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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.
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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...
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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