The Terror & Other Tales: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 3

Softcover, englisch - #97815688-21.757 - The Terror & Other Tales: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 3 (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) - In a career that spanned more than six decades, Arthur Machen produced some of the most evocative weird fiction in all literary history. Written with impeccably mellifluous prose, infused with a powerful mystical vision, and imbued with a wonder and terror that their author felt with every fibre of his being, his novels and tales will survive when works of far greater technical accomplishment fall by the wayside. Flawed as some of them are by certain crotchets – especially a furious hostility to science and secularism – this disfigure Machen’s own philosophy, they are nonetheless as effective as they are because they echo the sincere beliefs of their author, whose eternal quest to preserve the mystery of the universe in an age of materialism is one to which we can all respond.