![]() A solitary child, he learned first to love the gentle slopes of the nearby Soar Brook, then later the more awesome fastnesses of the Black Mountains which lay to the north, and to the east the ancient forest of Wentwood and the remoter Severn Valley. His son was baptised under that name and later used a shortened version, Arthur Machen, as his pen name. Jones had adopted his wife’s maiden name, Machen, to inherit a legacy, legally becoming “Jones-Machen”. ![]() Machen was descended from a long line of clergymen, his father John Edward Jones being vicar of the parish of Llanddewi Fach. Machen was born Arthur Llewelyn Jones in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales. ![]() “For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.” (Arthur Machen) His Father’s Library ![]() Stephen King has called it “ Maybe the best horror story in the English language“. His novella The Great God Pan ( 1890) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. On March 3, 1863, Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machen was born. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |