Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Llewellyn Jones
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Collected works
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—magical world
- Time of Work: Near the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century
- Setting: Great Britain, often London and Wales
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Twentieth century, Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Other worlds, London, Horror, Great Britain, Wales or Welsh people
- Locales: London, England, Great Britain, Wales
The Plot
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural collects much of Welsh author Arthur Machen’s most important fiction. Besides the short novels The Great God Pan (1894) and The Terror (1917), it includes his best stories as well as two self-contained sections of his story cycle The Three Impostors: Or, The Trans-mutations (1895). Although the works it contains were written over a period of more than forty years, and although their emphases vary, their central concerns are consistent.
Machen’s fiction suggests the existence of a universe lying...
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