Machen's "A Double Return" was one of a number of pieces first published in the "St James Gazette», in the year 1890. This was the year in which he turned away from tales set in the past, and began to write more racy fiction set in his own time....
“The Green Book,” a small, unassuming diary of a young girl; an unheard of book of the Talmud known as the “Tractate Middoth”; “The King in Yellow,” a play that drives people to insanity; two mysterious grey stone plaques from the sands...
"The House of Souls" contains four of Arthur Machen's best short works: "A Fragment of Life," "The White People," "The Great God Pan," and "The Inmost Light." Introduction by Arthur Machen. "His powerful horror-material of the nineties and...
During the First World War in Britain a series of unexplained deaths and murders occur with no sign of who or what is responsible. "Explosion at Munition Works in the Northern District: Many Fatalities." The working man told me about it, and...