Arthur Machen was a Welsh man of letters who wrote his most famous work in the late 1890s and early 1900s. While his body of work is wide, he’s perhaps best known for his supernaturally-flavored proto-horror short stories.
The Great God Pan—perhaps his most famous work—along with “The Inmost Light” and
The White People deeply influenced later writers like
H. P. Lovecraft. Stephen King has gone so far as to call
The Great God Pan “maybe the best [horror story] in the English language.”
Besides his horror short stories, Machen also wrote a handful of post World War I supernatural shorts. One of these, “The Bowmen,” was published in..." data-title="Книга Short Fiction">