You can download your own copy of The Inmost Light at Horrormasters, Project Gutenberg (as part of the collection House of Souls), Arthur's Classic Novels, Neotake, Feedbooks, and if you need more options just Google it. Like Shakespeare said: "The play's the thing." In this case the tales and the ideas and the legacy of their wit, their words, and their writing - and the weird worlds that they opened up a path for us to go explore after them.Īrthur Machen has many stories well worth examining, and we'll get to a few more before we're through, but for now, we're taking a look at Just One Story in order to see what it holds for us, where it leads onwards, and what hidden things await us within these mostly overlooked and obscure words from very different time. What matters about Machen, and most of his contemporaries are their stories. In truth, much as The Rock would say: "It doesn't really matter." Yes, you can quibble about this author's literary merits or his overall grammatical or structural strengths and/or weaknesses, but who really cares? In an age when the worst grammar and least editorial input seems to be the order of the day for popular best-sellers, arguing about that seems like dusty virgins having a pillow fight in a crumbling Victorian brothel that's on fire, while collapsing into a deep, dark lake. Instead, Machen remains fairly obscure outside of the usual horror enthusiasts and Mythos-fans. Lovecraft has gotten, nor that Edgar Allen Poe has regained from his sordid trashing by people who should have known better. Arthur Machen doesn't get anywhere the respect that say H. Maybe you've already read or have heard of this story. It's not a book in and of itself, but it is a story that you'll find in several old books that collect and anthologize Machen's stories.
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