Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan [1890; 1894] has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror.

He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.

Machen's literary significance is substantial; his stories have been translated into many languages and reprinted in short story anthologies countless times. Machen's works was a significant part of the late Victorian revival of the gothic novel and the decadent movement of the 1890s, bearing direct comparison to the themes found in contemporary works like Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Table of Contents -

The Great God Pan

The Inmost Light

The Shining Pyramid

The Three Impostors

Dreads and Drolls

The White People

The Novel of the Black Seal

The Red Hand

The Terror

The Secret Glory

The House of Souls

The Hill of Dreams

Hieroglyphics

The Great Return

Far Off Things

The Angels of Mons, The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War