Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle...
Machen\'s.
In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal body of tales of occult horror, spiritual and physical corruption, and malignant survivals from the primeval past which horrified and scandalized late-Victorian readers.
Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern Horror than Arthur Machen.
Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle..