Bücher von Arthur Machen

Well, as I say, I found myself on a certain night a partaker of all this cheerfulness. I was one guest among many; there were explorers and ambassadors and great scientific personages and judges, and the author who has given the world the best laughter that it has enjoyed since Dickens died: in a word, I was in much more distinguished company than that to which I am accustomed. And after dinner the Persians (as I will call them) have a kindly and courteous custom of praising their guests; and to my astonishment and delight the speaker brought me into his oration and said the kindest and most glowing things imaginable about a translation I once made of the "Heptameron" of Margaret of Navarre. I was heartily pleased; I hold with Foker in "Pendennis" that every fellow likes a hand. Praise is grateful, especially when there has not been too much of it.

The Three Impostors (1895) is a novel by Arthur Machen. Consisting of interwoven stories involving the title characters, The Three Impostors was compared to the prose style of Robert Louis Stevenson on publication. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication, Machen¿s writing earned praise from Oscar Wilde and H. P. Lovecraft. Throughout the years, Machen¿s work has been referenced and adapted by such figures as Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, and Josh Malerman for its masterfully unsettling blend of science, myth, and magic. Inspired by his knowledge of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which was undergoing a controversial conflict involving Irish poet W. B. Yeats and English mystic Aleister Crowley at the time, Machen crafts a layered tale of suspense and secrecy that continues to entertain and surprise over a century after its release. In London, a secret society of occultists gains strength through mutual disdain of modern life and Victorian social conventions. Three impostors gifted in the art of deceit do their best to disrupt city life while embarking on a quest for an Imperial Roman coin with a salacious history. The Three Impostors is a kaleidoscopic novel concerned with the horrors ever present on the outskirts of daily life, waiting to make themselves known. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Arthur Machen¿s The Three Impostors is a classic of British horror fiction reimagined for modern readers.

The Chronicle of Clemendy - or, The History of the Joyous Journeys is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Vier von Machens klassischen Novellen ( A Fragment of Life , The White People , The Great God Pan und The Inmost Light ) in einem Band zusammengefasst. "The Great God Pan" und "The White People" sind Klassiker des Horror-Genres, während "The Inmost Light" eher konventioneller, aber dennoch ein verdammt gutes Stück ist. A Fragment of Life, die einzige Nicht-Horror-Geschichte in der Sammlung, hat ihre langweiligen Abschnitte, aber dies erweist sich als beabsichtigt, da eine Darstellung der Ephemera des Lebens die Schönheit übertönt.Machens Karriere, obwohl selten weniger als unterhaltsam, führte schließlich zu weniger Material, in dem dieselben Ideen behandelt wurden, aber The House of Souls ist eines seiner wichtigsten Bücher zusammen mit The Hill of Dreams, Ornaments in Jade und The Three Impostors. Einzigartig kraftvolle Literatur von einem wahren Visionär.

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Dyson was shocked at the result of his own audacity. The man shrank and shrivelled in terror, the sweat poured down a face of ashy white, and he held up his hands before him.

It was otherwise, however, when within three weeks, three more gentlemen, one of them a nobleman, and the two others men of good position and ample means, perished miserably in the almost precisely the same manner. Lord Swanleigh was found one morning in his dressing-room, hanging from a peg affixed to the wall, and Mr. Collier-Stuart and Mr. Herries had chosen to die as Lord Argentine.

They were purged as if they had passed through the Furnace of the Sages governed with Wisdom that the alchemists know. They spoke without much difficulty of what they had seen, or had seemed to see, with their eyes, but hardly at all of what their hearts had known when for a moment the glory of the fiery rose had been about them.

Arthur Machen had an a substantial career as a novelist and storyteller, but nothing he did in the course of a lifetime made the impact he made in 1890 with The Great God Pan. The tale literally caused a furor in London -- for it seemed to many readers to bring horror and prurient sexuality together in a way that echoed their moment, foreshadowing the decadence of our own. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

Lucian Taylor is damned - either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. The portrait of a doomed artist - a man not unlike Machen himself.

Der immer wieder vergessene, immer wieder zu entdeckende walisische Schriftsteller Arthur Machen (sprich: "Mecken") hat ein umfangreiches Werk hinterlassen, das Texte von großer Originalität und starkem Reiz umfasst. Sie werden meist in die Kategorie ­­"Horror" eingeordnet ­­- nicht zu Unrecht, und doch gehören sie in einen größeren Kontext. An Machens Werk lässt sich die ästhetische Seite der Mystik studieren. Als Leser wird man nur schwer die überwältigenden Visionen vergessen können, die Landschaft und Literatur Machens Protagonisten zuteil werden lassen, an deren Innerstes sie rühren. Die von Joachim Kalka auf der Grundlage seiner 1992 bis 1995 erschienenen Übersetzung erstellte neue Werkausgabe versammelt die bedeutendsten Erzähltexte Machens. Sie fügt der alten Edition einige neue Texte hinzu.Subskribenten der sechsbändigen Ausgabe wird ein Preisrabatt gewährt.

Der immer wieder vergessene, immer wieder zu entdeckende walisische Schriftsteller Arthur Machen (sprich: "Mecken") hat ein umfangreiches Werk hinterlassen, das Texte von großer Originalität und starkem Reiz umfasst. Sie werden meist in die Kategorie ­­"Horror" eingeordnet ­­- nicht zu Unrecht, und doch gehören sie in einen größeren Kontext. An Machens Werk lässt sich die ästhetische Seite der Mystik studieren. Als Leser wird man nur schwer die überwältigenden Visionen vergessen können, die Landschaft und Literatur Machens Protagonisten zuteil werden lassen, an deren Innerstes sie rühren. Die von Joachim Kalka auf der Grundlage seiner 1992 bis 1995 erschienenen Übersetzung erstellte neue Werkausgabe versammelt die bedeutendsten Erzähltexte Machens. Sie fügt der alten Edition einige neue Texte hinzu.In dem düsteren Schriftstellerroman "Der geheime Glanz" ("The Secret Glory", 1922) hat ­Machen eigene Erinnerungen (u.¿a. an die repressiven Erziehungsmethoden englischer Privatschulen) verarbeitet und zu einer faszinierenden Suche nach dem heiligen Gral gestaltet.Subskribenten der sechsbändigen Ausgabe wird ein Preisrabatt gewährt.

The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction, the first in a planned series of books of occult fiction of many colours, brings together twenty-two tales, dating from 1888-1911, from the occult revival of the British Isles. Including both well-known figures, such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Aleister Crowley, and lesser-known talents, such as Helen Fagg and the mysterious Zuresta, this inaugural volume is sure to bring diversion and illumination to both interested acolyte and erudite mahatma alike. Containing a varied and rich array of stories, about dreams and séances, visionaries and madmen, The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction, edited by Brendan Connell, is an indispensable addition to any library of the supernatural and occult.

Is it fake-news? A First World War fake-news story? The Angels of Mons seem to have been conjured up from Arthur Machen's trench warfare short-story The Bowmen. In his introduction to this collection of four short stories Machen wonders how his fictional work could have become such a fantastical and widely believed legend... "This affair of The Bowmen has been such an odd one from first to last, so many queer complications have entered into it, there have been so many and so divers currents and cross-currents of rumour and speculation concerning it, that I honestly do not know where to begin. I propose, then, to solve the difficulty by apologising for beginning at all."

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