Автор: Machen Arthur Название: Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories ISBN: 0198805101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198805106 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Arthur Machen is a significant figure in supernatural and horror literature, in the genre of `weird fiction`. This collection brings together his best horror tales with a full contextual introduction and which helps to illuminate Machen`s place in the literary and cultural milieu of 1890s Britain.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: Collected Fiction Volume 2: 1896-1910 ISBN: 161498249X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614982494 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 30650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This second volume of Machen's collected fiction begins with Machen's most accomplished novel, The Hill of Dreams (written in 1895-97 and published in 1907), which H. P. Lovecraft called a "memorable epic of the sensitive aesthetic mind." It features Lucian Taylor, a young man from the country who struggles to become a writer in London. His ruminations on life, love, and authorship are extraordinarily poignant, and at one point he engages in a lengthy dream of being back in ancient Rome, in the town of Isca Silurum, near his birthplace in Wales.
Later in 1897 Machen wrote a series of exquisite prose poems that were later published as Ornaments in Jade (1924). These ten vignettes display Machen's luminous prose at its most evocative, and they touch upon the possibility of strange and wondrous phenomena concealed behind the outward fa ade of the mundane world.
Machen's most accomplished weird tale, "The White People," is also found here. Its account of a young girl insidiously inculcated in the witch-cult, told entirely from her own perspective as she jots down her thoughts and impressions in a diary, achieves the pinnacle of clutching fear. A very different work is the short novel A Fragment of Life, telling of how a seemingly ordinary couple rediscover their sense of wonder in the world around them.
The novel The Secret Glory (written around 1907) is a discursive novel that searingly condemns the British school system for destroying the imaginations of its pupils. The entire work--including the final two chapters, first published only in a limited edition in 1992--is included here.
The edition has been prepared by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction and the author of The Weird Tale (1990) and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). Joshi has prepared textually corrected editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: Collected Fiction Volume 3: 1911-1937 ISBN: 1614982503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614982500 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 30650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This third volume of Machen's collected fiction begins with a tale, "The Thousand and One Nights," that has never before been reprinted. It continues with a succession of tales that Machen wrote during and just after World War I, a cataclysm that shook Europe to its foundations. The most famous of these is "The Bowmen" (1914), a narrative of medieval soldiers coming to the rescue of besieged British infantrymen in France was widely believed to be a true account, in spite of Machen's repeated protestations to the contrary. Machen's final war tale, the short novel The Terror (1916), is an imperishable depiction of the revolt of animals against humanity's rulership of the earth.
In the 1920s Machen resorted to humor and satire to convey his dissatisfaction with the increasing secularization of his era, which he felt was robbing the imagination of wonder and mystery. He also began contributing to anthologies of original weird fiction edited by Cynthia Asquith and others, producing several memorable tales as a result, including "The Happy Children" and "The Islington Mystery."
Machen's final novel, The Green Round (1933), is a subtle tale of supernatural menace, narrated in the blandly repertorial prose that Machen had developed in his later work. He then published two final volumes of weird tales, The Cosy Room and The Children of the Pool (both 1936), which contain many memorable tales, including "The Bright Boy" and "N."
Machen's collected fiction is a monument to the author's fifty years of rumination about human life and the obscure mysteries that may lurk hidden in far-away corners of the earth--and in our imaginations. They are filled with an intensity and sincerity of expression testifying to their author's earnest philosophical and religious beliefs, and they are written in some of the most mellifluous prose of their time.
The edition has been prepared by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction and the author of The Weird Tale (1990) and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). Joshi has prepared textually corrected editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.
Автор: Machen, Arthur Название: The Great God Pan ISBN: 0241341124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241341124 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 7030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's weird tale has since established itself as a classic of its genre and has been described by Stephen King as 'one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language'.
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Автор: Valentine Mark, Jarvis Timothy J. Название: The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen ISBN: 1614982457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614982456 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 30650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The works of Anglo-Welsh author Arthur Machen (1863-1947) made an indelible and ever-expanding impression in the genre of horror and the supernatural, and have always inspired both ardent advocates and determined opponents. In the 1890s, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle admired his work, but the majority of critics were hostile, and he was often seen as part of the Decadent movement of the "Yellow 'Nineties." The first section of this critical anthology provides important contextual information about Machen's life and works, and gives a clear impression of how Machen was regarded in the 1920s, when his books began to emerge from the shadows. The following section offers contributions concerned with Machen's role as a figure of the 1890s and a participant in the Decadent movement. The third section presents discussions Machen's interest in ritual magic, occultism, classical mythology, the sublime, and his own individual and particular form of Christianity. In his later work, Machen never lost his deep interest in folklore and popular customs, eccentric characters and curious historical episodes, and the present volume's final section shows how these continued to inform Machen's work right up until his last writing. In sum total, this volume presents an extended critical assessment of Machen's work, early and late.
The volume has been edited by Mark Valentine, a leading authority on Machen, author of Arthur Machen (1995), and editor of Aklo, All Hallows, and Wormwood; and Timothy J. Jarvis, instructor in creative writing and author of the novel The Wanderer (2014) and numerous works of short fiction.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: The Terror: Large Print ISBN: 1694023761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781694023766 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Arthur Machen (/ˈm kən/; 3 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. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. 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.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: A Fragment of Life ISBN: 1687598525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781687598523 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: All day long a fierce and heavy heat had brooded Over the City, and as Darnell neared home he saw the mist lying on all the damp lowlands, wreathed in coils about Bedford Park to the south and mounting to the West, so that the tower of Acton Church loomed out of a grey lake. He lived in the grey phantasmal world, akin to death, that has, somehow, with most of us, made good its claim to be called life. But so went forth Darnell, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shepherd's Bush -- having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance. . . .
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: Ornaments in Jade ISBN: 1943813604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943813605 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: Dreads and Drolls ISBN: 1469928388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469928388 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 23270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: The Great God Pan ISBN: 1727885805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781727885804 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9070.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "I was able to make arrangements for a few days; things are not very lively just now. But have you no misgivings, Raymond? Is it absolutely safe?" The two men were slowly pacing the terrace in front of Dr. Raymond's house. The sun still hung above the western mountain-line, but it shone with a dull red glow that cast no shadows, and all the air was quiet; a sweet breath came from the great wood on the hillside above, and with it, at intervals, the soft murmuring call of the wild doves. Below, in the long lovely valley, the river wound in and out between the lonely hills, and, as the sun hovered and vanished into the west, a faint mist, pure white, began to rise from the hills. Dr. Raymond turned sharply to his friend.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: The White People ISBN: 1688267832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781688267831 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "The White People" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s, it was first published in 1904 in Horlick's Magazine, edited by Machen's friend A. E. Waite, then reprinted in Machen's collection The House of Souls.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: The Red Hand ISBN: 1687614830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781687614834 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Red Hand" is a short story by Welsh author Arthur Machan that includes the main characters from his novella "The Three Impostors". The story revolves around gruesome a murder, the only glue for which is an interesting ancient stone axe. Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella "The Great God Pan" (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories written in the English language. Other notable fans of his gruesome tales include William Butler Yeats and Arthur Conan Doyle; and his work has been compared to that of Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. This fantastic example of classic horror fiction is highly recommended for fans of the macabre and those who have enjoyed other works by this author. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
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