With its suggestive visions of decadent sexuality, the work scandalized Victorian London. In "The Great God Pan," Arthur Machen delivers a tense atmospheric story about a string of mysterious suicides. Further, Machen's name often crops up in the writings of theorists and practitioners of psychogeography, a school of thought and literature which explores the hidden links between the landscape and the mind. Machen is also a key figure in the development of pulp magazine fiction (e.g., Weird Tales), a line of ancestry that leads directly to today's popular graphic novels. Yeats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as Paul Bowles and Jorge Luis Borges are just a few of the literary notables who are counted among his admirers. Waite - his writing transcends the genre of supernatural horror. While displaying a preoccupation with pagan themes and matters of the occult - an interest he shared with his close friend, the distinguished scholar A. LovecraftĪrthur Machen (1863–1947), Welsh novelist and essayist, is considered one of the most important and influential writers of his time. "Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen." - H.
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