Books by Arthur Machen
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review 1: Some of these stories like The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The White People, and The Inmost Light I really enjoyed. Others I didn't care so much for like A Fragment of Life. Overall, I like Machen's righting because they aren't outright horrific--inste...
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review 1: Early into this I can immediately recognize the thematic influence Machen had on Lovecraft; that humanity dwells on the threshold to a broader world inhabited by beings who are malevolent or indifferent to our well-being at best. Machen however is the superior craftsman. He is ab...
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review 1: Some very good stories in here, especially the Novel of the Black Seal, Novel of the White Powder, The Red Hand, and The Terror. Gets a little dull in the middle, mostly because A Fragment of Life starts out fantastically mundane (the central couple spends 5 pages of debate over...