Arthur MacHen - Böcker

"Trots att skräck och ett vämjeligt illamående tilltog inom mig, och en chockerande stank av förruttnelse följde med varje andetag, förblev jag orubblig. Jag välsignades sedan, eller fördömdes - jag törs inte säga vilket - av att se det som fanns ...

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Arthur Machens Drömmarnas berg har kallats såväl den vackraste som den mest dekadenta bok som har skrivits på det engelska språket. Det här är berättelsen om den unge Lucian Taylor som hemsöks av underliga drömmar och visioner efter att ha vistats...

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Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nin...

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"Jag hade sneglat upp mot fönstret till min brors arbetsrum, och i det ögonblicket var persiennen dragen åt sidan, och någonting som var vid liv stirrade ut över omvärlden. Nej, jag kan inte avgöra om jag såg ett ansikte eller något av mänsklig sk...

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Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of w...

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Mullret från första världskriget hörs i fjärran, men livet på Wales landsbygd lunkar vidare tämligen ostört. Det som börjar oroa folket är snarare en lång rad gåtfulla mord och dödsfall. En hel familj hittas massakrerad. Något skrämmer upp en floc...

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Alongside M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood and Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen wrote powerful, chilling and thought-provoking stories. His supernatural tales draw their power from the long nights and dark lanes of the Welsh countryside th...

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Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle...Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nine...

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Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle...Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nine...

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Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nin...

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Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of w...

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'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immora...

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'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immora...

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An inspiring story of divine intervention, "e;The Bowmen"e; tells of the miraculous appearance of angels at World War I's Battle of Mons and their rescue of British soldiers. An instant bestseller upon its 1914 publication, the book includ...

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"Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen." - H. P. Lovecraft Arthur Machen (1863¿1947), Welsh novelist and essayist, is considered one of the most important and influential writers of his t...

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"Of Mr. Machen's horror-tales the most famous is perhaps 'The Great God Pan' (1894) which tells of a singular and terrible experiment and its consequences."-H. P. Lovecraft

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