Arthur Machen (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Arthur Machen (MAHK-ehn), the Welsh writer of the bizarre and supernatural, was born Arthur Llewellyn Jones at Caerleon-on-Usk, Monmouthshire; he took his mother’s maiden name in childhood. The sole child of a High Church clergyman, he was an introspective, imaginative, almost mystical boy, forced to spend most of his time by himself. He was educated in private schools, but the family’s poverty kept him from achieving a first-class education. In his early reading he came under the influence of Thomas De Quincey and various medieval writers, and traces of that interest show in his...
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