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The Bowmen and other Legends of the War, published by Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent in 1915. Machen's patriotic fantasy about supernatural agents saving British soldiers at the front, created a sensation, and was believed by many to be an actual event. |
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An extremely rare copy of "The Angel of Mons Waltz," sheet music. One of the many publications inspired by Machen's bowmen story. Thanks to Ray Russell of Tartarus Press and The Friends of Arthur Machen for this jewel. |
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Arthur Machem The Three Impostors, John Lane, The Bodley Head (1895), first edition. You will probably never see one in this condition again, so take a long hard look. |
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Arthur Machen: Le Grand Dieu Pan. Emil-Paul Freres, Paris, (n.d., but probably 1963)., This is a reprint or reissue ot the tranlstion of The Great God Pan by Paul-Jean Toulet, first published by Emil-Paul in 1938. This edition has the original advertising band.which ties in with Pauwels and Bergier's Le Matin Des Magicians (1960) . Paul-Jean Toulet translated Machen's book in 1899, but had trouble getting it published in book form. Toulet also engaged engaged in a rather interesting series of letters with Machen Pauwels and Bergier's book was probably responsible for rekindling interest in Machen's work in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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Arthur Machen: The House of Souls. Grant Richards, 1923, Second Edition.. The dust jacket is just plain ugly, but the designs on the boards by the great illustrator Sidney Sime are just wonderful. |
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I love that little grinning serpent demon, er, thingie on the spine. Here is a better look at it. Ain't computers great? |
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Weird Tales, October 1935, featuring the Machen Story "The Lost Club." The cover is by the great Margret Brundage, showing a babe wearing pumps in the jungle. What else could you ask for? |
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Famous Fantastic Mysteries , February 1950, featuring the Machen story. "The Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell." |
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Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1946, featuring the Machen story, "The Novel of the Black Seal." The cover is by Lawrence, a FFM regular. |
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Arthur Machen:, The Great God Pan. Editions for the Armed Services, Inc. (no date, but probably 1943). In case the guys winning World War II were not seeing enough real horror, enough they could pull this out of their back packs. One of the rarest of the Armed Services Editions. |
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Arthur: Machen, Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, Panther Books (U.K.) 1963. British paperback reprint of the classic 1948 ominbus of Machen's tales. |
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Arthur Machen, Holy Terrors, . Penguin Books, (U.K) , no date, but 1946.. A scarce issue reprinting some of Machen's early works. It has the distinction of being the last of Machen's books published in his life time. |
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Arthur Machen, The Novel of the Black Powder, and Other Stories, Corgi Books (U.K.) 1965 It also contains "A Fragment of a Life," and "The Great God Pan." I believe this cover was inspired by a scene or a still from Roger Corman's film Tales of Terror (1962), shown here on the Lancer tie-in paperback (1962). What do you think? |
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