Arthur Machen: A Short Account of His Life and Work - Softcover

Aidan Reynolds

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0948482060 ISBN 13: 9780948482069

Publisher: Caermaen P., 1988

Synopsis

3 March 1863 - 15 December 1947 A Welsh writer who spent much of his adult life in London, Machen devoted many of his supernaturalist works to an exploration of a mythic vein of the post-Gothic. His works have frequent recourse to the idea that some vestige of a primitive, malefic, pre-Christian "Little People" has survived into the present, and Machen explores the metaphysical implications of this possibility with gusto. Largely eschewing the mid- to late-Victorian interest in the psychological implications of the supernatural, Machen set the stage for the Cthulhu horrors of Lovecraft and others at the same time that his work testifies to the demise of Victorian complacency and self-assurance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Caermaen P.
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948482060
• ISBN 13: 9780948482069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202