Arthur Machen (/ ˈ m æ k ən / or / ˈ m æ x ən /; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) [1] was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) was an author and mystic. He hailed from a long line of clergymen but became an influential Gothic writer producing supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. The portrait depicts the author in 1905 and his outfit suggests that he knew a bit about showmanship as well writing.

2024年12月11日 · Arthur Machen (born March 3, 1863, Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Eng.—died Dec. 15, 1947, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire) was a Welsh novelist and essayist, a forerunner of 20th-century Gothic science fiction.

Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863–1947), better known by his pen-name, Arthur Machen, was an influential Welsh writer of supernatural, occult and mystical stories. Born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Machen was the son of a clergyman and educated as a boarder at the Cathedral School, Hereford.

Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His long story The Great God Pan made him famous and controversial in his lifetime, but The Hill of Dreams is generally considered his masterpiece.

2018年5月11日 · Machen, Arthur (Llewellyn) (1863-1947) British novelist born March 3, 1863, at Carleon-on-Usk, Wales [1], who became one of the leading authors of English occult fiction, but was undeservedly neglected during his lifetime.

Machen defines the capacity to produce ecstasy in the reader as the touchstone of all great writing. 1906 The House of Souls Grant Richards, London. Some of Machen's best short pieces of the 1890s were first published in magazines. Many …

Arthur Machen, 1863-1947, was a writer of fiction, and much more. He is most widely remembered today as the author of the 1914 story The Bowmen , which gave rise to the legend of the Angels of Mons, of supernatural beings who fought …

Arthur Machen was born in Caerleon on Usk, in the county of Gwent, South Wales, in 1863, and baptised into the Anglican faith, as Arthur Llewellyn Jones. His father, John Edward Jones (Machen was his mother's maiden name), was an Anglican priest, vicar of the tiny church of Llandewi, near Caerleon, and the boy was raised at the rectory there.

2023年10月21日 · Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin by Vincent Starrett; Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy by William Francis Gekle (transcription project)