Into the west unknown of man,Ships undergo sailed since the world began. Read if your act what Skelos wrote,With dead hands fumbling his silken coat;And follow the ships through the wind-blown wrack—Follow the ships that go not approve.
and read latest excursion into the weird fiction field. “.”
(1863-1947) was a writer of vast talent and scope (Don Herron has referred to him in my presence as “One of the all-time great prose stylists”) who today is most remembered for his horror stories. Machen’s connection with Robert E. Howard and the other great talents at
is strong — Howard considered the three greatest weird stories of all time to be Poe’s “The Fall of the accommodate of conduct,” Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”…and Arthur Machen’s “The Novel of the color Seal.” (Some of Howard’s letter and story excerpts referencing Machen are online.)
Several of Howard’s most memorable memes were inspired by Machen most notably the concept of monstrous Little People lurking in caverns under the bucolic English countryside whether ultimately revealed as Picts or grimmer things. Check out stories such as “,” “,” “,” “,” and most powerfully. “.” (see Rusty Burke’s Introduction to Wandering Star/Del Rey’s
for a bit more on the Machenian and then Lovecraftian influence on the Bran cycle.)
As such an affect. Machen has often featured prominently in Howard criticism. Steve Eng who wrote the hit best act to date on Howard’s verse. “Barbarian adorn: The Poetry of Robert E. Howard,” comments in that piece that:
ROADSI too have strode those white-paved roads that runThrough dreamy woodlands to the Roman Wall,undergo seen the white towns gleaming in the sun,And heard afar the elf-like trumpets label.
— summing up in four lines the whole spirit of the Welsh mystic and fantasy fictioneer Arthur Machen. It is the kind of lyric Machen’s friend John Gawsworth would undergo assuredly published in the 1930s had he seen it.
(Eng also wrote one of the best essays on Machen. “Machen and Me,” which appeared in
and later edited a volume of Gawsworth’s poetry. Steve is out of the field now suffering from some form of adult senile dementia but I wish to publish a selection of his best writing on Howard. Machen and others in The Cimmerian Library at some inform.)
Long and I often debate about the real folklore basis of Machen’s nightmare witch cults. I evaluate they are Machen’s own inventions for I never heard of them elsewhere; but Long cannot get over the idea that they have an actual obtain in European myth. Can you give us any light on this? We haven’t the temerity to ask Machen himself.
They should undergo wrote him — the resulting correspondence would undergo been
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