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| - Image:Stub Logo.png This article is a . You can help improve Mystic Wikia by expanding it. Arthur Machen was a member of the Golden Dawn who is known for writing fiction and influencing Gothic science fiction.
- Author. Arthur Machen is the author of The Novel of the Black Seal, which was included in The Hastur Cycle as a precursor to The Whisperer in Darkness. He also wrote the non-mythos tales The Rose Garden and The White People. His first major success was The Great God Pan, the first edition of which featured cover art by Aubrey Beardsley. Machen was a keen student and proponent of mystical belief and developed a deep interest in legends, such as those of King Arthur and of the Holy Grail.
- Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and actor best known for his fantasy/horror tales set in the decadent Edwardian era. He was a major influence on HP Lovecraft, who considered him a modern master who could create "cosmic horror raised to its most artistic pitch." In addition to The Great God Pan, Lovecraft also praised "The Novel of the Black Seal" and "The Novel of the White Powder" (The Three Imposters) as "approach[ing] the absolute culmination of loathsome fright" and used them as the basis for his own works Cool Air and The Colour Out of Space. Along with his American contemporary Robert W. Chambers, Machen is noted today as one of the forerunners of the Cosmic Horror genre Lovecraft pioneered.
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| - Author. Arthur Machen is the author of The Novel of the Black Seal, which was included in The Hastur Cycle as a precursor to The Whisperer in Darkness. He also wrote the non-mythos tales The Rose Garden and The White People. His first major success was The Great God Pan, the first edition of which featured cover art by Aubrey Beardsley. Machen was a keen student and proponent of mystical belief and developed a deep interest in legends, such as those of King Arthur and of the Holy Grail. Following the death of his first wife and a subsequent spiritual crisis, he was persuaded by his close friend A.E. Waite to join, for a time, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (see also). Machen also took up acting, his first wife having had a passion for the theatre.
- Image:Stub Logo.png This article is a . You can help improve Mystic Wikia by expanding it. Arthur Machen was a member of the Golden Dawn who is known for writing fiction and influencing Gothic science fiction.
- Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and actor best known for his fantasy/horror tales set in the decadent Edwardian era. He was a major influence on HP Lovecraft, who considered him a modern master who could create "cosmic horror raised to its most artistic pitch." In addition to The Great God Pan, Lovecraft also praised "The Novel of the Black Seal" and "The Novel of the White Powder" (The Three Imposters) as "approach[ing] the absolute culmination of loathsome fright" and used them as the basis for his own works Cool Air and The Colour Out of Space. Along with his American contemporary Robert W. Chambers, Machen is noted today as one of the forerunners of the Cosmic Horror genre Lovecraft pioneered. Machen was born to a poor vicar in rural Wales. As an adult, his poverty was greatly ameliorated by an inheritance left him by several Scottish relatives, which also enabled him to devote more time to writing. He took up acting shortly after the death of his first wife in 1899 and associated with Aleister Crowley and his circle, mostly out of curiosity. Machen is also responsible for "The Angels of Mons", a fictional tale he wrote for a newspaper during World War I that many subsequently treated as a true story - despite his insistence that it was no such thing. After a brief period of popularity in the 1920s, Machen's fortunes faded. On his eightieth birthday in 1943, however, a literary appeal was launched to formally recognize him as a distinguished man of letters. Signers of the appeal included T.S. Eliot, Bernard Shaw, Walter de la Mare, Algernon Blackwood, and John Masefield. Its success allowed Machen to live out his final years in relative comfort.
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