Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a master of folk horror. A Fragment of Life, his short novel from 1906, overlays his unique mystical theology with his psychogeographic visions of the grey streets of London, and blends them with… a love story. A young...

Arthur Llewelyn Jones was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire on the 3rd March 1863.Machen came from a long line of clergymen, and when he was two, his father became vicar of a small parish about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Peer into the veiled corners of the human mind, where the shadows writhe with forbidden knowledge. Uncover chilling tales spun from moonlight and mystery, where nature harbors secrets best left...

The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The story is fictitious, developed through a combination of a patriotic short story...

An outnumbered squad of British soldiers face certain death at the guns of the approaching Germans. Will the arrival of the bowmen turn the tide of battle in their favour? Author - Arthur Machen. Narrator - Doug Bradley. Published Date - Monday, 16...

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction.'The Bowmen' is perhaps the most famous of Machen's tales. It is the iconic story of an incident from the First World War...

Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction."The Ceremony" is the eerie tale of a standing stone which exerts a supernatural pull towards young females and draws...

Horror master Stephen King has called Arthur Machen's Gothic horror story The Great God Pan "one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language." Its influence extends from Bram Stoker's Dracula to H.P. Lovecraft's The...

"one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language." - Stephen KingA tense and creepy horror story, The Great God Pan revolves around the mysterious "Mrs Vaughan" and the tide of death she leaves in her wake. Can she...

Arthur Machen’s novella explores the disturbing consequences of toying with the line between the earthly world and the spiritual realm. The Great God Pan centers around an ominous woman named Helen, who lives in the woods and invites morbid...

An experimental surgery. A plague of suicides. Through layering pieces of testimony, the connection between these events leads to a startling conclusion.Inspired by a trip to a graveyard in Wales, the novella was originally not well received. The...

"The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894....

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Daring, controversial, and hauntingly visionary, The Great God Pan is a cornerstone of supernatural fiction and one of the most influential horror stories ever written. First published in 1894, Arthur...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Dr. Raymond, obsessed with the unseen world, performs a risky brain operation on a young woman, Mary, hoping to grant her a glimpse of the primal god Pan. The surgery backfires, leaving Mary broken. Years...

Dubbed the greatest horror story in English by Stephen King, The Great God Pan is an eerie and otherworldly mystery about a diabolical operation and its terrifying repercussions. After rescuing a young woman from the streets of London, Dr Raymond uses...

The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Lucian Taylor wasn't like other children. He craved more than the sleepy routine of his Welsh village. The Hill, an ancient Roman fort, beckoned with whispers of forgotten magic. There, under the summer...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The house waits at the edge of the night, its windows dim, its doors unlocked. Inside, voices stir — not living, not gone, but something caught between. A traveler crosses the threshold and finds each room...

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction.'The Lost Club' is a supernatural adventure story. Stranded in London during the summer vacation period and caught up in a...

Arthur Llewelyn Jones was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire on the 3rd March 1863.Machen came from a long line of clergymen, and when he was two, his father became vicar of a small parish about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at...

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction.The Red Hand is a mysterious horror story, which tells the peculiar tale of the strange murder of Sir Thomas Vivian, the...

It is 1915, the war wages in mainland europe... but death also stalks the lanes and farms of a lonely england. A death that nobody can explain, that the papers are not allowed to speak of. Who or what is responsible for these mysterious killings? Are...

"The Terror," a gripping novel by Arthur Machen, is set against the harrowing backdrop of World War I in a rural Welsh community plagued by bizarre and horrifying occurrences. The story explores themes of fear, paranoia, and the unknown, as local...

Three friends in a large old dilapidated house are laughing. They seem as giddy as an acting troupe at closing night. But their laughter is callous, cruel; you might say, evil. One of them, a young woman described as piquant rather than beautiful with...