In his later years, he turned toward mystical fantasy, but in the 1890s, Machen wrote some of the most highly regarded weird horror tales of all-time, including The Great God Pan, “The Inmost Light,” “The Shining Pyramid,” “The Red Hand,” and “The White People.” I love and can happily recommend them all, but for my money, none of Machen’s works is quite so resonant or so terrifying as his 1895 novel The Three Impostors. Most modern practitioners of the genre, from Neil Gaiman to Clive Barker to Stephen King to director Guillermo del Toro, have read and admire his work. Ask anyone well-read in horror or weird fiction, however, and odds are they’ve heard of him. Arthur Machen isn’t exactly a household name.
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