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Arthur Machen
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Arthur Machen was a British male author whose literary career began in 1881. Born on March 3, 1863, and deceased on December 15, 1947, he was associated with the horror genre and audiobooks. He had two children.
His notable works include *The great god Pan*, *More Stories to Remember -- Volume II*, *Welsh Tales of Terror*, *Far off things*, and *The three impostors*. Open Library records 341 works attributed to him, while Crossref lists five. His writings have been referenced by 264 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1863-03-03
- Died
- 1947-12-15
- Works
- 341
Top works
- The great god Pan
- More Stories to Remember -- Volume II
- Welsh Tales of Terror
- Far off things
- The three impostors
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1863-03-03
- Active to
- 1947-12-15
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 96
- Total plays
- 829
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Arthur Machen ( /ˈmækən/; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. (Stephen King called it "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language".) He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2009 · cited 33,820x
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· 2009 · cited 23,195x
- The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
· 2012 · cited 15,173x
- Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range
· 1968 · cited 13,430x
- The Molecular Signatures Database Hallmark Gene Set Collection
· 2015 · cited 13,172x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.”
- “It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”
- “Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.”
- “The psycho-analyst infers the monstrous and abnormal from a trifle; it is often safe to reverse the process. If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Arthur Llewellyn Jones , ( 1863-03-03 ) 3 March 1863, Caerleon , Monmouthshire , Wales
- Died
- 15 December 1947 (1947-12-15) (aged 84), Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire, England
- Occupation
- Short story writer, novelist, journalist, actor
- Genre
- Horror , fantasy , supernatural fiction , weird fiction
- Notable works
- The Great God Pan , The Three Impostors , " The White People ", The Hill of Dreams
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Arthur
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Caerleon
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Great God Pan
- Genre
- horror literature
- Image
- Arthur Machen - ImgID14891187.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons Creator page
- Arthur Machen
- P12749
- 1973 Canadian Grand Prix
- Commons category
- Arthur Machen
- date of birth
- 1863-03-03
- date of death
- 1947-12-15
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1881-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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Arthur Llewellyn Jones (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947), known by his pen name Arthur Machen (/ˈmækən/ or /ˈmæxən/), was a Welsh author and mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror; Stephen King described it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." He is also known for "The Bowmen", a short story that was widely read as fact, creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.
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