17 Free Arthur Machen Books [PDF]
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Looking for Arthur Machen books? Born in Caerleon, Wales, in 1863, Machen wrote The Great God Pan, the novella that shocked Victorian London and helped invent modern weird fiction.
Here you'll find 17 of his books, from the pagan horror of The White People to The Hill of Dreams, the novel many readers call his masterpiece. He also joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, wrote for London newspapers and left three lyrical volumes of memoirs.
Every book is free to read online or download as PDF. If you're wondering where to start, open The Great God Pan.
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Arthur Machen's Weird Tales and Horror Stories
These are the stories that made Arthur Machen famous, with ancient pagan powers breaking into ordinary lives in Wales and London. Stephen King called The Great God Pan maybe the best horror story in English, and The White People and The Three Impostors are close behind.
Arthur Machen's Novels
The Hill of Dreams follows a young writer from the Welsh hills to a London lodging house, and it's Machen at his most personal. The Secret Glory turns a cruel English school into a quest for the Holy Grail, while The Chronicle of Clemendy is a merry book of tales told over ale.
The Angels of Mons and Other War Legends
In 1914 Machen published The Bowmen, a short story about phantom archers saving British soldiers at Mons, and thousands of readers took it as fact. The Terror and The Great Return keep that wartime mood, with animals turning on people and the Grail returning to a Welsh village.
Essays and Memoirs by Arthur Machen
In Hieroglyphics, Machen argues that great writing is the kind that gives the reader ecstasy. His memoirs, from Far Off Things to The London Adventure, recall his Welsh childhood and his hungry years as a writer in London.
H. P. Lovecraft counted Machen among the modern masters of supernatural horror, and Guillermo del Toro still names him as an influence. Read one tale tonight and you'll see why.
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