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Arthur Machen is neither a horror author nor a fantasist. He is a mystic, who knew that there exists a threshold which if it is stepped over will show us a subtly altered reality, ripe with raptures and perversities. His stories are proof, I believe, that this threshold exists, and that Machen crossed over many times, returning to report in his fictions what Holy Terrors he had witnessed. Clive Barker Los Angeles, January 2010 --Clive Barker
Machen is a genius right enough but I don t take him to bed with me again. Arthur Conan Doyle For ability to create an atmosphere of nameless terror I can think of no author living or dead who comes near to him. Jerome K. Jerome Arthur Machen s stories... are inspired by a genuine emotion. He hardly ever wrote merely to frighten others; he did so because he knew he lived in an alien world. Jorge Luis Borges --Arthur Conan Doyle, Jorge Luis Borges --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Machen is a genius right enough but I don t take him to bed with me again. Arthur Conan Doyle For ability to create an atmosphere of nameless terror I can think of no author living or dead who comes near to him. Jerome K. Jerome Arthur Machen s stories... are inspired by a genuine emotion. He hardly ever wrote merely to frighten others; he did so because he knew he lived in an alien world. Jorge Luis Borges --Arthur Conan Doyle, Jorge Luis Borges --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
H. P. Lovecraft
Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I love this book. I found it via Dion Fortune and H.P. Lovecraft. All three writers wrote essentially the same tale (see The Shadow over Innsmouth and The Goat Foot God). This is my preferred one out of the three. However to enjoy Machen I think you have to read some of Dunsany's work. Both of them indulge in odd little tales that don't have a proper beginning or end. They also indulge in purple prose a great deal of the time. If you like the more laboured tales of Lovecraft then you should enjoy this. But as with Lovecraft, dont expect too much and enjoy it for what it is - a quirky little tale about the possibilities of mixing of brain surgery, Greek Gods and the occult.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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I guess that, like a lot of other people, I found Machen via Lovecraft, ...
The setting is marvellous (Machen lived around Caerleon and knew it well, and accurately evokes the atmosphere of rural South wales whenever he can). the plot, told from various viewpoints, is made more intriguing by the fact that you never really get a handle on what actually goes on. The shifting viewpoints create a sense of unease, if not of fright- but then, it's not really a scary book. Like a lot of his 'Yellow Book' contemporaries, Machen's work was really intensely moral.
It was just a morality that didn't actually preclude describing the things that were to be avoided...
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Hmm - I have to say I agree with some of the comments above. I don't think that 'The Great God Pan' represents Machen at his best, and I've always been slightly puzzled by its cult status.
This isn't to do down Machen. At his best, he was a magnificent horror writer. 'The Three Impostors' (which Lovecraft cheerfully pillaged) is a wonderful read, and communicates a genuine sense of Edwardian oddness - one of the great novels of London suburban surrealism.
It's also worth digging out his more autobiographical novels, 'The Hill of Dreams' et al. Here, he comes across like Dostoevski on opium - some truly amazing writing about life in London at the end of the last century, plus immensely compelling and intense depictions of extreme mental states.
For a good bit of horror, though, I'd start with 'The Three Impostors'.
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Entertaining for all the wrong reasons
I think this might read a little trolly, but I swear I'm not making it up for effect. I laughed like a drain reading this. Read more
Published 15 months ago by P. KINCAID
Hamfisted occult shenanigans - nice drawings though.
While I know Arthur Machen had some very influential admirers, I have to confess that the cult status of his work completely mystifies me - I grant that he could string together a... Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2001
An interesting, quick read
Perhaps my hopes were too high,I was however let down by the mythos surrounding this book and the author. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2000 by Alexi Dolloff-Brammer
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