Arthur Machen

Welsh author and mystic (1863–1947)

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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

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1863-03-03
Active to: 1947-12-15

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Listeners: 96
Total plays: 829

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5 total works indexed

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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.”

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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

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Image: Arthur Machen - ImgID14891187.jpg
Number of children: 2

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date of birth: 1863-03-03
date of death: 1947-12-15
start of work period: 1881-00-00

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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.