Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is one of the towering figures in the Golden Age of weird fiction, and his novels and tales have influenced generations of weird writers and remain immensely popular among readers.
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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.
It was condemned by contemporary reviewers as the work of a diseased mind.
But then he published The Great God Pan (1894), one of the pioneering works in the entire range of weird fiction.
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 risqu sketches for fashionable London magazines.
This first Volume contains his charming picaresque novel The Chronicle of Clemendy (1888), an exquisite imitation of the medieval narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio.
It is also the first edition to arrange Machen\'s Fiction chronologically by date of writing.
This is the first edition of Machen\'s Fiction to be based on a thorough examination of his manuscripts and early publications.
But much of his work has been difficult to obtain, remaining buried in obscure magazines and newspapers of a century ago or published in expensive limited editions.
Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is one of the towering figures in the Golden Age of weird fiction, and his novels and tales have influenced generations of weird writers and remain immensely popular among readers
