Arthur Machen (March 1863 - 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century.
Historian of fantastic literature Brian Stableford has suggested that Machen "was the first writer of authentically modern horror stories, and his best works must stil.
Charles Williams was also a devotee of Machen\'s work, which inspired Williams\' own fiction.
The French writer Paul-Jean Toulet translated Machen\'s The Great God Pan into French and visited Machen in London.
He is also usually noted in the better studies of Anglo-Welsh literature.
At the time authors like Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and Arthur Conan Doyle were all admirers of Machen\'s works.
Joshi see Machen\'s works as a significant part of the late Victorian revival of the gothic novel and the decadent movement of the 1890s, bearing direct comparison to the themes found in contemporary works like Robert Louis Stevenson\'s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Bram Stoker\'s Dracula, and Oscar Wilde\'s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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In 2010, to mark the 150 years since Machen\'s birth, two volumes of Machen\'s work were republished in the prestigious Library of Wales series.
More recently, the small press has continued to keep Machen\'s work in print.
In the sixties, a paperback reprint in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series brought him to the notice of a new generation.
Machen\'s literary significance is substantial; his stories have been translated into many languages and reprinted in short story anthologies countless times.
His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best horror story] in the English language." He is also well known for "The Bowmen", a short story that was widely read as fact, creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.
He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction.
Arthur Machen (March 1863 - 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century
