![]() His debut novella ' The Great God Pan', his semi-autobiographical novel ' The Hill of Dreams' and the terrifying supernatural masterclass of 'The White People'. Of all his works there are perhaps three that stand above all others. Never one for anything as simple as a ghost story Machen's fiction tells of places and people outside of the normal, of contact with the ephemeral and of the importance of the mystical. ![]() ![]() Born 155 years ago today Arthur Machen was a Welsh writer and mystic the vicar's son from the former Roman settlement of Caerleon in Monmouthshire who transformed a Celtic pagan sensibility and a love of the bucolic and the arcane mysteries of his rural childhood home into an array of bewitching and beguiling stories. ![]()
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