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Arthur Machen

Forfatterbiografi

Arthur Machen, født Arthur Llewellyn Jones den 3. marts 1863, var en walisisk forfatter og mystiker. Han døde den 15. december 1947 i England. Som forfatter skrev han især fiktion med overnaturlige og okkulte undertoner, ofte forbundet med horror, dekadence og en drømmeagtig, mytisk virkelighedsfornemmelse. Machen er især kendt for værker som novellen The Great God Pan, romanen The Hill of Dreams og den rammefortællende The Three Impostors, som tilsammen cementerede hans ry som en markant skikkelse inden for den engelsksprogede fantastik i overgangen mellem 1800- og 1900-tallet. Sideløbende skrev han også fortællinger, essays og andet prosa-stof, hvor det sanselige, det esoteriske og det uforløseligt gådefulde ofte træder i forgrunden. En central tekst i denne tradition er den gotiske overnaturlighed The White People, hvis motivkreds har haft stor litterær gennemslagskraft og ofte forbindes med eftertidens interesse for gamle kulter og “det usigelige” i skyggen af moderne sprog og rationalitet. Machen betragtes i dag som betydningsfuld for eftertidens udvikling af overnaturlig fortællekunst, hvor både stemning og antydning snarere end entydige forklaringer bærer fortællingens virkning.

Bøger af Arthur Machen

'The White People'
'The White People'

Bog | Engelsk

A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses. It is a young girl's diary, in which she describes in ingenuous, evocative prose her strange impressions of the countryside in which s

'The White People'
'The White People'

Bog | Engelsk

The White People (1904) is a short story by Arthur Machen. Originally published in Horlick's Magazine, the story was later printed in The House of Souls (1906), a short story collection. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication, Machen's

'The Great God Pan'
'The Great God Pan'

Bog | Engelsk

When Mr. Clarke agrees to visit his friend Dr. Raymond, he is dubious about the proceedings he is to witness. In pursuit of what Raymond calls "transcendental science," the doctor intends to make a small incision in a woman's brain, allowing

'The Great God Pan'
'The Great God Pan'

Bog | Engelsk

'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 immora

'The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories'
'The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories'

Bog | Engelsk

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth

'The Three Impostors'
'The Three Impostors'

Bog | Engelsk

The complete lost classic of psychological horror from the master himself, Arthur Machen! It is a coincidence... But what happens when one coincidence turns into two? Or three? Or more? Dyson knows something is strange after a man in spectacles casts asid

'The Great God Pan'
'The Great God Pan'

Bog | Engelsk

Mysterious deaths in London baffle authorities, but for two men the reason is quite clear: they have seen something unspeakably terrible and lost their lives for it. For Clark it goes back to events from years ago; events he had strangely forgotten. The G

'The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories'
'The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories'

Bog | Engelsk

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth

'The Great God Pan'
'The Great God Pan'

Bog | Engelsk

The Great God Pan is a horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write The Great God Pan by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in

'Fantastic and Horrific Stories'
'Fantastic and Horrific Stories'

Bog | Engelsk

Fantastic and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by Arthur Machen. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication, Machen's writing earned praise from Oscar Wilde and H. P. Lovecraft. Throughout the years, Machen's work has been

'Den store gud Pan og andre fortællinger'
'Den store gud Pan og andre fortællinger'

Bog | Dansk

I Den store Gud Pan og andre fortællinger præsenteres de bedste historier af den store gotiske forfatter Arthur Machen, hvis værker har haft enorm indflydelse på gyserlitteraturen i det 20. århundrede. Selve titelnovellen, Den store gud Pan, er af Stephen

'Arthur Machen Horror Stories'
'Arthur Machen Horror Stories'

Bog | Engelsk

Alongside M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood and Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen wrote powerful, chilling and thought-provoking stories. His supernatural tales draw their power from the long nights and dark lanes of the Welsh countryside that raise