Arthur Machen, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies

Related Category: English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies

Arthur Machen[mak´un] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1947, English author, b. Wales. He wrote a series of semiautobiographical fantasies, notably The Hill of Dreams (1907) and Far Off Things (1922), and tales of horror and the supernatural. Machen achieved transient fame during World War I with "The Bowman," a tale relating how St. George and his ghostly archers rescue the British army and slaughter the Germans.

See his autobiography, ed. by M. Bishop (1951); biography by W. D. Sweetser (1964).