hobbit, H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales, etc.) describes it: This "New...

Doug Anderson has come up with a (surely) hitherto not recorded bit of writing by Tolkien -- which should settle forever how his name is to be pronounced. In the video biography of JRRT, I think Rayner Unwin accented the second syllable -- incorrectly, as it turns out...

There's a great deal of activity at Darkly Bright going on. 1.Every week, Darkly Bright publishes rare items by Arthur Machen. Some of these are ephemeral, but often there is some element of authentic interest for the Machen enthusiast, and his personality usually comes through. These entries...

Darkly Bright is a website and publisher with a strong emphasis on Arthur Machen's writings, notably works that have not been reprinted since their original appearance or that are likely to be unfamiliar. Site manager Christopher Tompkins publishes articles about Machen occasionally, as well...

https://darklybrightpress.com/machen-on-blackwood/ I'd have liked to see Machen develop the nuances of his own understanding of nature, since this piece by itself doesn't catch some of the elements to be see elsewhere in his writing.

Two of the greatest and most seminal imaginative writers sit back and talk about mundane (mostly) topics prior to World War I. https://darklybrightpress.com/a-quiet-talk-with-mr-h-g-wells/

Following my first attempt to request rankings of the stories of Algernon Blackwood, I figured that it’s time to give Arthur Machen a go. In this thread, please rank your ten favorite Arthur Machen stories. Your favorite story should be numbered 1, while your less preferred stories should ascend...

With regard to Machen’s last novel – so to call it because it is a prose fiction too long to be a novella – Dr. Reiter sympathizes with the consensus that sees The Green Round as a failure. Having read it with enjoyment five times, I’m interested in how to account for the appeal of an old man’s...

See the two earlier discussions for the first two chapters of Dr. Geoffrey Reiter's dissertation, discussing such well-known horror stories as "The Great God Pan" and "The Novel of the Black Seal" Arthur Machen: Man Is Made a Mystery 1: Great God Pan, White Powder, Inmost Light, Black Seal and...

Chapter 3 of Geoffrey Reiter's dissertation https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/bitstream/handle/2104/8049/Geoffrey_Reiter_phd.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y deals with these works and Hieroglyphics, a critical study cast in the form of a narrative. In this phase of Machen's creativity, roughly...

We begin our review of Arthur Machen's oeuvre and life as discussed by Geoffrey Reiter in the readable dissertation below. Please let your comments be based on Reiter as well as your reading of the Machen stories listed in the title. Discussion of the stories apart from Reiter's comments might...

Within the next few weeks, in the Classic SF & F area of Chrons Classic SF&F you'll be welcomed to participate in a conversation about a dissertation that I have discovered on the entire career of Arthur Machen, the noted horror writer. The dissertation is here...

The 90th Anniversary of Arthur Machen’s Duds and Dulls In 1924, Spurr and Swift published Precious Balms, a compilation of reviews, mostly unfavorable, of Machen’s books, a 250-copy edition signed by Machen. Such was the success of the book that the publisher clamoured for a successor. In...

Arthur Machen, commonly called a horror writer and mystic, will need no introduction, for many Chronsfolk. Herewith I invite discussion of the following authors, seen as writers from whose works Arthur Machen drew nourishment. If necessary I will just talk to myself here, but I hope very much...

A knowledgeable piece from the Washington Post ten years ago: Ghost Stories (washingtonpost.com) The typo on the title of one of Kirk's stories is kind of funny.

I don't suppose G. K. Chesterton had ever heard of Machen or (certainly) Lovecraft, but this passage from one of his books suggests to me a difference between the two writers, with Machen being the visionary and Lovecraft the (in Chesterton's words) "false contemplative." Thoughts? “That...

For years I have felt there was some affinity between Tolkien's writing, which simply means more to me than that of any other fantasist, and certain passages of Arthur Machen's. I recently managed to complete a second reading, after almost 40 years, of his Hill of Dreams. For me, the best of...

Been out of touch with what's going on lately, but in looking at some of Wilum's vlogs, I came across one featuring S. T. Joshi talking about some of his upcoming projects, one of which is a very nice Penguin edition of Arthur Machen...